राजधर्मः
Rājadharma (Kingship and Governance)
Duties of rulers, statecraft, the seven aṅgas, daṇḍanīti, war and peace.
961 paragraphs across 8 volumes
Volume I: Part I 238 paragraphs
...It may be noted that the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya (I. 3. 13) prescribes for all men ahimsā, satya, ś...
...he two epics, the Mahā- bhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, and the Purāṇas also have played a gre...
.... Yet on the question of the age of the Arthaśāstra depending on the same materials there a...
...i. e. the Manusmṛti) and Itihāsa (i. e. Mahābhārata) he starts with Gautama as the first in...
...āryāḥ’ (which occurs in the Nirukta, in Kauṭilya and various other works), it is difficu...
... taken from the Āśvamedhikaparva of the Mahābhārata, as Mādhava and others cite verses occu...
..., which is nearly the same as Mahābhārata I. 78. 10 and 34. Bauḍ quotes the view of Ācāryas...
...tharvaveda’. Here he probably refers to Arthaśāstra, which according to the caraṇavyūha, is...
... that of a horse. In the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya the name ‘Ghoṭa-mukha’ is cited in V. 5...
...Vaṣ 26. 14 and M. 4. 146, Vaṣ 30. 7 and Manu 7. 84 and six passages that contain half vers...
.... S. I. 11. 1-9, Manu III 21 and 27-34, Kauṭilya III. 2. 1-9 name and define the same eight forms of...
...-10 and Manu 7. 115, Viṣṇu 3. 11-15 and Manu 7. 116-117, Viṣṇu 4. 1-13 and Manu 8. 132-137, Viṣ...
...stra based on Veda’. The Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya sets out in the 15th adhikarana ‘tantra...
... are not found in several copies of the Mahābhārata.
...Likhita are dear do not like theṃ' Vide Sabhāparva 7. 11 where among the holy sages who graced I...
...ficult to assign a definite date to the Mahābhārata, so also it is impossible or at least a...
...9 ). The style of Śaṅkha reminds one of Kauṭilya rather than of Gautama. The quotations ...
...rs, we cannot afford to forget that the Manusmṛti (7. 60) allows more ministers than seven or eig...
14. The Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya
... Maurya (King). Here the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya is called Daṇḍanīti. The Niti-sāra of Kām...
... almost the same topics as are found in Kauṭilya’s Artha- śāstra. A few sūtras ( which a...
...me verses are quoted from the Cākṣuṣīya Arthaśāstra in an anthology called Sūktiratnākara (vi...
... that has nine verses in it ) occurs in Manu (VII. 105 ) but, as shown above, the Cākṣuṣīya quot...
The publication of the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya was a great event and this work will ha...
... third volume containing a study of the Arthaśāstra will soon follow. In this revised editi...
...published in Dr. Jolly's edition of the Arthaśāstra ( 1923 ), with an Introduction ( pp. 1–47 ) in E...
...tary, if it dealt with the whole of the Arthaśāstra, must have been very extensive, since t...
... I. Kalya- nov ( Leningrad, 1959 ). The Arthaśāstra has been translated into Hindi by sever...
... exhaustive bibliography on the date of Kauṭilya.
...s on various matters connected with the Kauṭilya have been publisheḍ The present author ...
...shal (3rd eḍ Bombay, 1959); ‘Studies in Kauṭilya’ by M. V. Krishnarao (2nd eḍ 1958); ‘St...
...re', Vol. I pp. 247–261); 'Place of the Arthaśāstra in the Litera-ture of Indian Polity' by P...
...se of conflict between dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra, the rule is that the former prevailṣ
...array called Śakaţa is mentioned in the Droṇaparva 7. 24, which occurs in Kauțiliya also (at X. ...
...shastra-of-kautilya-16">16 In Sabhāparva (74. 7-8 ) Duryodhana tells his father that acc. t...
...elied on the treatise of Bṛhaspati, and Kauṭilya differed from their teaching in I. 2. 4...
...Vyūha called Śakaṭa is mentioned in the Arthaśāstra X. 6. 26 and Vajra in X. 6. 35. The Manusmṛti in...
It is clear that the author of the Mahābhārata had before him a treatise by Uśanas on ...
...Āśvamedhika-parva 90. 99–100 and in the Rāmāyaṇa, Uttarakāṇḍa, chap. 53. 6-26. Not only ...
... (about 25), among which are Kātyāyana, Kauṭilya (four donees of that gotra), Gautama, J...
...or most cases of treachery mentioned by Kauṭilya is not clear. As he holds that A. belongs...
...at Nandas will rule for 100 years, that Kauṭilya would uproot the Nandas and place Candr...
...–52 ) suggests that in the story in the Rāmāyaṇa ( Uttarākāṇḍa 100–101 ) about the war b...
... our knowledge. If this be accepted the Arthaśāstra would have to be pushed back at least s...
...g Kauṭilya as the author of the work on Arthaśāstra.
...Christian era and therefore the name of Kauṭilya, it seems, was known some centuries bef...
...umudi vol. I. pp. 85–119 (paper styled ‘Arthaśāstra, a blend of old and new’) seems to hold...
...known under two more names (Cāṇakya and Kauṭilya) at least from the 5th or 6th century A...
... Jolly has proved that Yāj. was used by Kauṭilya and that the evidence is conclusive (at...
...hat great divergences exist between the Kauṭilya and the account left by Megastheneṣ The...
...s career. By the time M. came to India, Kauṭilya might have been living in a hermitage o...
...ston in JRAS for 1929 p. 101 holds that Kauṭilya must have been an experienced and pract...
...rautasūtra ( Dr. Caland's eḍ ) includes Kauṭilya in the Yaska group of gotras ( vol. III p...
...es and emphasis are different and hence Arthaśāstra may be called parallel to (though not i...
...shed slightly later or earlier than the Mahābhārata as we have it.
...abi- lity at least ? Many of them treat Kauṭilya as if he were in the dock and regard th...
... first response to the publi- cation of Kauṭilya's work and published a paper (in B. C. ...
...scholar (except Dr. Pran Nath) puts the Arthaśāstra later than the 3rd century A. D. and most...
...g interpretations of bhāṣyākaras on the Arthaśāstra, Viṣṇu- gupta himself composed the sūtr...
... ). The *Pravaramañjari* enumerates the Kauṭilyas ( p. 32, of the edition by P. Chentsal...
...ring at the end in some msṣ the same as Kauṭilya or Cāṇakya or different.
...a, the Kādambarī ascribes the Śāstra to Kauṭilya, the Daśakumāracarita identifies Viṣṇug...
...e, that even when some of them refer to Kauṭilya as instrumental in uprooting the Nandas...
...rows from whom, but it is probable that Kauṭilya borrowed from *Śāntiparva* or Bauḍ A ha...
...undamental points on which Manu and the Kauṭilya disagree.
...on as Kauṭilya. It is not unlikely that Kauṭilya has in mind this discussion in the Dhar...
...phere of the administration of justice, Kauṭilya is far in advance of the dharmasūtras of ...
...s were known before Pāṇini and although Manu VII. 81 provides that the king should appoint v...
... carry us far; we can only say that the Kauṭilya is certainly not later than the 2nd centu...
...e same as Uśanas ) and Indra ( probably Kauṭilya's Bāhudantīputra ), whose abridgment of...
...tathya, Vāmadeva, Vasuhoma, Kāmandaka ( Śāntiparva 123. 11 ) and a few others which are not found ...
...ssion on those scholars who ascribe the Rāmāyaṇa to the 5th century B. C or earlier. Nor...
... at least in historic timeṣ Besides, in Udyogaparva ( 86. 10 ) Dhṛtarāṣṭra is made to say that he woul...
...ee above p. 172 ). In ‘The geography of Kauṭilya’ by Harihar Trivedi in I. C. vol. I pp....
