Über das Gesetzbuch des Manu

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F. Dümmler, 1863 - Hindu law - 122 pages
 

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Page 107 - First, the marriage ceremonies ; then the ceremonies which are performed at the conception of a child, at various periods before his birth, at the time of his birth, the ceremony of naming the child, of carrying him out to see the sun, of feeding him, of cutting his hair, and, lastly, of investing him as a student and sending him to a Guru, under whose care he is to study the sacred writings...
Page 3 - Über die Grundlagen der Indischen Philosophie und deren Zusammenhang mit den Philosophemen der westlichen Völker...
Page 97 - VA'SISHT'HA, who is often mentioned in the laws of MENU, and once as contemporary with the divine BHRIGU himself; but the character of BHRIGU, and the whole dramatical arrangement of the book before us, are clearly fictitious and ornamental, with a design, too common among ancient lawgivers, of stamping authority on the work by the introduction of supernatural personages...
Page 89 - They affirm the actual existence of external objects no less than of internal sensations. The exterior objects to be known by immediate perception. 4. Vaibhashikas, who agree with the latter, except that they contend for a mediate apprehension of exterior objects, through images, or resembling forms, represented to the intellect. CME Vol. I. pp.
Page 18 - And before them both he produced the great principle of the soul, or first expansion of the divine idea ; and all vital forms endued with the three qualities of goodness, passion, and darkness, and the five perceptions of sense, and the five organs of sensation.
Page 37 - Wort brahma knüpft sich durch den Lauf dreier Jahrtausende die Religionsentwicklung Indiens. Man könnte diesen Begriff das Maass nennen , an welchem der Fortschritt des auf das Göttliche .gerichteten Bewusstseyns sich messen lässt, indem er auf jeder neuen Stufe desselben eine andere Gestalt gewonnen, aber immer dasjenige in sich beschlossen hat, was die höchste geistige Errungenschaft des Volkes war.
Page 68 - Vedantin acquires increased significance.175 Sankhya is a peculiar form. It comes from sankhya, and designates the philosophy which is based on synthetic ( sam ) reasoning ( khya ). Its very name shows that it is the counterpart, as it were, of Nyaya ( ni aya ), or the philosophy founded on
Page 98 - SUMATI, while the gods of the lower heaven, and the hand of celestial musicians, are engaged in studying the primary code, beginning with the fifth verse, a little varied, of the work now extant on earth; but that nothing remains of NA'RED'S abridgement, except an elegant epitome of the ninth original title on the administration of justice.
Page 107 - ... him to a Guru, under whose care he is to study the sacred writings It is only after he has served his apprenticeship and grown up to manhood that he is allowed to marry, to light the sacrificial fire for himself, to choose his priests, and to perform year after year the solemn sacrifices prescribed by Smr'iti and S'ruti.
Page 19 - Tan matra is a compound of tad, 'that,' and mdtra, ' alone ;' implying, that in which its own peculiar property resides, without any change or variety : so VACHESPATI explains the text, ' Sound and the rest ; the subtile rudiments ; for the properties of agreeable, &c. do not belong to them, they have no quality which is fit for (mortal) fruition. This is the meaning of the word mdtra^.

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