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been killed by a mere child. He is the gladdener of his 'family and of his people, like the Moon in the vault of the sky,
'Interpreters of dreams have also fore-told "This child will become a Vasudéva,-a lord of halt the territory of Bharata kṣétra; O my good friend! you are a lion among lower animals. He is a lion among human beings What disrespect or ill fame is there in a lion killing a lion?" Having thus become internally tranquil by peacefully hearing the honey-like or nectar-like words of the charioteer, the lion after death, was born as a Naraka in hellish regions, and the charioteer, in course of time, will become the first Ganadhara, named Gautama, of Śramana Bhagavan Mahāvīra, when the soul of Tripristha Vasudeva becomes a Tirthankara
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He was thoroughly conversant with the fourteen varieties of Knowledge (1-6 Angăni fa, The six Supplements of the Védas, 7-10 Vèdah at:, The Four Vèdās, 11. Mīmāmsă afar The designation of a philosophical system which is divided into two distinct branches. The former called Purva or Karma Mīmāmsa पूर्व or कर्म मीमांसा, and founded by Jaimini जैमिनि, is chiefly concerned with the correct interpretation of Vèdic ritual; the latter, called Uttara-Brahma or Śâririka Mīmāmsā
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-- शारीरिक मीमांसा but best known under the name of Vedanta वेदान्त and founded by Bādar āyana बादरायण is a pantheist system of discussing chiefly the nature of Brahman or the Universal Soul. 12. Nyaya ar the Nyaya System of Philosophy 13 Dharma Sastra a Discourses on Virtue or Duty, and 14 Puřāņa gum Name of eighteen legendary works treating chiefly of Cosmogony and Divine Genealogy. These fourteen varieties of Vidya faen Knowledge are mentioned in the following verse
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