Hitopadeśa: the Sanskrit text of the first book, or Mitra-lábha : with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically arrangedFrancis Johnson James Madden, 1840 - 153 pagina's |
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Pagina 133 - ... above the horizon, the oblique ascension or the divisions of the equator which rise in £)*>« •succession with each sign in an oblique sphere — also...
Pagina 132 - Daitya, with the tail of a dragon, whose head was severed from his body by VISHNU; but being immortal, the head and tail retained their separate existence, and being transferred to the stellar sphere, became the authors of eclipses ; the first especially, by endeavouring, at various times, to swallow the sun and moon.
Pagina 98 - A spiritual parent, from whom the youth receives the initiatory Mantra or prayer, and who conducts the ceremonies necessary at various seasons of infancy and youth, up to the period of investiture with the characteristic thread or string : this person may be the natural parent or the religious preceptor.
Pagina 104 - The Karnikara. His flowery Tilaka.] The name of a tree ; it also means a mark made with coloured earths or unguents upon the forehead and between the eyebrows, either as an ornament or a sectarial distinction ; the poet intends the word to convey both ideas at once here. In this passage is another comparison of the mango-spray : it is called the lip of Love ; its rouge is the blush of morning, and its darker beautifying powder the clustering bees. From the universal custom of dying the lips, H the...
Pagina 98 - A householder, a man of the second class, or he who after having finished his studies and been invested with the sacred thread, performs the duties of the master of a house, and father of a family ; a peasant, a husbandman.
Pagina 143 - Scripture, science, institutes of religion, law or letters, especially considered as of divine origin or authority ; used singly, it implies works of literature or science in general, and it is therefore customarily connected with some other word to limit its application ; as, / the Vedánta Sastras, or treatises of philosophical theology ; the Dherma Sastras, books of law, &c.
Pagina 100 - А religious or expiatory observance, regulated by the moon's age; diminishing the ,¡ daily consumption of food every day, by ¡ one mouthful, for the dark half of the month, beginning with fifteen at the full moon, until it is reduced to one, at the ' new moon, and then increasing it in like manner during the fortnight of the moon's increase: there are other forms of this penance.
Pagina 141 - A vow. Any meritorious act of devotion, the voluntary or vowed observance or imposition of any penance, austerity, or privation, as fasting, continence, exposure to heat and cold, &c.
Pagina 109 - Virtue, religion, duty, law, moral and religions truth according to the law and the Vedas. Any peculiar or prescribed practice or duty ; thus giving alms, &c., is the dharma of a householder : administering•...