... the Arthaśāstra in view. The fact that Kauṭilya states ( in A. II. 20. 37–38 ) that the...
...ous, parti- cularly in dealing with the Mahābhārata, because it is a vast work and because ...
...other ancient work speaks of Cāṇakya or Kauṭilya as a general; all that is claimed for h...
... picture about the Ājīvas ( or-vikās ). Kauṭilya says that weights should be made of iro...
...parva 130. 61–62, Droṇaparva 70. 15–19, Śalyaparva 49. 7–10, where the donee is the sage Kaśyapa. T...
...ish was made. Dr. Stein in his work on ‘Kauṭilya and Megasthenes’ ( Wien, 1922 ) compare...
...to establish that the whole of the vast Arthaśāstra was in verse? Similarly, the verse ‘Deś...
...he meaning of Ānvīkṣikī ( which acc. to Kauṭilya I. 2. 10 includes Sāṅkhya, Yoga and Lokāyata ) h...
...ains Ānvīkṣikī as ātınavidyā and quotes Manu VII. 43 ( which he appears to have read as ‘Ānv...
Kauṭilya prescribes ( in I. 19. 9–24 ) an ideal ...
... M. to 1. 30 A. M. It may be noted that Manu VII. 216-225 and Yāj. I. 327-333 contain similar but...
...n the same chapter ( I. 19. 33-35 ) the Kauṭilya engages in a fine metaphor, comparing t...
... may appoint a minister when he pleaseṣ Kauṭilya himself says ‘It is the king alone who ...
...d birth. It should not be supposed that Kauṭilya stands alone in recom- mending secret p...
...efforts to show that the monarch in the Arthaśāstra was a constitutional king and not an ab...
... some of the chief grounds on which the Arthaśāstra is assigned to about 300 B. C.
... Arthaśāstra and the fact that no other Kauṭilya or Cāṇakya, author of a work on A. or a...
...astri reads ‘Pārāśaraḥ’ in I. 8, I. 15. Kauṭilya mentions the views of the following ind...
...iparva 58. 3. Chap. 140 (71 verses ) of Śāntiparva is called Kaṇikopadeśa at the enḍ But in ...
...an Chwang's travels show). Hence if the Arthaśāstra was composed in the 3rd century A. D. a...
4. The Arthaśāstra uses the word Rājā only (not Samrāt nor...
...Aśoka’s time. In Kauṭilya’s day, in the Mahābhārata and in Manu the word had been used in a...
...ikas on Pāṇ. and the Mahābhāṣya and the Mahābhārata. While commenting on Pāṇ. VI. 3. 26 ( *...
...he rule, according to the Mahābhārata ( Virāṭaparva 52. 3-4 ) and the Yajuṣa Vedāṅgajyotiṣa ( verse...
...r establishing the proposition that the Arthaśāstra follows the rules laid down by the Vedā...
...lowed Pāṇini completely. Therefore, the Arthaśāstra must be held to have been composed at a...
...and 138 more paragraphs in this volume
Volume I: Part II 47 paragraphs
...urghaṭārtha-prakāśinī of Vimalabodha on Mahābhārata, Śānti. and Chap. 121, 14ff, where the ...
...oftener than any other work (except the Mahābhārata, the Bhagavadgītā and the Manusmṛti).
...lows what is stated in the Mahābhārata. Śāntiparva (in 59. 125) states ‘rañjitāśca prajāḥ sarvās tena r...
... closely with the print- ed text ( vide Arthaśāstra III. 14, p. 186, eḍ by Shama Sastri ).
...thakalpataru bases its treatment on the Mahābhārata (quoted 15 times ), 12 Purāṇas Matsya a...
...dhibhāva and Saṁśraya; ( only verses of Manu VII 160-180 and IX. 298-300 are quoted with...
...l about 726 verses from the Purāṇas and Mahābhārata ).
...en mere *paurāṇikas* or reciters of the Mahābhārata so far as Mokṣa is concerneḍ Lakṣmīdhar...
...have quoted hundreds of verses from the Mahābhārata and Purāṇaṣ There is no reference to ba...
...lly from chapters VI and XII). From the Mahābhārata hundreds of verses are quoted among the...
...ef-79-jīmūtavāhana-17">17 the Mahābhārata and the Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa the following ...
...the Mahābhārata and only seven from the Rāmāyaṇa (one on p. 385, two on p. 875 and four ...
...xtremely valuable information about the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇaṣ As it quotes extensivel...
...kāra, Manuvṛtti, Medhātithi, Mitākṣarā, Rāmāyaṇa (four verses), and Varāhamihira (one ve...
...ticandrikā of a verse occurring in the `Mahābhārata` about a man with male issue performing...
...is father. He quotes profusely from the Mahābhārata, the Mahāpurāṇas and Upapurāṇas and fro...
...s the well-known sūtras, smṛtis and the Mahābhārata the following works : Karma- pradīpa (f...
... castes, paying off debts, listening to Mahābhārata &c., actions proper for Kṣatriyas, Vaiś...
... of kings, conflict of Dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra, the six guṇas—saṁdhi etc., the maṇḍala...
...arasiddhānta, Vasiṣṭha 93. Mādhavācārya Rāmāyaṇa, the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi (of Bhāskarācār...
..., Kavaṣa (p. 471), Kṛṣṇa (pp. 78, 278), Kauṭilya (pp. 284–85), Dharmadrona (p. 353 eithe...
...84–85) quotes a passage from Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra about the payment of Dakṣiṇā when one o...
...āma (Manu VII. 27, Śāntiparva 121. 10). Kauṭilya (in I. 4. 11-14) emphasizes the same thingṣ
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Kauṭilya Arthaśāstra
I.4.11-14
.... 14, 15, 17, 18, points out by quoting Manu VII. 20-21 that, if the king does not punish those...
...es of conflict between Dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra and between two dharmaśāstras also.
...ral verses, probably from some purāṇa), Mahābhārata (on pp. 30, 41, 42–43), Yāj. (on p. 39,...
...ṣṇugupta is cannot be definitely stateḍ Kauṭilya, who also is called Viṣṇugupta in the M...
...rṣ The Rāmāyaṇa is quoted twice and the Mahābhārata thrice. Many Purāṇas such as Agni, Kāli...
...as the Bhāgavata purāṇa states that the Mahābhārata takes the place of Veda in the case of ...
4. ‘Rāmāyaṇa and its influence on Ballalasena and Ra...
...Gādhi does not occur in the Ṛgveda. The Mahābhārata and some of the Purāṇas are full of sto...
...ables) i. e. they came to double of the Mahābhārata in extent. Among those published in the C...
...ra (human effort) from Daiva; vide also Manu VII. 205, Yaj. I. 349 and 351. Vanaparva (82. 9-...
...u about, p. 331; views of, according to Kauṭilya, p. 209; referred to by Gautama, pp. 13...
...6; one of the five schools mentioned by Kauṭilya, p. 209. Barua, Dr. B. M., pp. 178, 216...
... 259. Bhikṣu Prabhamati, commentator of Arthaśāstra, p. 155. Bhikṣusūtras, p. 80. Bhimaparā...
...pp. 151, 165, 192. Daśarathajātaka, and Rāmāyaṇa, pp. 392–93. Daśaśloki, the same as Āśa...
..., p. 480. Lokāyata, school of, known to Kauṭilya, pp. 210, 225; expounded by Pañcaśikha ...
...a, p. 356; story of, older than that of Rāmāyaṇa, p. 361; literature known to, p. 363; s...
...aṁskṛt, official language, according to Kauṭilya, p. 210. Śāntapana, defined by Viṣṇudha...
...mantra could be recited by, pp. 895-96; Mahābhārata was composed for, p. 896; may adopt dau...
..., p. 73. Utathya, on politics, named by Mahābhārata, p. 210; son of, mentioned by Manusmṛti...
...0. Vātāpi, p. 219. Vātavyādhi, named by Kauṭilya, pp. 196, 210. Vate'svarasiddhānta, p. ...
