Essays on the Religion and Philosophy of the HindusWilliams and Norgate, 1858 - 325 páginas |
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Essays on the religion and philosophy of the Hindus. A new ed Henry-Thomas Colebrooke Vista completa - 1858 |
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abode according affirmed ancient ANGIRAS atoms attained Bhash body Brahmana Brahme bride bridegroom BUDDHA called CAPILA cause ceremony chapter cited clarified butter classes commentary commentator consecrated consists cusa grass Darśana deceased deities denominated divine doctrine earth efficacious elements entitled essay eternal ether fire five following prayer fourth age funeral Gayatri gloss gods hand heaven Hindus holy hymns Ibid immortal Indian INDRA JAIMINI Jainas Jina Jyotish king knowledge lecture likewise meditation MENU Méru Mimánsá moon notion Nyaya objects oblation offered organs orthodox passage PATANJALI performed person PRAJAPATI present priest purána qualities recited religious Rigvéda rites Royal Asiatic Society Sác'há sacrifice Salutation Samaveda Sánc'hya SANCARA saying scholia scholiast sect sense solemn soul substance supreme Sútr sútras tantra termed thee thou art tila treatise tribe universe Upanishad Vaisya VARUNA Védánta Védas vessel VISHNU Vrihad worship YAJNYAWALCYA Yajurvéda Yajush
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Página 258 - The term which the Bauddhas, as well as Jainas, more particularly affect, and which, however, is also used by the rest, is nirvana, profound calm. In its ordinary acceptation, as an adjective, it signifies extinct, as a fire which is gone out ; set, as a luminary which has gone down ; defunct, as a saint who has passed away ; its etymology is from vd, to blow as wind, with the preposition nir used in a negative sense : it means calm and unruffled.
Página 18 - Who knows exactly, and who shall in this world declare, whence and why this creation took place ° The gods are subsequent to the production of this world, then who can know whence it proceeded, or whence this varied world arose, or whether it uphold itself or not ? He who in the highest heaven is the ruler of this universe, does indeed know ; but not another one can possess this knowledge.
Página 164 - When separation of the informed soul from its corporeal frame at length takes place, and nature in respect of it ceases, then is absolute and final deliverance accom"plished."|| " Thus," concludes the Carica, " this abstruse knowledge, " adapted to the liberation of soul, wherein the origin, dura• Car.
Página 32 - HE, prior to whom nothing was born, and who became all beings; himself the lord of creatures, with [a body composed of] sixteen members, being delighted by creation, produced the three luminaries [the sun, the moon, and fire], ' To what God should we offer oblations, but to him who made the fluid sky and solid earth, who fixed the solar orb (swar,) and celestial abode (naca), and who framed drops [of rain] in the atmosphere?
Página 78 - Earth ! Sky ! Heaven ! Middle region ! " Place of births ! Mansion of the blessed ! Abode of truth ! " We meditate on the adorable light of the resplendent " generator, which governs our intellects ; which is water, "lustre, savour, immortal faculty of thought, BRAHME,
Página 38 - This blank, therefore, is completed by woman. He approached her; and thence were human beings produced. ' She reflected, doubtingly; " how can he, having produced me from himself, [incestuously] approach me? I will now assume a disguise." She became a cow; and the other became a bull, and approached her; and the issue were kine. She was changed into a mare, and he into a stallion ; one was turned into a female ass, and the other into a male one : thus did he again approach her ; and the one-hoofed...
Página 202 - Each case is examined and determined upon general principles; and from the cases decided the principles may be collected. A well-ordered arrangement of them would constitute the philosophy of the law : and this is, in truth, what has been attempted in the Mimansa.
Página 133 - and loyal to th'y husband ; be fortunate in cattle, amiable in " thy mind, and beautiful in thy person ; be mother of valiant " sons ; be fond of delights ; be cheerful, and bring prosperity " to our bipeds and quadrupeds.
Página 68 - The real doctrine of the whole Indian scripture is the unity of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended; and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars, and planets, as gods.
Página 83 - He rises, wonderful, the eye of the sun, of water, and of fire, collective power of gods; he fills heaven, earth, and sky, with his luminous net; he is the soul of all which is fixed or locomotive." 3d. "That eye, supremely beneficial, rises pure from the east; may we see him a hundred years; may we live a hundred years; may we hear a hundred years." 4th. "May we, preserved by the divine power, contemplating heaven above the region of darkness, approach the deity, most splendid of luminaries.