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Página iv
It will easily be understood by persons accustomed to the preparation of works for
the press , that a rule like this would be occasionally forgotten . And indeed it has
sometimes , though rarely , occurred , that passages have been printed in ...
It will easily be understood by persons accustomed to the preparation of works for
the press , that a rule like this would be occasionally forgotten . And indeed it has
sometimes , though rarely , occurred , that passages have been printed in ...
Página xiv
If Minos , the son of JUPITER , whom the Cretans , from national vanity , might
have made a native of their own island , was really the same person with Menu ,
the son of BRAHMA ' , we have the good fortune to restore , by means of Indian ...
If Minos , the son of JUPITER , whom the Cretans , from national vanity , might
have made a native of their own island , was really the same person with Menu ,
the son of BRAHMA ' , we have the good fortune to restore , by means of Indian ...
Página xv
Da'Ra Shucu'r was persuaded , and not without sound reason , that the first Menu
of the Bráhmens could be no other person than the progenitor of mankind , to
whom Jews , Christians , and Muselmáns unite in giving the name of Adam ; but ...
Da'Ra Shucu'r was persuaded , and not without sound reason , that the first Menu
of the Bráhmens could be no other person than the progenitor of mankind , to
whom Jews , Christians , and Muselmáns unite in giving the name of Adam ; but ...
Página xvi
... that Brahma ' taught his laws to Menu in a hundred thousand verses , which
Menu explained to the primitive world in the very words of the book now
translated , where he names himself , after the manner of ancient sages , in the
third person ...
... that Brahma ' taught his laws to Menu in a hundred thousand verses , which
Menu explained to the primitive world in the very words of the book now
translated , where he names himself , after the manner of ancient sages , in the
third person ...
Página xx
yet it swarms with errours , imputable partly to haste , and partly to ignorance :
thus where Menu says , that emissaries are the eyes of a prince , the Persian
phrase makes him ascribe four eyes to the person of a king ; for the word chár ,
which ...
yet it swarms with errours , imputable partly to haste , and partly to ignorance :
thus where Menu says , that emissaries are the eyes of a prince , the Persian
phrase makes him ascribe four eyes to the person of a king ; for the word chár ,
which ...
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Términos y frases comunes
according acts ancestors animals attain attention becomes birth body born Bráhmen brother butter called cattle cause ceremony CHAP child clarified committed considered constantly continually creatures daughter death desire devotion divine duties earth eaten equal father fire five four fruit gain gift give given giver gods grain hand highest holy honour hundred husband keep king knowledge learned let the king live lord manes manner marriage married means Menu mind month mother natural never night oblation obsequies offering ordained perform person preceptor present priest produced punishment pure purified receive religious respect rice rites roots rule sacred sages scripture servile sons spirits student subsistence Súdra texts thing tion touch twice-born Véda VIII virtue virtuous wealth whole wife wise witnesses woman women
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 25 - The names of women should be agreeable, soft, clear, captivating the fancy, auspicious, ending in long vowels, resembling words of benediction.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | English translation Volumen2 de Mānava-dherma-sāstra: Or, the Institutes of Menu, Sir Graves Champney Haughton |
| Autor | Manu (Lawgiver) |
| Editor | Sir Graves Champney Haughton |
| Traducido por | Sir William Jones |
| Editor | Cox and Baylis, 1825 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitalizado | 28 Feb. 2008 |
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