... remarriage of, allowed by Vasiṣṭha and Kauṭilya, pp. 105, 205; remarriage of, allowed b...
..., p. 752. Yājñānārāyaṇa, commentator of Mahābhārata, p. 381. Yājñapārśva, pp. 794ṇ, 799. ya...
...a, p. 612. * Yogghama, commentator of Arthaśāstra, p. 155; cites the views of Āmbhiyas, p...
Volume II: Part I 123 paragraphs
...f-dharmashastra-27">27 ). The Mahābhārata says that freedom from anger, truthfuln...
...ime as unworthy of the Āryas to live iṇ Karṇaparva 43. 5-8 abuses those who live on the Sindhu and...
... Jamadagni and Vasiṣṭha narrated in the Mahābhārata ( Śānti 49 for Kārtavirya; Ādi. 175 for...
...adhyakṣas and amātyas (as in Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra) and are not really castes but occupati...
...rva 48. 4, Nārada ( stripumsa 106 ) and Kauṭilya ( III. 7 ) say the same. Gautama IV. 15 as interpr...
...far in the opinion of the author of the Mahābhārata ( Vanaparva 180. 31-33 ) follows from t...
...f arms and governing the people. In the Mahābhārata we meet with stories of kings who becam...
...nt on making money or seeking pleasure. Kauṭilya in one place distinguishes between soldie...
... Pulindas (vide Rock Edict No. 13). The Udyogaparva (160. 103) mentions Andhras (probably as people of...
... vaidehika, māgadha and āyogava. In the Mahābhārata (Śānti 101. 19) reference is made to an...
...aṣṭhas derived its name from a country. Karṇaparva (6. 11) mentions a king Ambaṣṭha. In Bauḍ Dh. S...
...rivers and carried away Vṛṣṇi womeṇ The Sabhāparva (51. 12) mentions *ābhiras* with Pāradas and the...
...rieṣ Vide note on Khāśa (p. 79) and see Sabhāparva 51. 23.
...rukta II. 2) and Pāṇini ( IV. 1. 175 ). Udyogaparva 160. 103, Droṇa 121. 13 mention Kambojas with Śa...
...es with Bauḍ Dh. I. 9. 15. According to Kaut. III. 7 he is the offspring of an ugra male fro...
...same as a cāraṇa (a bard). According to Kaut. (III. 7) he is the offspring of a vaidehaka male...
...bove. According to Bauḍ Dh. S. I. 9. 7, Kaut. (III. 7), Manu X. 12, 13 and 16, Yāj. I. 94, Nār...
...śūdraṣ They are frequently named in the Mahābhārata e. g. Sabhā 51. 23, Vanaparva 177. 12, ...
... *khasa* above p. 79. Vide Mahābhārata, Udyogaparva 4. 15.
...tatus of a śūdra. Vide under khaśa, and Mahābhārata, Udyoga 160. 103, Droṇa 93. 43.
...eading for Licchavi or Licchivi. Kaut. (Arthaśāstra XI. 1) speaks of the oligarchies or corporati...
...eddish eyes and with black hair. In the Rāmāyaṇa Guha, the king of niṣādas, helps Rāma t...
...tatus of śūdra. Vide note on khaśa. The Mahābhārata several times mentions the Pahlavas, Pā...
...Pāradas are frequently mentioned in the Mahābhārata, generally as Mlecchas and non-Aryan tr...
...rakas are spoken of as kṣatriyas in the Mahābhārata, so a man may be misled into thinking t...
... male from a śūdra female. According to Kaut. (III. 7) he is the offspring of a nisāda male fr...
...t the barbaras are saṁkīrṇayoniṣ In the Mahābhārata they are frequently mentioned among non...
...ding to Gaut. IV. 15, Anusāsana 48. 12, Kaut. (III. 7), Manu X. 11, 17 and Yāj. I. 93 he is a ...
...(vide under khasa above p. 79 ). In the Mahābhārata Yavanas are almost always associated wi...
...p. Dh. S. quoted under pulkasa (p. 89). Kaut. (III. 7) adds that a vaiṇya follows the same pro...
...aka.** According to Bauḍ Dh. (I. 9. 8), Kaut. (III. 7), Manu X. 11, 13, 17, Viṣṇu Dh. S. 16. 6...
...p. 92) above. They are mentioned in the Mahābhārata along with Yavana and other non-Aryan t...
... jungle tribe like the _Bhilla_. In the Mahābhārata the _śabaras_ are frequently mentioned ...
... According to Bauḍ Dh. S. ( I. 9. 12 ), Kaut. ( III. 7 ), he is the offspring of an ugra male fr...
...(a king) of his dutieṣ According to the Karṇaparva (32. 48) sūtas are the attendants of brāhmaṇas a...
...ivileges-of-varnas-19">19 The Mahābhārata says that when a brāhmaṇa has more corn...
...y would suffer from famine and disease (Manu VII. 134). Yāj. III. 44 lays down that it is the...
...d-privileges-of-varnas-29">29 Manu VII. 85, Veda-Vyāsa IV. 42, Dakṣa III. 28 say t...
...by the story of Śambūka narrated in the Rāmāyaṇa ( VII. 73-76. ) The Uttararāmacarita of...
...ivileges-of-varnas-51">51 The Śāntiparva (78. 18) calls upon persons of all varṇas to wie...
...as-63">63 Udyoga-parva 38. 5, Śāntiparva 78. 4-6, Hārīta (as quoted by Aparārka p. 1113)...
...9">79 is made to boast in the Mahābhārata (Śānti 77. 22) that no one who is not a...
...ivileges-of-varnas-86">86 The Mahābhārata indulges in very frequent eulogies of brā...
...itary and is so even now ) to the skieṣ Manu ( VII. 4-11 ) propounds
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Manusmṛti
VII.4-11
...h such directions (Vaṣ Dh. S. I. 39-41, Manu VII. 37, X. 2). This is supported by the words ...
...de Ait. Br. (chap. 35 khaṇḍa 4). In the Mahābhārata, however many kings are described as So...
...also banishment and labour on mineṣ But Kaut. makes an exception, viz. he allows a br...
...ces (E. I. vol. XX. pp. 64 and 70). The Śāntiparva (76. 2–10) contains an interesting disquisition on...
...recedence to one of a higher varṇa. The Mahābhārata (Vanaparva 133. 1) adds the blind and t...
...nduct, he does not thereby.......fury'. Udyoga-parva (178. 51-52) says that, if a man kills in a battle a...
...ura and Dharma- vyādha mentioned in the Mahābhārata did) and that he may attain to mokṣa, t...
...ny śūdras became kings and Kaut. in his Arthaśāstra (IX. 2) speaks of armies of śūdras (vide note 2...
...e dāsīs with ornaments on to Atri. Vide Droṇaparva 57. 5–9. Manu (VIII. 299–300) places a slave on...
...laves (dāsas) and hired servantṣ In the Arthaśāstra (III. 13) Kauțilya
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Arthaśāstra
III.13
Kauṭilya declared that the heirs to the wealth o...
...ya. The Ādiparva makes Gaṇeśa write the Mahābhārata to the dictation of Vyāsa; but this par...
...mskāras-178">178 probably the Arthaśāstra in view when he makes prince Candrāpīḍa e...
...cared much less for Veda studieṣ In the Mahābhārata and in the Kādambarī it is said that th...
... should do in their samāvartana. In the Mahābhārata (Vanaparva 305. 20)...
...story and also Droṇaparva 181. 17). The Mahābhārata condemns him who learns the Vedas at home...
...er-vii-upanayana-176">176 The Mahābhārata says that a brāhmaṇa may be deemed to h...
...uction' (i.e. he may be abandoned). The Droṇaparva (50. 21) says that a pupil comes only after the ...
...e's husband, one's mother's sister. The Mahābhārata says that one should not mention by nam...
