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Account of the several Manus and Manvantaras. Svārociṣa the second Manu: the divinities, the Indra, the seven Ṛṣis of…
Of the seven future Manus and Manvantaras. Story of Sañjñā and Chāyā, wives of the sun. Sāvarṇi, son of Chāyā, the ei…
Division of the Veda into four portions, by a Vyāsa, in every Dvāpara age. List of the twenty-eight Vyāsas of the pre…
Division of the Veda, in the last Dvāpara age, by the Vyāsa Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana. Paila made reader of the Rich; Vaiśampā…
Divisions of the Yajur-veda. Story of Yājñawalkya: forced to give up what he has learned: picked up by others, formin…
Divisions of the Sāma - veda: of the Atharva-veda. Four Paurāṇik Saṃhitās. Names of the eighteen Purāṇas. Branches of…
By what means men are exempted from the authority of Yama, as narrated by Bhīṣma to Nakula. Dialogue between Yama and…
How Viṣṇu is to be worshipped, as related by Aurva to Sagara. Duties of the four castes, severally and in common: als…
"When the youth has been invested with the thread of his caste, let him diligently prosecute the study of the Vedas, …
SAGARA then addressed Aurva, and said, “You have described to me, venerable Brahman, the duties of the four orders an…
Of the Sadācāras, or perpetual obligations of a householder. Daily purifications, ablutions, libations, and oblations…
"Let a respectable householder ever venerate the gods, kine, Brahmans, saints, aged persons, and holy teachers. Let h…
Of Śrāddhas, or rites in honour of ancestors, to be performed on occasions of rejoicing. Obsequial ceremonies. Of the…
"Let the devout performer of an ancestral oblation propitiate Brahmā, Indra, Rudra, the Āśvins, the sun, fire, the Va…
"Hear next, oh prince, what description of Brahman should be fed at ancestral ceremonies. he should be one studied in…
Things proper to be offered as food to deceased ancestors: prohibited things. Circumstances vitiating a Śrāddha: how …
Of heretics, or those who reject the authority of the Vedas: their origin, as described by Vaśiṣṭha to Bhīṣma: the go…
Buddha goes to the earth, and teaches the Daityas to contemn the Vedas: his sceptical doctrines: his prohibition of a…