The Works of Sir William Jones, Volumen7J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... gift of the highest importance . " He was the fame , adds my learned friend , with MENES , whom the Egyptians represented as their first king and principal benefactor , who first sacrificed to the gods , and brought about a great change ...
... gift of the highest importance . " He was the fame , adds my learned friend , with MENES , whom the Egyptians represented as their first king and principal benefactor , who first sacrificed to the gods , and brought about a great change ...
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... gifts : < 6 89. To defend the people , to give alms , to ' facrifice , to read the Véda , to fhun the allure- · ments of fenfual gratification , are in few words the duties of a Chhatriya : 90. To keep herds of cattle , to bestow lar ...
... gifts : < 6 89. To defend the people , to give alms , to ' facrifice , to read the Véda , to fhun the allure- · ments of fenfual gratification , are in few words the duties of a Chhatriya : 90. To keep herds of cattle , to bestow lar ...
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... gift to his preceptor before his return home ; but when , by his tutor's per- miffion , he is going to perform the ceremony on his return , let him give the venerable man ' fome valuable thing to the best of his power ; 246. A field ...
... gift to his preceptor before his return home ; but when , by his tutor's per- miffion , he is going to perform the ceremony on his return , let him give the venerable man ' fome valuable thing to the best of his power ; 246. A field ...
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... gift of the Véda , let him fit on an elegant bed , decked ' with a garland of flowers ; and let his father ' honour him , before his nuptials , with a present • of a cow . 4. Let the twice born man , having obtained the confent of his ...
... gift of the Véda , let him fit on an elegant bed , decked ' with a garland of flowers ; and let his father ' honour him , before his nuptials , with a present • of a cow . 4. Let the twice born man , having obtained the confent of his ...
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... a girl is made cap- tive by her lover , after a victory over her kinf 6 6 men , are permitted by law . 27 . ' The gift of a daughter , clothed only with · a fingle robe , to a man learned in ON THE SECOND ORDER . 157.
... a girl is made cap- tive by her lover , after a victory over her kinf 6 6 men , are permitted by law . 27 . ' The gift of a daughter , clothed only with · a fingle robe , to a man learned in ON THE SECOND ORDER . 157.
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acts againſt alſo anceſtors anchorite becauſe beſt BHRIGU birth BRAHMA Bráhmen buſineſs cafe caufe cauſe ceremony claffes clafs clarified butter claſs confidered conftantly crime declared defire deſtroy diſcharge divine duty facraments facred facrifice fages falfe falute fame father fcripture feek fervants fervile feven fhall fhould fince fire firft firſt flain foldier fome fpirit fráddha fruit ftudent fubfiftence fubject fuch fupport fupreme give giver gods higheſt himſelf Hindu holy honour houſe hundred panas huſband increaſe intereft juft juſt juſtice learned lefs let the king manes meaſures MENU moſt muft muſt night obfequies obferve oblation occafions offence ordained perfon perform petit jury pleaſure preceptor prefent preferved preſcribed prieſt publick puniſhment purified purpoſe read the Véda reaſon reſpect ſeveral ſhall ſuch Súdra theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tion triliteral twiceborn underſtand uſed Veda wealth whofe whoſe wife witneſs woman
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Página 96 - From THAT WHICH is, the first cause, not the object of sense, existing everywhere in substance, not existing to our perception, without beginning or end, was produced the divine male, famed in all worlds under the appellation of BRAHMA'.
Página 79 - ... system of duties, religious and civil, and of law in all its branches, which the Hindus firmly believe to have been promulged in the beginning of time by MENU, son or grandson of BRAHMA', or, in plain language, the first of created beings, and not the oldest only, but the holiest, of legislators...
Página 116 - ... 14. But, when there are two sacred texts, apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcilable ; 15. Thus in the Veda are these texts : " let the sacrifice be when the sun has arisen...
Página 91 - The work, now presented to the European world, contains abundance of curious matter extremely interesting both to speculative lawyers and antiquaries, with many beauties, which need not be pointed out, and with many blemishes, which cannot be justified or palliated. It is a system of despotism and priestcraft, both indeed limited by law, but artfully conspiring to give mutual support...
Página 296 - A king, even though a child, must not be treated lightly, from an idea that he is a mere mortal: no, he is a powerful divinity, who appears in a human shape.
Página 84 - Apis; and, though we should be constantly on our guard against the delusion of etymological conjecture, yet we cannot but admit that MINOS and MNEUES, or Mneuis, have only Greek terminations, but that the crude noun is composed of the same radical letters both in Greek and in Sanscrit. ' That APIS and MNEUIS, ' says the Analyst of ancient Mythology, ' were both representations of some per...
Página 128 - The act of repeating his Holy Name is ten times better than the appointed sacrifice ; an hundred times better when it is heard by no man ; and a thousand times better when it is purely mental : 86.
Página 111 - The Brahman who studies this book, having performed sacred rites, is perpetually free from offence in thought, in word and in deed. " He confers purity on his living family, on his ancestors, and on his descendants as far as the seventh person, and he alone deserves to possess this whole earth.
Página 393 - SHOULD a wife, proud of her family and the great qualities of her kinsmen, actually violate the duty, which she owes to her lord, let the king condemn her to be devoured by dogs in a place much frequented ; 372.