Hitopadeśa: The Sanskrit text, with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically arrangedW. H. Allen and Company, 1847 - 347 pagina's A handbook for the study of Sanskrit. |
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Hitopadeśa: The Sanskrit text, with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically ... Francis Johnson Volledige weergave - 1847 |
Hitopadeśa: The Sanskrit text, with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically ... Francis Johnson Volledige weergave - 1847 |
Hitopadeśa: The Sanskrit text, with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically ... Francis Johnson Volledige weergave - 1847 |
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Pagina 125 - The mind is lowered, O son, through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. No labour bestowed upon a worthless thing can be productive of fruit; even by a hundred efforts a crane cannot be made to talk like a parrot. As one's life is dear to himself...
Pagina 154 - Rahu, the ascending node, is in mythology a demon 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 to swallow the sun and moon.
Pagina 66 - Gooru is 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."- — WILSON'S Sans.
Pagina 81 - 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.
Pagina 155 - Attached to, intent on , joined to, connected with. sm '1 he rising of a sign, its appearance 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 71 - They are regulated by the moon's age ; and consist in 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 in like manner during the fortnight of the moon's increase : there are other forms of this penance.
Pagina 51 - Hindu chronology, a day and night of Brahmfl, which, according to some, is a period of 4,320,000,000 solar-sidereal years, or years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world, and as many, the interval of its annihilation.
Pagina 24 - ... or paradise. It appears to have been originally typical ; the horse and other animals being simply bound during the performance of certain ceremonies : the actual sacrifice is an introduction of a later period.
Pagina 111 - A wise man should think upon knowledge and wealth as if he were undecaying and immortal. He should practise duty as if he were seized by the hair of his head by Death.
Pagina viii - Nushiravän; — that it was translated from ancient Persic into Arabic in the ninth century; — that it was presently afterwards rendered into Hebrew and Greek ; — and that, from these versions, successive translations were made into all the languages of Modern Europe, until it became familiar, even to youth, under the designation of Pilpay's Fables. In Hindustan, it has continued to retain its popularity to the present day ; where it has served as the substance of the Anväri Sohaili, and Khirad-Afroz...