...Āyurveda, Dhanurveda, Gāndharvaveda and Arthaśāstra (which were affiliated respectively to ...
The Mahābhārata (Ādi. 133. 2-3) shows that when Bhīṣma ...
...Gaut. X. 9-12, Viṣṇu Dh. S. III. 79-80, Manu VII. 82-85, Yāj. I. 315, 333). So a student, when ...
...epare the king for battle. Kaut. in his Arthaśāstra after stating several views gives his o...
... could listen to the recitation of the *Mahābhārata* and the *purāṇas* as shown above (at p...
...ly Indian citizens of a Greek poliṣ The Śāntiparva 65. 17-22 prescribes for Yavanas, Śakas and simil...
...very grave sin would be incurreḍ In the Sabhāparva ( 31. 37-38 ) it is said that through the favour of A...
...are to be avoided even among brideṣ The Mahābhārata observes ‘friendship and marriage shoul...
...dṣ There is an interesting story in the Śalyaparva chap. 52 of the daughter of Kunigarġa who...
...nd S. Pr. p. 766 quote a verso from the Mahābhārata that a man of 30 should marry a girl of...
...s charge by saying that although in the Mahābhārata (Ādiparva 219. 17-18) Subhadrā is descr...
...enumerations of gotras and pravaraṣ The Mahābhārata sets out at length the subdivisions (su...
...son and not by apostolic successioṇ The Mahābhārata says that the original gotras were only...
...at he was of the Vaiyāghrapadya gotra ( Virāṭa-parva 7. 8-12 ). That this was the gotra of the Pāṇḍa...
...th the Bhṛgus (Ṛg. VI. 15. 2-3). In the Mahābhārata it is narrated that Vitahavya, being a ki...
...thu who milked the earth is well-known (Droṇa-parva 69); he is called ‘ādirāja’ in Anuśāsana 1...
...is well known from the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, but it was confined mostly to the prin...
...eight objects which were auspiciouṣ The Droṇaparva (82. 20–22 ) mentions numerous objects which Arjuna ...
...lguni, of which Bhaga is the deity. The Mahābhārata also speaks of marriage on a nakṣatra p...
... 58, Nārada (stripuiṁsa, verses 38-39), Kauṭilya III. 1, 59th prakaraṇa, Ādi-parva 102. 12-15 (...
...ves expression to this practice. In the Mahābhārata1217 Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna who...
...or) of her (hand) though promised'. The Mahābhārata (Anuśāsana 44. 35) says that up to pāṇi...
...auḍ Dh. S. II. 3. 63-64, Manu III. 119, Sabhāparva 36. 23–24, Gobhila gr. IV. 10. 23–24. It is laid ...
... in the case of womeṇ' The Mahābhārata (Mausala-parva V. 6) tells us that Vāsudeva
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...y-8">8 the commentator of the Mahābhārata, raises (on Ādiparva 104. 35) the quest...
...and 23 more paragraphs in this volume
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...d repair of all temples). In Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra II. 4 (variously assigned to different dates ...
... ministry on earth as gathered from the Mahābhārata, the Harivaṁśa &c. were known to Patañj...
... Buddha should not be worshippeḍ In the Rāmāyaṇa (Ayodhyā- kāṇḍa 109. 34) Buddha is revi...
...Trimūrti and is a late one and that the Mahābhārata in general has no doctrine of Trimūrti, b...
...f Śiva and Viṣṇu abused each other, the Mahābhārata and some of the Purāṇas exhibit a most ...
...fish. The general rule is stated by the Rāmāyaṇa as 'whatever food a man eats the same i...
...lī, Kumārī, Lalitā &c. The Mahābhārata (Virāṭaparva 6 and Bhīṣma 23 ) contains two hymns addr...
...ets food in vain' (Rg. X. 117. 6).' The Mahābhārata (Vanaparva II. 59) says that offering f...
...hese words also occur frequently in the Rāmāyaṇa (Bālakāṇḍa 26. 5, Araṇya 23. 28) and in...
...riyaṣ There are some passages where the Mahābhārata contains the same sentiments as those of ...
...m their birth surmount all difficultieṣ Śāntiparva (34. 20) prescribes that, if a man drank liquor ...
...st pernicious of all the vices of kingṣ Kauṭilya VIII. 3 agrees with thiṣ Gaut. XII. 38 and Yāj....
...en queen Vilāsavatī on hearing from the Mahābhārata that the sonless do not reach heaven (w...
...h as in Egypt, Judea, Greece &c. In the Mahābhārata nāgas figure very frequently. Vide Adi....
... references in the other parvans of the Mahābhārata, the major portion of the Anuśāsana par...
Aparārka (p. 290) quotes the Mahābhārata for defining iṣṭa and pūrta 1992 ‘whate...
...ges and settlement of learned brāhmaṇaṣ Kaut. II. 1 also pres- cribes that lands free from ...
...granted must have been un- cultivated). Kaut. II. 1 states that land prepared for cultiva- ...
...cient timeṣ It occurs frequently in the Mahābhārata e. g. Vanaparva 68. 4, Āśramavāsiparva ...
...ra. The word ‘Mahādānāni' occurs in the Mahābhārata (Āśramavāsī-parva 3. 31, 13. 15). In th...
...lled 'anandāḥ' (without delights)." The Mahābhārata (Anuśāsana 77. 5-6) echoes the very wor...
...rovision is made for the reading of the Mahābhārata from a part of the income (in Kerala in...
...the Aśvattha tree with Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The Mahābhārata (Śānti 69. 42) forbids even the felling...
... the recitation of the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa and the purāṇas, for kīrtans to the acc...
...ntury) refers to the recitation of the `Mahābhārata` in the temple of `Mahakala` at `Ujjayi...
...d also pay a fine of five hundred paṇaṣ Kaut. III. 9 prescribes punishment for encroachment ...
... Vairīñca, Vālakhiilya and Phenapa. The Rāmāyaṇa ( Araṇya, chap. 10. 2–6 ) speaks of for...
...en also could repair to the forest. The Mausala parva-(7. 74) states that when Kṛṣṇa left the...
...e of securing release from saṁsāra. The Śalyaparva (39. 33-34) states 'whoever abandons his body at Pṛ...
...r who is over 70 may become an ascetic. Kauṭilya (II. 1) prescribes that if a person embraces th...
... for protection from extreme cold). The Mahābhārata states that wearing ochre-coloured garm...
...etics are divided into four classeṣ The Mahābhārata ( Anuśāsana 141. 89 ) says that ascetic...
...hapter-xxviii-sannyāsa-21">21 Śāntiparva (63. 16-21) allows sannyāsa to kings when their lif...
... śūdra could not become a sannyāsiṇ The Śāntiparva (63. 11-14) is quite clear that a śūdra cannot be a...
...the wife of Gautama, is well-knowṇ Vide Rāmāyaṇa I. 48 and Viṣṇupurāṇa I. 9. 21. Jaimini ( in ...
In the sabhāparva of the Mahābhārata (chap. 33-35) there is a description of...
...o him and to brāhmaṇaṣ The Bālakāṇḍa of Rāmāyaṇa (chap. 13-14) contains a more graphic d...
...d to slavery by his father according to Kauṭilya, 508. Aryan, culture, ocutre of, in Ṛgv...
...ra, 50-51; revolt against system of, in Mahābhārata, 101; system eulogised and condemned, 2...
.... Gaṇeśa, as the amanuensis of Vyāsa in Mahābhārata, 215; eight famous shrines of, 216n; im...
...ginally only four gotras **according to Mahābhārata,** 489; pravaras of same gotra differ, ...
...abandoning life in, by fasting, said in Mahābhārata to lead to mokṣa, 925. Hiṃsā (killing o...
...ished images from greed of gold, 710. **Mausala-parva**, 72, 553, 626, 697, 923. **Maxim** : ...
...Viṣṇu, 250. Moral values, emphasized in Mahābhārata in opposition to hirth, 101; highest impo...
