[129] क्षानं उत्तमं The supreme Brahme, in the most extensive acceptation, is with the Hindus a neuter noun (Brahme or Brahma); and the same term (Nom. Brahmá), is one of the three gods who constitute one person. [130] माया. [131] जीवात्मा The vital principle or spirit. [132] The text says: “on that account to be liberated from it,” they use the word نفس _nafs_ probably نا فساد _na fesad_, “no corruption:” this of course applies to the Persian, but not to the Sanskrit term. [133] जागरावस्था. [134] स्वप्नावास्था state of dreaming applied especially to life, or ignorance of worldly illusion. [135] सुस्वप्नावस्था The fantastical conceptions of the Hindus about the states or conditions of the embodied soul are of course not always expressed in the same manner. “They are chiefly three: waking, dreaming, and profound sleep; to which may be added for a fourth, that of death; and for a fifth, that of trance, swoon, or stupor, which is intermediate between profound sleep and death (as it were half-dead), as dreaming is between waking and profound sleep. In that middle state of dreaming, there is a fanciful course of events, an illusory creation, which however testifies the existence of a conscious soul. In profound sleep, the soul has retired to the supreme one by the route of the arteries of the pericardium” (_Colebrooke on the Philosophy of the Hindus, Transact. of the R. A. S. of Great Brit. and Irel._, vol. II. part I. p. 25). [136] The author uses here and elsewhere the Arabic word غفلت _ghafalat_, which, besides the significations enumerated in the dictionary, of “neglect, indolence, imprudence, forgetfulness, inadvertency,” etc., seems to have also that of ignorance, illusion; all these are comprehended in the Sanskrit word _maya_, to render which was, I can scarce doubt, the intention of the author. [137] ज्ञानी _jnani_. [138] तबोवस्था “the moving state,” from _tarba_, “to move.” This denomination does not commonly occur in the writings of the Vedantists about this subject. [139] मुक्ति “final beatitude.” [140] स्वामिप्रेमा. [141] सारप्रेमा. [142] स्वायुक्ति. [143] परमात्मा. [144] ज्ञानम उत्तमं [145] नमः. [146] योगी a devotee, an ascetic in general. [147] मन्त्रः [148] होमः [149] दण्डवत् [150] Perhaps _Bhartrihari_. [151] देवार्चक. [152] _Kachmir_, a province of North Hindostan, situated principally between the 34h and 35th degree of north latitude.――(_Hamilton’s E. India Gazeteer._)