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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ANUGÎTA.
talented one! the true conclusion about the past, the present, the future, and so forth, and piety, desire, and wealth”, which is understood by the multitudes of Siddhas, which belongs to olden times, and is eternal, which ought to be apprehended, and understanding which talented men have here attained perfection. Formerly, the sages, Brihaspati, Bharadvåga, Gautama, and likewise Bhargava, Vasishtha, and also Kâsyapa, and Visvamitra, and Atri also, desiring knowledge, met each other, after having travelled over all paths“, and becoming wearied of their own actions. And those twice-born (sages). giving the lead to the old sage Angirasa, saw Brahman, from whom (all) sin has departed, in Brahman's mansion. Having saluted that high-souled one who was sitting at ease, the great sages, full of humility, asked him this momentous (question) concerning the highest good: 'How should one perform good action ? how is one released from sin ? what paths are happy for us? what is truth and what vice? By what action are the two paths southern and northern obtained? (and what is) destruction and emancipation, the birth and death of entities?' What the grandsire said conformably to the scriptures?, 'I. e. the means of arriving at it, Arguna Misra. : The triad, the acquisition of which worldly men aspire to. • He explains how the doctrine belongs to olden times. • J.e. paths of action, Nilakantha. See Sanalsugîtîya, p. 165.
Namely, the Piuriyana and Devayana (Arguna Misra), as to which see K'handogya, p. 341, Kaushilaki, p. 13, and Brihalira. nyaka, p. 1034.
• Nilakantha seems to interpret this to mean the temporary ar.d final dissolutions of the worlds, on which sce, inter alia, Vedania Paribhashå, p. 48.
So Nilakantha. May it not be according to the received tradition ?
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