Ellis's Commentary on and Translation of Selections from Tirukkuṟaḷ1819 - 304 pages |
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... couplet would be - As the vowel A stands first among the letters ( of the Tamil alphabet ) so the eternal God stands first in the world - and this in fact , is the meaning given to it in the Latin Commentary . The foregoing version ...
... couplet would be - As the vowel A stands first among the letters ( of the Tamil alphabet ) so the eternal God stands first in the world - and this in fact , is the meaning given to it in the Latin Commentary . The foregoing version ...
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... Couplet of Chap . 3rd , where it means the inhabitants both of heaven and earth . Here , moreover , generality may more especially be attributed to it , the adjective & all being so placed in the sentence as to qualify both letters and ...
... Couplet of Chap . 3rd , where it means the inhabitants both of heaven and earth . Here , moreover , generality may more especially be attributed to it , the adjective & all being so placed in the sentence as to qualify both letters and ...
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... couplets the words , the wor- shippers of his feet , to express reverence , and those who are united to his feet , to express obedience , are used in the original ; such use probably originated in the practice of substituting in the act ...
... couplets the words , the wor- shippers of his feet , to express reverence , and those who are united to his feet , to express obedience , are used in the original ; such use probably originated in the practice of substituting in the act ...
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... couplet as an epithet of the Deity , the other sea signifies , con- sequently , the sea of that which is different from virtue , that is of vice : Tiruvalluver frequently uses this term , to disignate the opposite of some E quality or ...
... couplet as an epithet of the Deity , the other sea signifies , con- sequently , the sea of that which is different from virtue , that is of vice : Tiruvalluver frequently uses this term , to disignate the opposite of some E quality or ...
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... couplet . The head which does not worship the feet of him who has eight qualities has itself no quality , being like an organ of sense , which has not it's peculi- ar property . The qualities here intended are the principal attributes ...
... couplet . The head which does not worship the feet of him who has eight qualities has itself no quality , being like an organ of sense , which has not it's peculi- ar property . The qualities here intended are the principal attributes ...
Common terms and phrases
according acts adorned affection ancient appellative Asura attained attributes beatitude beauty benefit benevolence birth body Brahmà Brahmans called cause ceremonies Chapter commentator compound conjugal considered couplet declared Deity derived devotion Digambara domestic duties earth eternal evil exist expressed extracts father felicity female fire flower former friendship gerund Gods governed guests happiness hath heaven Hindu house-holder husband India Indra Jaina Jainer king knowledge latter literally Lord Malayalam marriage masc meaning Méru mind mountain nature noun oblations obtained original Parimèl-azhager participle Parvati perform periphrasis possess practice preceding princes pron qualities religious rendered rites root sage Sanscrit Sanyasi scriptures sects sense signifies sing Siva Siven Smritis soul species STANZA Tamil Tamil alphabet Tamil language Telugu term thee things thou art Tiruvalluver translated tribes Védas verb verse virtue virtuous Vishnu wealth wife women word worship
Popular passages
Page 170 - WHO can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 79 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Page 35 - As milk, once drawn, cannot again enter the udder, nor butter, churned, be re-combined with milk, As sound cannot be produced from a broken conch, nor the life be restored to the dead body, As a decayed leaf, and a fallen flower, cannot be reunited to the parent tree, So a man, once dead, is subject to no future birth.
Page 32 - Who but he possesseth in the highest degree the highest virtue ? Who but he vouchsafeth clearness of understanding, to dispel the fantasies of the world ? Who but he is the Lord of deities, free from all affliction ? Bow, O my soul, at his resplendent feet, by which the miseries of the world are removed. " He removeth the impurity of the mind, and causeth the flower of purity again to blow; His knowledge is eternal and immeasurable, but his knowledge is not derived from the organs of sense; He is...
Page 44 - Valang-caiydr sfa&Idang-caiydr, or, as commonly, though improperly called, the right hand and left hand castes ; the former including the whole of the agricultural tribes, who endeavour, under a different order of things, to maintain their ancient preeminence ; the latter including chiefly the trading and manufacturing tribes, who endeavour, and in modern times generally with success, to evade it
Page 90 - If it be thought eternal felicity can be obtained by wearing long and matted hair, by bathing in -water, lying on the ground, and emaciating the body, then may the bears that bathe in the lakes and wander in the forests, also, obtain felicity ;—qmt, said he, such ignorant notions.
Page 34 - Formerly, how many flowers have I gathered and scattered, How many prayers have I repeated in a vain worship! While yet in the prime of my life, how much water have I poured out! And, moreover, how often have I encompassed the holy places of Siven! This...
Page 104 - ... hast affirmed, be considered as proceeding from a prescribed destiny f Listen sedulously to the explication of the exalted faith taught by the Lord. " If there be a prescribed destiny it is impossible to avoid it; all crooked actions, therefore, must be considered as the fault of destiny, not the fault of the mind which it affects; all virtuous actions, also, must be referred to destiny and cannot be considered as virtues of the mind; consequently, neither virtue, nor vice can be attributed to...
Page 65 - On the flying chariot of Desire, she arrived at the Desert of Sin; on the flying chariot of Fear, she repaired to the Mountains of Penitence ; on the flying chariot of resplendent Wisdom, she entered the grove of Growing Virtue ; and on the flying chariot of My Name, she shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Page 95 - Refer not virtue to another day ; Receive her now, and, at thy dying hour, She "11 prove thy never-dying friend.