Bibliotheca Indica, Svazek 270

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Strana 2 - The real doctrine of the whole Indian scripture is the unity of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended : and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars, and planets, as gods.
Strana 428 - He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged".
Strana 411 - It is enough for me, Lord, take away my soul : for I am no better than my fathers.
Strana 331 - The family which has omitted prescribed acts of religion; that which has produced no male children; that, in which the Veda has not been read; that, which has thick hair on the body; and those, which have been subject to hemorrhoids, to phthisis, to dyspepsia, to epilepsy, to leprosy, and to elephantiasis.
Strana 2 - The three principal manifestations of the divinity, with other personified attributes and energies, and most of the other gods of Hindu mythology, are indeed mentioned, or at least indicated, in the Veda. But the worship of deified heroes is no part of the system; nor are the incarnations of deities suggested in any portion of the text which I have yet seen, though such are sometimes hinted at by the commentators 5.
Strana 423 - Although I am the Master of so vast a kingdom, and all the appliances of government are at my hand, yet since true greatness consists in doing the will of God, my mind is not at ease in this diversity of sects and creeds...
Strana 441 - should be ever intent on conquest, otherwise his neighbors rise in arms against him. The army should be exercised in warfare, lest from want of training they become...
Strana 424 - Emperors were lovers of justice. Akbar is stated to have declared that "If I were guilty of an unjust act, I would rise in judgment against myself.
Strana 425 - ... by the night, when it covereth him with darkness; by the heaven, and him who built it; by the earth, and him who spread it forth; by the soul, and him who completely formed it, and inspired into the same its faculty of distinguishing, and power of choosing, wickedness and piety: now is he who hath purified the same happy; but he who hath corrupted the same is miserable.
Strana 8 - The inhabitants of this land are religious, affectionate, hospitable, genial and frank. They are fond of scientific pursuits, inclined to austerity of life, seekers after justice, contented, industrious, capable in affairs, loyal, truthful, and constant. The true worth of this people shines most in the day of adversity and its soldiers know no retreat from the field. They, one and all, believe in the unity of God; and as to the reverence they pay to the images of stones and wood and the like, which...

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