...whom the child of niyoga belonged, 605; Mahābhārata is full of examples of, 603–604; restrict...
... the images or pictures of 726. Plants, Mahābhārata bigbly eulogises plant life, 894; six k...
...t literature, except one passage in the Mahābhārata, 427–428.
...a**, 94. **Rāmārcana-candrikā**, 675. **Rāmāyaṇa**, 87, 109, 119, 395, 445, 510n, 511, 5...
...225n; Yaugan-dhara, a division of, 225ṇ Śalyaparva, 8n, 66, 225n, 436, 444, 568, 598, 925....
...not reach heavenly worlds, according to Mahābhārata, 799; saves father from put hell, 561; ...
...of Vasudeva and sister of Kṛṣṇa, in the Mahābhārata, 460; was not the real sister of Kṛṣṇa,...
...5n, 456n, 468, 471, 474, 486n, 493n &c. Udyogaparva, 6, 8n, 69, 79, 82, 83, 84, 88, 330n, 3...
... of sexual relations in the time of the Mahābhārata, 428. UttaraRāmacarita, 119, 403, 579n,...
... kinds to, 732; made earth steady, 719; Mahābhārata teaches identity of Śiva and, 725; name...
...93; rules of conduct prescribed for, by Mahābhārata, 384; women of, in the harem of Jayadra...
Volume III 235 paragraphs
...ati, Uśanas, Bhāradvāja culled from the Mahābhārata and other ancient works *vide* my paper...
...e of government or royal power that the Mahābhārata frequently emphasizes that the king is ...
...000 chapters the science of erotics The Śāntiparva (69) gives (verses 33-74) a summary of the c...
...hapter-i-preliminary-5">5 The Mahābhārata says (Śānti 69. 102) that a wise kṣatri...
...alth (only the two objects mentioned by Kauṭilya in connec- tion with arthaśāstra). Accord...
...daya, paribhāṣā p. 19). Medhā- tithi on Manu VII. 1 explains that dharma in that verse mean...
...'line of policy' and is employed by the Arthaśāstra (I 2) when it says 'naya and anaya (bad...
...a, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda. Kauṭilya (I. 5) states that the king should listen to t...
...olicy for kingṣ So it is clear that the Mahābhārata was prepared to give up in certain circ...
... himself take possession of the kingdoṃ Kauṭilya does not approve of thiṣ But even he ad...
... 2 for replenishing a depleted treasury Kauṭilya coolly asks the king to deprive the templ...
...se and a few other works independent of Kauṭilya are mentioned in the note below.
...se in hanḍ This shows that Manu and the Mahābhārata held that there was an organic unity in...
... janapado rājyam janapadam vā bhavatiti Kauṭilyaḥ ) it as his opinion that a territory w...
... committed (Kaut I. 4, Kāmandaka II 37, Manu VII. 16, Śānti 15. 1ff, Śānti 56 21, 103 34) Śā...
...> For eulogy of the kingly office, vide Manu VII. 6-17, Śānti 63. 24-30, Śānti 68, Kāṃ I. 9-11...
... lives and by his austerities’. Compare Manu VII. 111–112, Śānti 78. 36. The Sukranītisāra (IV. 7...
...I p 1232 for thiṣ In X. 3 it is said by Kauṭilya that a virtuous king on the eve of a ba...
...like Kālidāsa (Raghu IV. 12) follow the Mahābhārata in this, as also in deriving the word ‘kṣ...
...o at one time formed a republic, acc to Kauṭilya XL 1) and he took an oath as stated in his...
...e power of daṇḍa over the king himself (Manu VII. 28). He makes use of both the theories as ...
...ut Manu and the people is alluded to by Kauṭilya (vide p. 31 above). Even here Manu prom...
...ti and Anuśāsanaparva cited above. When Manu (VII. 111-112) says that a king who harasses his kingd...
...n-angas-of-rājya-25">25. Vide Rāmāyaṇa III. 6. 14. Kālidāsa echoes this in the Śakuntala ...
...d property, (3) the fear of punishment (Manu VII. 22), (4) a primeval contract between the r...
...ppear to have been stray exceptionṣ The Śāntiparva (33.43-46 ) enjoins
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... after quoting the Kālikāpurāṇa and the Rāmāyaṇa lays down the following propositions: (1)...
...olio 21b). The Sabhāparva 5 107–109 and Rāmāyaṇa II. 100 65–67 require the king to avoid 14 faul...
... appears from the remarks he makes that Kaut. uses it only in the sense of logic base...
... and apes (on Jaiminī 1. 3. 3 ). In the Rāmāyaṇa Rāma asks Bharata not to resort to Loķā...
...e of society. The result is that in the Arthaśāstra economic matters occupy a very large sp...
...for the king, but both dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra works strongly and frequently insist up...
...y avoid gambling and hunting (XIV. 65). Kauṭilya regards gambling as the worst of the vi...
...ices). Yāj I.335 is to the same effect. Kauṭilya also lays emphasis on the duty to keep ...
...va 17 11) The same idea is presented in Śalyaparva 5 32, Śānti 97 23 and 25
...rds the king's daily routine Kaut I 19, Manu VII. 145-147, 216-226, Yāj. I 327-333, Śukranīti I. ...
...g from his bed the king was advised (by Manu VII. 37) to wait upon brāhmaṇas learned in the ...
...ive lists of ancient emperors, from the Mahābhārata, the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa and other workṣ...
...ūya and Aśvamedha in ancient India. The Sabhāparva 13.30 speaks of Rājasūya as fit to be perform...
Kauṭilya (VII. 16) prescribes that the conqueror should no...
...rāṇa 236-22 prescribe similar ruleṣ The Rāmāyaṇa (VII. 62.18–19) requires the conqueror, after uprooting...
...erous references to corona- tioṇ In the Yuddhakaṇḍa 131 we have a lengthy description of the co...
In the Mahābhārata also there are several references to an...
...oṇa in Droṇaparva 5.39-43, of Skanda in Śalyaparva 45.
...d be separately crowned after the king. Manu VII. 77 advises the king to marry a lady of nob...
... treachery from ministers and officialṣ Kaut. (in I. 10) des- cribes how ancient writers devised...
... among the Licchaviṣ This explains what Kauṭilya means by ‘rājāśabdopajīvinaḥ. These peo...
... II p. 79 ) holds that a passage in the Arthaśāstra (II. 14) refers to the fact that the Paura-Jānap...
...inted editions of Maṇḍlik and Gharpure. Kauṭilya (II. 10) devotes a chapter to the drawing up of ...
...Avanti, appears to be referred to (vide Udyogaparva 166, cr. eḍ chap 163). MacCrindle in ‘Invas...
...at the amātyas are also styled mantrins Kauṭilya states ( I. 10 ) how amātyas are to be ...
...ief Virasena to carry out the proposal. Kaut. further says (I 15) that all business w...
...-14">14 In most works such as Kaut. I. 15, Kāṃ XI. 56, Agnipurāṇa 241. 4, Pañcata...
...f-chapter-iv-ministers-16">16 Kauṭilya (I 12) speaks of the 18 tīrthas and enu...
...cers of State. First comes the Yuvarāja Kauṭilya devotes one chapter (I. 17) to taking c...
...ministers-29">29 According to Manu VII. 78 the purohita was concerned with the rel...
....19 says practically the same thing. In Kaut. V. 3 the salaries range from 48000 to 60 paṇ...
...y. Artisans and craftsmen were, acc. to Kaut., to get 120 panaṣ If this were yearly, ...
...trol, intelligence, resolutenesṣ In the Mahābhārata senāpatis are elected and consecrated (...
... another. It is my duty to say it'. The Rāmāyaṇa (V. 52. 14-15) says that good men do not allow the kil...
...ised at the machinery of espionage that Kauṭilya so elaborately describeṣ All government...
