Handbook of History of Religions

SR No.: 007634
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Edward Washburn
Publisher: Sanmati Tirth Prakashan Pune
Total Pages: 678
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 2 MB

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son, grandson, and to his father and grandfather (vi. 1. 2. 13). On the other hand, it was the custom of the Indian kings in later ages to assume the names of their prosperous grandfathers (JRAS. iv. 85).]
[Footnote 51: Were it not for the first clause it would be more natural to render the original 'The gods are truth alone, and men are untruth.']
[Footnote 52: In Çat. Br. ii. 4. 2. 5-6 it is said that the Father-god gives certain rules of eating to gods, Manes, men, and beasts: "Neither gods, Manes, nor beasts transgress the Father's law, only some men do."]
[Footnote 53: Çat. Br. ii. 5. 2. 20. Varuna seizes on her paramour, when she confesses. TI.ajitt. Br. i. 6. 5. 2. The guilt confessed becomes less "because it thereby becomes truth" (right).]
[Footnote 54: See Çat. Br.. ii. 4. 2. 6; 4. 1. 14; 1. 3. 9; 3. 1. 28: "Who knows man's morrow? Then let one not procrastinate." "Today is self, this alone is certain, uncertain is the morrow."]
[Footnote 55: Some little rules are interesting. The Pythagorean abstinence from m[=a][s]=a]s, beans, for instance, is enjoined; though this rule is opposed by Barku V[=a]rshna, Çat. Br. i. 1. 1. 10, on the ground that no offering to the gods is made of beans; "hence he said 'cook beans for me."]
[Footnote 56: Animals may represent gods. "The bull is a form of Indra," and so if the bull can be made to roar (Çat. Br. ii. 5. 3. 18), then one may know that Indra is come to the sacrifice. "Man is born into (whatever) world is made (by his acts in a previous existence)," is a short formula (Çat. Br.. vi. 2. 2. 27), which represents the karma doctrine in its essential