The Religions of India: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris JastrowHopkins, Edward Washburn
Religion
The Religions of India: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
Hopkins, Edward Washburn
India -- Religion
[Footnote 76: v. 42. 6: _Çiva[h.] çiv[=a]n[=a]m açivo
'çiv[=a]n[=a]m_ (compare xii 187. 27: 'only fools say that
the man is dead'). Dharma (Justice) seems at times to be the
same with Yama. M[=a]ndavya goes to Dharma's _sadana_, home
(compare Yama's _sadana_), just as one goes to Yama's, and
interviews him on the justice of his judgments. As result of
the angry interview the god is reborn on earth as a man of
low caste, and the law is established that a child is not
morally responsible for his acts till the twelfth year of
his age (i.108. 8 ff.). When Kuru agrees to give half his
life in order to the restoration of Pramadvar[=a], his wife,
they go not to Yama but to Dharma to see if the exchange may
be made, and he agrees (i. 9. 11 ff., a masculine
S[=a]vitr[=i]i).]
[Footnote 77: The hells are described in xii. 322. 29 ff.
The sight of 'golden trees' presages death (_ib._ 44).]
[Footnote 78: The ordinary rule is that "no sin is greater
than untruth," xii. 162. 24, modified by "save in love and
danger of life" (Laws, _passim_).]
[Footnote 79: The same scenes occur in Buddhistic writings,
where Yakkhas ask conundrums. For example, in the
_Hemavatasutta_ and _[=A]tavakasutta_ the Yakkha asks what
is the best possession, what brings bliss, and what is
swettest, to which the answer is: faith, law, and truth,
respectively.]
[Footnote 80: _Karm[=a]ntaram up[=a]santas, i.e.,
vir[=a]mak[=a]lam upagacchantas_.]
[Footnote 81: II. 36. 3 ff. The phraseology of vs. 5 is
exactly that of [Greek: _ton êttô ldgon kreittô poithnsi_],
but the Pundit's arguments are 'based on the law.']
[Footnote 82: See above. In a later period (see below) the
question arises in regard to the part played by Creator and
individual in the workings of grace, some claiming that man
was passive; some, that he had to strive for grace.]
[Footnote 83: Perhaps ironical. In V. 175. 32, a woman cries
out: "Fie on the Creator for this bad luck," conservative in
belief, and outspoken in word.]
[Footnote 84: III. 30. 17. The _gosava_ is a
'cow-sacrifice.' The _pu[n.][d.]ar[=i]ka_ is not explained
(perhaps 'elephant-sacrifice').]
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CHAPTER XV.
HINDUISM (CONTINUED).--VISHNU AND ÇIVA.
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