...such qualities as his country possesses Kauṭilya II 1 advises
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II
... I 17, Kāmasūtra V 6 33-41, Bārhaspatya Arthaśāstra (III 83-117), the Kāvyamīmāṁsā of Rājaś...
...-710 as to the meaning of these figureṣ Kauṭilya II. 1 says that in the kingdom groups of vill...
...d whether it bore seal- mark. In II. 22 Kauṭilya specifies various rates of tolls for im...
...any of the superintendents mentioned by Kauṭilya occur under the same names in the Kāmas...
... bestow money and honours on them'. The Mahābhārata (Sabhā 5. 54 ) prescribes
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...mentioned in the works on dharmaśāstra, Arthaśāstra and in inscriptions be collected togeth...
...own regulations and conventionṣ In XI 1 Kauṭilya refers to kṣatriya guilds in the countr...
...dināras (vide Rājataraṅgiṇi V. 84-117). Kauṭilya (II. 24) refers to the various ways in which cro...
...Ballālasena quoted above (p. 153, n 19) Kauṭilya IV 13 also gives similar rules and mention...
...ks on daiva and effort In one place the Mahābhārata (Udyoga 127. 19) contains the bravest a...
...e-territory-of-a-state-49">49 Kauṭilya (IX. 1) holds a discussion about the relative s...
...d with his ideas of three strata in the Mahābhārata says that three means appear to be the ...
...been referred to (H. Dh. vol II, p 146) Kaut. (IV. 1) gives the following ruleṣ The person gi...
...ritory-of-a-state-55">55 Even Kauṭilya (IV 13 last two verses ) falls in line ...
... is very graphically describ- ed in the Rāmāyaṇa (II. 100. 43-46) ‘I hope your country is full of hundred...
...ions from the Dhanurveda of Uśanas, the Mahābhārata, the Matsya, the Viṣṇudharmottara and o...
...(pauramukhyas or pauravṛddhaṣ II] as in Kauṭilya) appointed to help the Governor of the ...
...eeming feature of these devices is that Kauṭilya is careful to point out that they were to...
...d, trees, drugs, cattle, wealth &c Vide Manu VII 130-131, VIII 305, Viṣṇu Dh S III 25 Th...
...248 Viṣṇu adds cloth to these two Manu VII 131-132, Gaut X 27, Viṣṇu Dh S III 25, ...
...referring only to learned brāhmanaṣ The Rāmāyaṇa (III. 6. 14)
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III.6.14
...called *parīhāra*, which word occurs in Kauṭilya and also in the Hāthīgumphā Inscription...
...on a load carried on a man's shoulders (Kaut. II 21 p 111). Śukra IV. 2. 129 permits for...
...r from the country and dwell in forestṣ Manu (VII. 111- 112 ) warns kings who through folly rashly op...
...nce of dharma and energetic actionṣ The Śānti- parva (95. 17–18) states that it is better to die while f...
...un went down (Bhisma 49. 52–53). But in Droṇaparva 154 and 163. 16 ff we have a description of...
...ng to their services in the battle Vide Manu VII. 96-97 (which allow even a chariot, horse or e...
...ṣa dīptābhir-daṇḍairapi sudāruṇaiḥ). In Rāmāyaṇa VII. 32 44 we are told that at the tip of the w...
...the most inferior kind of bala (power). Udyogaparva (37 52-55 ) states that bala is of five...
...is naturally so and one who is acquireḍ Karṇaparva 88. 28 gives the four kinds somewhat different...
... (pp. 311–313) copies the very words of Kauṭilya.
...r become superior to hiṃ Medhātithi (on Manu VII 177) remarks that even an ally may beco...
...and 135 more paragraphs in this volume
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...n incurs fall (i e sin)' Manu XI 44 and Śāntiparva 34 2 are similar verses The mitākṣarā expl...
...o the vices (declared to be eighteen by Manu VII. 45–48); selling one's self (as a slave for mo...
...Compare Kauṭilya IV. 10, Gaut. XII. 48, Manu VII. 16 and VIII. 126, Yaj I. 368, Viṣṇu V. 194...
... to perpetrators of various sins In the Mahābhārata also narakaș and the torments thereof a...
...escriptions of Heaven (*svarga*) in the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas and other workṣ We have al...
...pproach of death. The Śāntiparva of the Mahābhārata (chap. 318. 9-17), Devala quoted in the...
...e Bhagavadgītā, the Bhāgavata, Bhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, the Upaniṣads like Īsāvāsya and hymns ...
... on the part of Bhīṣma (narrated in the Mahābhārata) is only meant as a eulogy of the path ...
...orks lay down many other rules here The Rāmāyaṇa (Ayodhyā 76. 13 ff) states that on the ...
... in Āśramavāsikaparva, chap. 39. In the Rāmāyaṇa (Ayodhyā, chap 76 verses 16-20 ), it is...
... oil and brought home in a cart. In the Rāmāyaṇa it is several times said that the body of...
... Rāmāyaṇa and Vasudeva's words from the Śalyaparva to Dhrtarastra on the death of Duryodha...
...art from the smṛtis and passages of the Mahābhārata (such as Anuśāsana chap. 87–92) and com...
...s the dharmaśāstras, ākhyānas, itihāsa (Mahābhārata), purāṇas and khilas (like Śrīsūkta and...
...he brāhmaṇas and the performer, and the Mahābhārata also should be recited, as it is very d...
...nd-other-shrāddhas-53">53 The Āśramavāsikaparva (14 3-4) recounts the valuable gifts to...
...laces is superior to sacrificeṣ But the Mahābhārata (Vanaparva 82, 9-12 and Anuśāsana 108. ...
...hem on Vyāsa, the reputed author of the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇaṣ Most of the writers of ...
...uld be enough, some of the texts in the Mahābhārata and Purāṇas adopted two propositions: v...
...heṃ In the Vanaparva (chap. 82-156) and Śalyaparva (chap. 35-54) alone there are about 390...
...an 1000 horses meet for sacrifice.’ The Mahābhārata (Anuśāsana 26. 26-103) and the Purāṇas ...
...sample. One remarkable fact is that the Rāmāyaṇa does not say much about Prayāga. The co...
...up>. Nīlakaṇṭha, the commentator of the Mahābhārata, holds that Vanaparva 85. 83 (na vedava...
...apital of the Kāśis by Divodāsa. In the Udyogaparva also Divodāsa is said to be the ruler o...
... chap 207 and is briefly referred to in Sabhāparva, chap. 14 18-20 and chap. 34. 11.
...e Gayā proper as known to the Epic (the Mahābhārata) is essentially a place sacred to Yama ...
...s in commoṇ The critical edition of the Mahābhārata (published by the B. O. R. I., Poona) r...
... is spoken of in the other parts of the Mahābhārata and the smṛtis In the Vanaparva itself ...
...other-famous-tīrthas-7">7 The Mahābhārata frequently speaks of the high sanctifyi...
...ctity of Kurukṣetra as described in the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇaṣ Vanaparva 83 starts by ...
... vol. 14 pp. 90-91 for the vanaṣ In the Śalyaparva (chap. 38) it is said that the world is...
...iffers in some material points from the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇaṣ In the Raghuvamśa XV.28...
The Sabhāparva (319. 23-25) narrates that Jarāsaṁdha threw his mace...
... Narmadā is frequently mentioned in the Mahābhārata and some of the Purāṇaṣ The Matsya (cha...
... as being on IV] the Narmadā or Revā in Udyogaparva 19. 23-24, 166. 4, Anuśāsana 166. 4, Bhāgavata X....
...ming austeritieṣ The Araṇyakanda of the Rāmāyaṇa (13.13 and 21) speaks of the country we...
...na was in Daṇḍakāranya according to the Śalyaparva III, 21, 19-20, Nāradiya-purāṇa II 75. 30 a...
...and Uttara kāṇḍas respectively. For the Rāmāyaṇa I have used the edition brought out by th...
