English translationCox and Baylis, 1825 |
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Pàgina xvi
... sacred histories , and the code of MENU , were four works of supreme authority , which ought never to be shaken by arguments merely human . ' It is the general opinion of Pandits , that BRAHMA taught his laws to MENU in a hundred ...
... sacred histories , and the code of MENU , were four works of supreme authority , which ought never to be shaken by arguments merely human . ' It is the general opinion of Pandits , that BRAHMA taught his laws to MENU in a hundred ...
Pàgina xxii
... old religion , and the benefit of those laws , which they have been taught to believe sacred , and which alone they can possibly comprehend . W. JONES . CONTENTS . Chapter Page I. On the Creation ; with xxii THE PREFACE .
... old religion , and the benefit of those laws , which they have been taught to believe sacred , and which alone they can possibly comprehend . W. JONES . CONTENTS . Chapter Page I. On the Creation ; with xxii THE PREFACE .
Pàgina 8
... sacred books , from the state of BRAHMA ' , to that of plants , happen continually in this tremendous world of beings ; a world always tending to decay . 6 51. HE , whose powers are incomprehensible , hav- ing thus created both me and ...
... sacred books , from the state of BRAHMA ' , to that of plants , happen continually in this tremendous world of beings ; a world always tending to decay . 6 51. HE , whose powers are incomprehensible , hav- ing thus created both me and ...
Pàgina 16
... fully explained ' to his disciples , but must be taught by no other man of an inferior class . 104. The Bráhmen who studies this book , having ' performed ' performed sacred rites , is perpetually free from of- 16 ON THE CREATION ; WITH A ...
... fully explained ' to his disciples , but must be taught by no other man of an inferior class . 104. The Bráhmen who studies this book , having ' performed ' performed sacred rites , is perpetually free from of- 16 ON THE CREATION ; WITH A ...
Pàgina 17
... sacred scripture , and in the codes of divine legislators : let every man , therefore , of the three principal classes , who has a due reverence for the supreme spirit which dwells in him , diligently ' and constantly observe immemorial ...
... sacred scripture , and in the codes of divine legislators : let every man , therefore , of the three principal classes , who has a due reverence for the supreme spirit which dwells in him , diligently ' and constantly observe immemorial ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
ablution acts ancestors anchorets animals Asuras attain bathe beatitude begotten BHRIGU birth body born Bráh BRAHMA Bráhmen brother called cattle ceremony CHAP child clarified butter considered constantly creatures Cshatriya damsel daughter death declared deities Dévas divine duties earth eaten elephantiasis equal exalted expiation father flesh flesh-meat fruit Gandharvas gayatrì gift giver gods grain guest holy fire holy texts honour house-keeper hundred panas husband impure INDRA kinsmen learned let the king live lord manes marriage married MENU mother night nuptial oblations to fire obsequies offence offering ordained paternal penance perform person Pitris preceptor priest publick punishment pure purified read the Véda receive religious rice rites roots rule sacraments sacred sacrifice sages scripture servile class sons spirits sráddha subsistence Súdra thing tion triliteral twice-born Upanishads Vaisya VARUNA Veda VIII virtue virtuous wealth whole wife woman women YAMA
Passatges populars
Pàgina 60 - Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness.
Pàgina 2 - He whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even He, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Pàgina 32 - BRAHMA' milked out, as it were, from the three Vedas, the letter A, the letter U, and the letter M, which form by their coalition the triliteral monosyllable, together with three mysterious words, bhur, bhuvah, swer, or earth, sky, heaven : 77.
Pàgina 168 - Let her emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. "Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women as were devoted to one only husband.
Pàgina 3 - In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the Creator, at the close of which, by his thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself. " 13. And from its two divisions he framed the heaven abate and the earth beneath : in the midst he placed the subtile ether, the eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of waters.
Pàgina 168 - But, a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord.
Pàgina 25 - The names of women should be agreeable, soft, clear, captivating the fancy, auspicious, ending in long vowels, resembling words of benediction.
Pàgina 75 - Grass and earth to sit on, water to wash the feet, and, fourthly, affectionate speech are at no time deficient in the mansions of the good, although they may be indigent.
Pàgina 110 - Brahman, by a pot of clarified butter, or of honey, ' by a place where four ways meet, and by large trees ' well known in the district, let him pass with his right
Pàgina 183 - A mansion infested by age and by sorrow, the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness,* and incapable of standing long ; such a mansion of the vital soul let its occupier always cheerfully quit : 78. As a tree leaves the bank of a river, when it falls in, or as a bird leaves the branch of a tree at his pleasure, thus he, who leaves his body by necessity or by legal choice, is delivered from the ravening shark, or crocodile, of the world.