Hitopadeśa: The Sanskrit text, with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically arrangedW. H. Allen and Company, 1847 - 347 Seiten |
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Seite i - Instruction,' in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims.
Seite 68 - The root is infested by serpents ; the blossoms by bees ; the branches by monkeys ; the summits by bears. In short, there is not a part of the sandal-tree which is not occupied by the vilest impurities' (Hitop., Book II, verse 163).
Seite 28 - A man should leave a single person for the sake of a family ; for the sake of a village he should abandon a family ; a village he should renounce for the sake of a country ; and the whole world for the sake of his soul.5 1 I think it is so.
Seite 57 - SWARNA-REKHA," &c. What means that? said they. The wandering Mendicant then related as follows : I am KAND, \RPA-KETU, son of JIMUTA-KETU, king of Singhala-dwipa (Ceylon.) One day as I was in the pleasure-garden, I heard from a voyaging merchant, that on the fourteenth day of the month, in the midst of the sea which was near, beneath what had the appearance of a Kalpa-tree, there was to be seen, seated on a couch variegated with the lustre of strings of jewels, a certain damsel, as it were the goddess...
Seite 110 - Goat could be got possession of, it would be the height of cleverness, seated themselves at the foot of three trees by the way-side along that Brahman's path. Presently the Brahman was thus accosted by one rogue : O Brahman ! how is it that you carry a dog on your shoulder ? It is not a dog, replied the Brahman : it is a goat for sacrifice.
Seite 7 - He who looks on the wife of another as a mother, on the goods of another as a clod of earth, and on all creatures as himself, is a wise man.
Seite 60 - One day, as she sat diverting herself with the Magistrate's son, the Magistrate himself arrived. When she saw him, she shut his son in the cupboard, and began sporting in the same manner with the Magistrate. In the meantime, the herdsman, her husband, returned from the fold. On seeing him, she said : O Magistrate, do you, taking your staff, and putting on the appearance of anger, depart with haste. This was done; and now the herdsman coming up asked his Wife: Wherefore came the magistrate here...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 175 - Veda, the generic term for the sacred writings or scriptures of the Hindus ; supposed to have been revealed by BRAHMA, and after being preserved by tradition for a considerable period, to have been arranged in the present form by VYÁSA.