...cular reference Sorensen's Index of the Mahābhārata and the Vedic Index of Macdonell and Ke...
...f purāṇas among themselves and from the Mahābhārata.
...f the Mahā- bhārata V.—Vanaparva of the Mahābhārata. Va —Vāyupurāṇa Vāṃ—Vāmanapurāṇa. Var —...
...n Pañcāla up to Carmanvatī), V. 82. 54. Droṇaparva 67 5 (the name is due to the heaps of the ...
... away, as stated in a prophetic vein by Mausala-parva 6.23-24 and 7. 41-42, B 210. 55 and 212.9. Vide...
... **Mahāśilānadī**—M 22 42 **Mahāsaras**—Mahābhārata q. by T. K. p. 246 **Mahāsthala**—(unde...
... to Nemad District of Central Provinceṣ Udyogaparva 19 23-24, 166. 4, Anu 2, 6, P. II. 92 32, ...
... (for extent of Mahākośala) M. 114. 53, Sabhāparva 21 60 and Br S. 14 9 mention Traipura coun...
...of Junāgaḍ is the Vāmana- tīrtha of the Mahābhārata Vāmaneśvara—(under Narmadā) P I 18 26 Vaṁ...
... India and built stūpas over them 236 ṇ Āśramavāsikaparva, 223, 451n, 534 Association, see under ...
...quently in Mahābhārata and sometimes in Rāmāyaṇa 223, rites of an effigy made...
... 163–166, glowing des- criptions of, in Mahābhārata and purāṇas 165, generous donor or wor-...
...s of sins 187, enemies of, according to Śānti- parva 9, how ṃ incurs sin 10, m on whose death ...
...e fruit or reward acc. to Aśv. gr. 434, Mahābhārata was among the texts to be recited when ...
...ed to dining brāhmaṇas in a śrāddha 466 Śalyaparva, 237, 582, 683n, 684n, 685, 686, 710 Sā...
... Sāntīla chapter is Vāj S 36 10 ff. 151 Śāntiparva 9, 10, 25, 54, 74, 100n, 104, 164, 166, 1...
..., 381, non-Aryans (called dasyus in the Mahābhārata) like Yavanas, Mlecchas, Kirātas, Śakas...
...er than the first 609, some smṛtis, the Mahābhārata and some purāṇas do recommend religious...
...t these in purāṇas and digests 576-577; Rāmāyaṇas and āśramas distinguished 575; not onl...
...ribed 111, ex- piation for vrātyatā 111 Udyogaparva, 704n, 707 Ūha, substituting...
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...cessarily religiouṣ For example, in the Sabhāparva 58 16 Yudhiṣṭhira says that it has been hi...
...) Another remarkable matter is that the Mahābhārata provides that brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas s...
...contains the story of Sāvitrī as in the Mahābhārata and Matsya and also (vol. II pp 272–279...
...ed the Sāvitrīvrata as described in the Mahābhārata and the purāṇas and in Hemādri and Vrat...
...ata vol I. pp 1089–1091) who quotes the Mahābhārata for it and by N S pp. 99–100. In the su...
...or as portions (of the one brahma). The Mahābhārata and some of the Purāṇas emphasize that ...
...Indian Serpent Lore, 1926) based on the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas and the Rājataraṅgiṇī. It ...
...among cowherds, which is wanting in the Mahābhārata. It appears from Pāṇini (IV. 3 98)
...ble theories such as the following: the Rāmāyaṇa was borrowed from Homer's Iliad, the ar...
...n that a śūdra could only listen to the Mahābhārata or Saptaśatī but could not read it hims...
...peaks of her as having four armṣ In the Virāṭaparva (chap. 6) where Yudhisthira praises Dur...
...t as the dates of these passages in the Mahābhārata are far from certain no chronological c...
...rkaṇḍeya-purāṇa MAT = Matsyapurāṇa MB = Mahābhārata. M Bh. = Mahābhāṣya. NA = Nirṇayāmṛta. ...
... 442–445, P. C. 316) quote a verse from Mahābhārata ‘when in the month of Pauṣa or Māgha th...
...t divisions of the day are mentioned by Kauṭilya (I. 19), Daksa (chap 2) and Kātyāyana. Kalidasa...
...V II. 526 (from Bhav.) In the Rāmāyaṇa (Yuddhakaṇḍa 107) Agastya comes to Rāma and advises him ...
...n is very holy and gifts must be made ( Rāmāyaṇa q by KR 214 ); if there be Uttarāṣāḍhā ...
...es not occur in several editions of the Rāmāyaṇa though several other verses end- ing in...
...plied to Itihāsa, Purāṇas, Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa &c. Vide KR 30 (quoting Bhav. ), TT 71,...
...0-231 for further details gathered from Kauṭilya, Br. S chap 44, Agni 268 16-31 and othe...
... and barley are eight auspicious things Droṇaparva 127.14 speaks of eight maṅgalas; Droṇa 82, 20-...
... that was called Lohābhisārika-karma In Udyogaparva 160. 93 we read 'Lohābhisāro nirvṛttaḥ' &c. Nīl...
...spoken of as vṛṣa as in Manu VIII 16 (= Śāntiparva 90 15. **Vrsanavra'a**—(1) the same as Viṣ...
...—(1) Sīta means ‘cultivated land’ as in Kauṭilya set out in H of Dh. vol. III p 147 n 18...
...a, Kāla &c. Vide for further references Śāntiparva 25. 5 ff, 224-225.
... same as the one quoted above from the *Mahābhārata* (in note 659) and which appears to hav...
...-conception-of-kāla-34">34 of Kauṭilya does not stand alone in speaking of tru...
...the Vedic timeṣ It should be noted that Kauṭilya speaks of the yuga of five saṁvatsaras ...
...hs for later times is vouchsafed by the Arthaśāstra p 108 (Sham Shastri's ed of 1919 ). A y...
...apter-xv-units-of-kāla-77">77 Kauṭilya enumerates many such matters as passion...
...master’ Yāj (I, 313), who is later than Kauṭilya by some centuries, also lays down in al...
...eration of the astronomical data in the Mahābhārata. Here we are concerned only with the be...
...-kāla-88">88 For example, the Udyogaparva says 'Mars having been retrograde in Jy...
One very remarkable feature of the Mahābhārata passages is that while they put forward...
...-xvi-muhūrta-6">6 Manu I. 64, Kauṭilya (quoted in note 681) and several purāṇa...
...ithi called pūrṇā (here the 5th) In the Udyogaparva it is stated that a purohita was sent as ...
...struc- tion of the world 849 Kauṭilya offers the curious information that a f...
...235, Viṣṇu-dharmottara II. 175-176, the Arthaśāstra in books IX (‘the work of one who wants t...
..., Arthasāstras, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa; the auspicious chiripings of cranes, c...
... would be in the house of an enemy. The Rāmāyaṇa does not mention Rāhu and Ketu at all. ...
...t were also divided into eight parts by Kauṭilya (I. 19) and by Daksa and Kātyāyana The division...
...as it exists today had been settleḍ The Mahābhārata, in spite of its vast extent and copiou...
... 681 above ). From this it follows that Kauṭilya knew only the division of the day into ...
...s elaborated among ancient works in the Mahābhārata ( Vana-parva, chapters 149, 188 and Śān...
... forth in the Vanaparva, chap 188, 190, Śānti- parva 69. 80-97, the Harivamsa ( Bhavisyaparva, chap. 3...
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...eśava' 'O Keśava! I see adverse omens), Rāmāyaṇa, Ayodhyākāṇḍa. 4. 17–19, Bhīṣma-parva 2...
...n of a cow, mouse born of an ichneumon (Yuddhakaṇḍa 35. 30). The auspicious signs described in the...
...e-of-shāntis-61">61 Parāśara, Sabhā-parva, Bṛhatsaṁhitā 45. 2, Matsyapurāṇa 229.5...
