Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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SANATSUGÂTÎYA.
Vidura said : I am born of a Sadra womb, and do not like to say more than what (I have said). But the intelligence of that youth, I believe to be eternal". He who has come of a Brahmana womb, even though he may proclaim a great mystery, does not thereby become liable to the censure of the gods. Therefore do I say this to you.
Dhritarashtra said : Do you, O Vidura! speak to the ancient Sanatana for me, so that there may be a meeting even here, between (myself in) this body (and him).
Vaisampayana . said : (Then) Vidura meditated on that sage whose vows are laudable 8 And he, too, O descendant of Bharata ! knowing of such meditation, made his appearance. And he, too, received him with the ceremonies prescribed in the ordinances. After he had been comfortably seated, and had taken rest, Vidura then spoke to him : *Venerable sir! there is some doubt in Dhritarashtra's mind, which cannot
" I.e., I suppose, never-failing, and such as can deal with all sorts of topics. Sanatkumara, it need scarcely be stated, is the teacher of Narada in the famous dialogue in the Khandogyopanishad, p. 473.
• Vaisampâyana is the narrator of the grand story of which pieces like the present form parts.
· The reading is sometimes different, so as to mean of rigid vows,' as at Gits, p. 61 supra.
• The pronouns here are too numerous. Does he' here refer to Dhritarashtra? Vidura seems more likely, though the express mention of him in the next sentence might be treated as pointing the other way.
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