61. Six other high-minded, very powerful Manus, who belong to the race of this Manu, the descendant of the Self-existent (Svayambhu), and who have severally produced created beings, 62. (Are... Read more
31. But for the sake of the prosperity of the worlds he caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, the Vaisya, and the Sudra to proceed from his mouth, his arms, his thighs, and his feet. 32. Divid... Read more
Click for Scriptures in Sanskrit The ancient scripture, Manu Smriti (also called the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or Laws of Manu, Manu Sutras Manu Sashtra etc.) is an ancient scripture laying down t... Read more
PÂDA III. Adhik. I, II, III (1-3) reconcile the different accounts given in the Upanishads as to the stations of the way which leads the vidvân up to Brahman. Adhik. IV (4-6)-By the ‘s... Read more
FOURTH ADHYÂYA. PÂDA I. Adhikarana I (1, 2).–The meditation on the Âtman enjoined by Scripture is not an act to be accomplished once only, but is to be repeated again and again. Adhik... Read more
PÂDA III. With the third pâda of the second adhyâya a new section of the work begins, whose task it is to describe how the individual soul is enabled by meditation on Brahman to obtain final... Read more
THIRD ADHYÂYA. PÂDA I. Adhik. I (1-7) teaches that the soul, when passing out of the body at the time of death, remains invested with the subtle material elements (bhûtasûkshma) which serve... Read more
PÂDA III. The third pâda discusses the question whether the different forms of existence which, in their totality, constitute the world have an origin or not, i. e. whether they are co-etern... Read more
SECOND ADHYÂYA. The first adhyâya has proved that all the Vedânta-texts unanimously teach that there is only one cause of the world, viz. Brahman, whose nature is intelligence, and that ther... Read more
PÂDA IV. The last pâda of the first adhyâya is specially directed against the Sânkhyas. The first adhikarana (1-7) discusses the passage Katha Up. I, 3, 10; 11, where mention is made of the... Read more
