Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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Prakriti of the Sânkhyas, i, p. xxx. -the individual soul as free from, i, p. lxxxiii.
VEDANTA-SUTRAS.
Pralaya (re-absorption of the world
into Brahman) at the end of each kalpa, i, pp. xxix, liv, xciv, 382 n., 386-389; ii, 47, 371, 392.
-in it endeavour cannot take place, because no body exists then, nor any other seen cause, required to bring about the conjunction of the atoms, i, 387. - would be impossible, if the atoms were essentially active, i, 391. - see also World, reabsorption of the.
Prâna, Vâyu and, not to be identified, i, p. lxxiv; ii, 256-259. - is Brahman, i, 229-231, 272; ii,
143.
-through knowledge of the p. immortality arises, i, 229-231. - is a raised thunderbolt, i, 229
231.
- is the highest Self, i, 231. - knowledge of the, ii, 186 seq.
is the best among the organs of the body, ii, 256.
everything is food of the, ii, 309 seq. -see also Breath, and Vital air. Prânâgnihotra is not omitted even when the eating of food is omitted, ii, 249 seq.
- is omitted when the eating of food is omitted, ii, 250-252. -the details of the fundamental Agnihotra not valid for it, ii,
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251 seq.
Prânas, the word 'person' applied to them, i, 261.
colloquy of the, i, 304; ii, 88, 89, 186, 187 seqq., 200, 211, 215, 309. -the individual soul is the sustaining principle of the, i, 361. see also Vital airs. Prânavidyâs, their unity, i, p. lxviii;
ii, 200 seq., 212. Prasna-upanishad, on the akshara
Om, i, p. xliii.
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Prastotri, even those priests, P. and so on, who are devoid of the knowledge of the divinities of
the prastâva and the like, perform the sacrifices, ii, 254. Pratardana, the legend of Indra and, i, 97-99, 101; ii, 305, 306. Pravargya-ceremony, passages about
the, ii, 222-224.
Prayer, where the works of the asramas are not possible, p. qualifies for knowledge, ii, 316. Priest, the meditations on subordi
nate members of the sacrifice are his work, ii, 321.
- the fruit of meditations in which the P. is the agent goes to the sacrificer, ii, 321.
Priests as a rule sacrificers of one and the same family employ officiating p. of one and the same family, i, 226.
-even those p. who do not know the divinities of the prastâva and the like, perform sacrifices, ii, 254.
Purânas, on past and future kalpas, i, 361.
-see Itihâsas and P. Purifications, required for Vedic works, mentioned with a view to the origination of knowledge in him who has undergone those, ii, 314.
Purushas of the Sânkhyas, i, p. xxx. Purusha-vidyâ, of the Taittirîyaka
and of the Kbåndogya-upanishad are not to be combined, ii, 220
222.
Purvâkâryâs,
'ancient teachers,' quoted by Râmânuga, i, p. xxi. Purva-mîmâmsâ, i, p. ix.
- arose at an early date, i, p. x. enquiry into active religious duty its subject, i, 10.
means of proof made use of in the, i, 17 seq. and n.; ii, 262 seq. Purva-mîmâmsâ-sûtras, i, p. xii. Pushan, the grains for P. are to be crushed at all vikritis of the darsapûrnamâsa, ii, 309.
Râgasûya-sacrifice, Brâhmanas are not qualified for the, i, 218; ii.
266.
- is to be offered by a prince who wishes to become the ruler of the whole earth, i, 222, 222 n.
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