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SANATSUGÂTÎYA.
CHAPTER I.
Dhritarashtra said: If, O Vidura! there is anything not (yet) said by you in (your) discourse, then do impart it to me who wish to hear, for you have spoken marvellous (things).
Vidura said : O Dhritarashtra! the ancient youth Sanatsugáta, (otherwise called) Sanatana', who declared that death exists not-he, O descendant of Bharata! the best of all talented men, will explain all the doubts of your mind, both those (which are) secret, and those openly declared.
Dhritarashtra said: What, do you not yourself know more about this (subject), that Sanatana should explain (it) to me? Explain (it) yourself, O Vidura ! if there is any remnant of intelligence (left) in you.
So Nilakantha. Sankara says Sanatsugála is Sanatkumara, and the component parts of the name he paraphrases by .born from Brahman.' For Sanatana, see Brihadåranyaka, p. 506, and note 1, p. 141 supra.
• I.c. relating to subjects which may be freely discussed by all, and those which may not. Nilakantha adopts a different reading, which be interprets to mean doctrines cxoteric and esoteric,' c.g. self-resiraini, &c, and the acquisition of mystic power, &co, respectively. The expression doubts of the mind' occurs, however, further on.
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