The Satakas of BhartrihariThis is Volume XI of fourteen in the India: Language and Literature Oriental series. First published in 1886, of the three ?atakas or centuries of couplets ascribed to Bhart?ihari, the Nîti and Yairâgya ?atakas alone are included in the following pages. |
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Page vii
... the following pages . The Śringâra Śataka contains so many stanzas requiring modification , so many more wholly untranslatable into English , that on due consideration I have decided to omit this collection of stanzas from the volume ...
... the following pages . The Śringâra Śataka contains so many stanzas requiring modification , so many more wholly untranslatable into English , that on due consideration I have decided to omit this collection of stanzas from the volume ...
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... The man who is entirely ignorant is easily guided : the wise man is still more easily led : but even the Supreme Being himself cannot influence the smatterer . 4. A man may forcibly get back a jewel from the teeth of a crocodile : he may ...
... The man who is entirely ignorant is easily guided : the wise man is still more easily led : but even the Supreme Being himself cannot influence the smatterer . 4. A man may forcibly get back a jewel from the teeth of a crocodile : he may ...
Page ix
... at all ? These are questions to which no satisfactory answer has as yet been given . It has been alleged that he was of regal descent , and the brother of Vikramâditya ; that not only did he belong to a reigning family , but that he was ...
... at all ? These are questions to which no satisfactory answer has as yet been given . It has been alleged that he was of regal descent , and the brother of Vikramâditya ; that not only did he belong to a reigning family , but that he was ...
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... the author may have been , there seems a continuity and a uniformity in each of these separate Satakas , as well as a similarity in character between them , which forbid us to accept the ... from the mention of the Purâņas in the Vairagya ...
... the author may have been , there seems a continuity and a uniformity in each of these separate Satakas , as well as a similarity in character between them , which forbid us to accept the ... from the mention of the Purâņas in the Vairagya ...
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... the title of Purâņas by Amara Sinha in the first century B.C. Therefore , to derive any satisfactory conclusion as to dates from the mention of the Purâņas in the Vairagya Sataka , we should require to know what Purâņas are referred to in ...
... the title of Purâņas by Amara Sinha in the first century B.C. Therefore , to derive any satisfactory conclusion as to dates from the mention of the Purâņas in the Vairagya Sataka , we should require to know what Purâņas are referred to in ...
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