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.
(are satisfied) and with his speech restrained, having a mind free from envy', eating little, and depending on the deities. Restraining the external senses, kind, full of forgiveness, preserving his hair and moustache, performing sacrifices, addicted to sacred study, and devoted to veracity and piety, pure in body, always dexterous', always in forests, and concentrated in mind,-a forester whose senses are subdued and who is thus devoted • conquers the worlds.
A householder, or a Brahmakârin, or again a forester, who wishes to apply himself to final emancipation should adopt the best line of conduct. Offering safety to all beings, the sage should become free from all action o, and be agreeable to all beings, kind, and restrained in all his senses. He should make a fire' and feed on the alms (obtained) without asking and without trouble, and which have come spontaneously, in a place free from smoke and where people have already" eaten. One who
II.e. of others for obtaining more, and so forth. Arguna Misra's reading is different, and he renders it to mean, 'one by wbom the rule of life as a Brahmakârin has not been violated.'
• Arguna Misra's reading, one who has cast away (all aliachment to) the body.' Compare as to hair and moustache, Mana VI, 6 seq.
See Gita, p. 137. Here the meaning is probably assiduous in the performance of duties, vows, and so forth.
• I.e. applies himself to his duties.
. Arguna Misra says this means ånandåsramam, but there must be some bad copying here. I take the word as it stands to mean something like the.godlike endowments' at Gitá, p. 114.
See Gitå, pp. 54, 127. The meaning here is probably that of action without egoism. See Gitá, p. 55.
' I.e. Arguna Misna says, 'not at night.' The readings are unsatisfactory. I read kriivå vahnin, but diffidently. Is the allusion 10 the rule at Âpastamba II, 9, 21, 107 Cf. Gautama III, 27.
• Cf. Kaushitaki, p. 32. I.e. to the giver. Cf. Gitá, p. 130. * See Gira, p. 10. " Cl. Manu VI, 56; Gautama III, 15.
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