Institutes of Hindu Law, Or, The Ordinances of Menu [i.e., Manu]: According to the Gloss of Cullúca : Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil |
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... the learned on the banks of the holy river at Cási . His text and interpretation I have almost implicitly followed , though I had myself collated many copies of MENU , and ii xviii PREFACE . among them a manuscript of a very.
... the learned on the banks of the holy river at Cási . His text and interpretation I have almost implicitly followed , though I had myself collated many copies of MENU , and ii xviii PREFACE . among them a manuscript of a very.
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... holy sages . 59. This my son BHRIGU will repeat the divine code to you without omission ; for that sage learned from me to recite the whole of it . 60. BHRIGU , great and wise , having thus been appointed by MENU to promulge his laws ...
... holy sages . 59. This my son BHRIGU will repeat the divine code to you without omission ; for that sage learned from me to recite the whole of it . 60. BHRIGU , great and wise , having thus been appointed by MENU to promulge his laws ...
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... holy sages , well knowing that law is grounded on immemorial custom , embraced , as the root of all piety , good usages long established . 111. THE creation of this universe , the forms of institu- tion and education , with the ...
... holy sages , well knowing that law is grounded on immemorial custom , embraced , as the root of all piety , good usages long established . 111. THE creation of this universe , the forms of institu- tion and education , with the ...
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... holy texts , from his conception even to his funeral pile , has a decided right to study this code ; but no other man whatsoever . 17. Between the two divine rivers Saraswati and Dris- hadwatí , lies the tract of land , which the sages ...
... holy texts , from his conception even to his funeral pile , has a decided right to study this code ; but no other man whatsoever . 17. Between the two divine rivers Saraswati and Dris- hadwatí , lies the tract of land , which the sages ...
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... holy rites on the birth of the child , by the tonsure of his head with a lock of hair left on it , by the ligation of the sacrificial cord , are the seminal and uterine taints of the three classes wholly removed : 28. By studying the ...
... holy rites on the birth of the child , by the tonsure of his head with a lock of hair left on it , by the ligation of the sacrificial cord , are the seminal and uterine taints of the three classes wholly removed : 28. By studying the ...
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Page 2 - ... then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. 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.
Page 5 - Having divided his own substance, the mighty Power became half male, half female, or nature active and passive ; and from that female he produced VIRA'J : 33.
Page 191 - Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared by law to have (in general) no wealth exclusively their own ; the wealth which they may earn is (regularly) acquired for the man to whom they belong.
Page 41 - 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 respec' tively in quantity and in size ; whose body has ex •
Page 114 - 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.
Page 2 - 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...
Page 213 - Should the eldest or youngest of several brothers be deprived of his share by a civil death on his entrance into the fourth order, or should any one of them die, his vested interest in a share shall not wholly be lost ; 212.
Page 107 - Veda, and those, which confer purity. 87. ' Should a Brahmen touch a human bone moist ' with oil, he is purified by bathing; if it be not oily, ' by stroking a cow, or by looking at the sun, having * sprinkled his mouth duly with water.
Page 114 - ... and, like those abstemious men, a virtuous wife ascends to heaven, though she have no child, if, after the decease of her lord, she devote herself to pious austerity...
Page 128 - He, the god of criminal justice; He, the genius of wealth; He, the regent of waters; He, the lord of the firmament. 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 human shape. In his anger, death. He who shows hatred of the king, through delusion of mind, will certainly perish; for speedily will the king apply his heart to that man's destruction.