...hana challenged Bhima for a mace fight (Śalyaparva 56. 10 and 58. 49).
...na fell in the macefight with Bhīma. In Droṇaparva a flaming meteor is referred to as indi...
... or Lakṣmaṇa. In the Mauslaparva of the Mahābhārata (chap. 3. 1–4) the Yādavas saw in dream...
...harmaśāstras, Arthaśāstra, Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, Purāṇa passageṣ Matsya (chap. 243. 15-...
...ne's means, merit-giving recital of the Mahābhārata—these tend to destroy (the effects of) ...
...he Purāṇa says that the Ādiparva of the Mahābhārata or all its parvas may be employed for t...
...en Purāṇa stories were collected in the Mahābhārata. There is hardly any evidence to suppor...
...bably more honoured or popular than the Rāmāyaṇa and the Bhārata. In the Harṣacarita
..., sometimes of each single verse in the Mahābhārata must be determined separately' applies ...
...t in several connections as regards the Mahābhārata. The Bhārata war was fought for 18 days...
...y 28 arrives at the conclusion that the Mahābhārata war was fought about 1150 B.C. It is no...
...ome length on materials supplied by the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, Varāhamihira, Āryabhaṭa a...
... son of Sūta was Sauti who narrated the Mahābhārata to Śaunaka and other sages in the Naimi...
... p. 9 ). He refers to the fact that the Mahābhārata and Purāṇas are full of Vyāsa and repea...
...he most plausible is now put forth. The Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas (a very extensive liter...
...ordinary) *brāhmaṇas* and *kṣatriyas*'. Kauṭilya means that in his days sūta and māgadha...
...ust have occurred some centuries before Kauṭilya who was aware of the low position of sū...
...t Aśvamedha is the origin of Purāṇa and Mahābhārata. Then on p.202 of the paper In question...
... the Gopathabrāhmaṇa, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, the smṛtis and dharmaśāstras of Gautam...
... to the Mahābhārata in the latter e. g. Udyogaparva 136. 18-19 and Svargārohaṇika 5. 49 and 51 quoted ...
...y than even the critical edition of the Mahābhārata. Therefore, most chronological conclusi...
...ma is older than the same legend in the Mahābhārata ( vide I. H. Q., vol. XX. p. 209 for Lü...
...urrent Brahma borrows chapters from the Mahābhārata, Viṣṇu, Vāyu and Mārkaṇḍeya and that th...
...aṣ Many verses of the Manusmṛti and the Mahābhārata occur in it. Some verses of Yāj. also o...
...ions put by Jaimini to Mārkaṇḍeya about Mahābhārata saga, viz. (1) why nirguṇa Vāsudeva ass...
...eya quotes several verses from Manu and Mahābhārata. Mārkaṇḍeya contains some long drawn ou...
...r appears to be an echo from Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra (I. 6 p. 11 'Dāṇḍakyonāma Bhojaḥ kāmāt ...
...s in the Purāṇa that appear also in the Mahābhārata, Manu and Matsya. For its relation to B...
.... It is likely that all borrow from the Mahābhārata, Ādiparva 75. 44 ff., 85. 9 ff. and Anu...
...hap. 104 and 150 about Hariścandra), in Sabhāparva chap. 12 (for Hariścandra) and in Anuśāsa...
...t surpasses (the other viz. Veda)'. The Mahābhārata also makes a similar claiṃ The Purāṇas ...
... the Purāṇas, the Mahābha- rata and the Rāmāyaṇa embody pristine traditions and thoughts...
...the H. of Dh. vol. II. pp. 837-888. The Mahābhārata in numerous places (particularly in the w...
...e Mahābhārata 1523 (e. g. in Droṇaparva 192. 38, Śānti 265. 6, 329. 18, Anuśāsana 115, ...
...hest bliss in all the four Vedaṣ In the Droṇaparva (29. 26-29) there is another and different referenc...
It may be noted that even in the Mahābhārata Nārada's name is connected with Pāñcarā...
...of bhakti towards Rāma, regarded in the Rāmāyaṇa and in popular tradition as a paragon o...
... of the avatāras are not uniform in the Mahābhārata. In the Nārāyaṇīya section of the Śānti...
...nd note 224 above for references in the Mahābhārata and Purāṇas to Paraśurāma's exploitṣ Th...
...6, Agni 5–11 (the seven *kāṇḍas* of the Rāmāyaṇa are summarised), Vāyu 88. 183–198, Bhāg...
...lya's work. Vide the author's paper on 'Kauṭilya and the Matsya-purāṇa' in Dr. B. C. Law...
...urāṇas and Rāmāyaṇa (Mahābhārata-Purāṇa-Rāmāyaṇa-nurāgiṇā &c ). This is put down as the ...
...e Mahābhārata (Śānti 270. 6–11) and the Rāmāyaṇa, (Ayodhyā 10b, 2) and the Purāṇas also ...
...s it. The 15th adhikarana of Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra bears the title 'Tantrayukti' (vide J. ...
...-dharmashastra-25">25 viz. in Virāṭaparva (chap. 6) by Yudhiṣṭhira and the other ...
...eading. Wine was drunk by people in the Mahābhārata times, but not as part of a religious r...
...iśam- pāyana-Paila-Sūtra-bhāṣya-Bhārata—Mahābhārata—Dharma- cāryāḥ.’ The above passages mak...
...r of the VS was the same as that of the Mahābhārata and the Gītā he would not have cited pa...
...nd that when the final redaction of the Mahābhārata (including the Gītā) was made the verse...
...ly connected with the Sāma- veda by the Mahābhārata and Purāṇas, why is it that that sūtra ...
##1. The Mahābhārata and some Purāṇas state that Jaimini was...
...oning may be put forward as regards the Mahābhārata, the reply is that Vyāsa is the author ...
...ation and dissolution is opposed to the Mahābhārata and Gītā (X. 8 ‘ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo ...
...deas about svarga are invalid, that the Mahābhārata and Purāṇas, being composed by men, nee...
...rding to the traditional account in the Mahābhārata lived at the end of Dvāpara age i. e. about...
...e hortatory passages of *Itihāsa* (the *Mahābhārata*) and Purāṇas, both of which are often ...
...vāsavakṣībau dṛṣṭau me Keśavārjunau' in Udyogaparva 59. 5 ) and married their maternal uncle's da...
...āṅkhyam Yoga Lokāyatam cetrayīnvīkṣikī’ Arthaśāstra I. 2. p. 6.). Therefore, we may say that Sāṅ...
...s of the Sāṅkhya systeṃ First comes the Mahābhārata.
...āṣya on V. S. II. 2. 37. Therefore, the Mahābhārata references to Sāṅkhya probably relate t...
...rine of Pañcaśikha in these chapters of Śāntiparva is really advaita (monism) on which are g...
Pañcaśikha figures frequently in the Mahābhārata. In Śāntiparva, chap. 307 (containing o...
... Keith holds that the Pañcaśikha of the Śāntiparva is not identical with Pañcaśikha, the aut...
...apila. Some references to Kapila in the Mahābhārata have already been noteḍ In Vanaparva (2...
...ther in the Upaniṣads as well as in the Mahābhārata, the Bhagavadgītā and the Purāṇas and t...
...the present writer to be later than the Mahābhārata, Manu and probably the Yogaśūtra, they ...
In the Śāntiparva it is stated that the propounder
In Śalyaparva (chap. 50) a story is told about bhikṣu...
...asing the words of the Upaniṣad and the Mahābhārata.
...om Vedavyāsa, the reputed author of the Mahābhārata.
...ny years as a bhikṣu and adept in Yoga (Śalyaparva, chap. 50). It has to be remembered tha...
...s that Vyāsa, the reputed author of the Mahābhārata (including the Gītā), flourished toward...
... be referred to here (the cr. eḍ of the Mahābhārata is relied upon). In the Śāntiparva, chap....
.... 29, Vasiṣṭha 16. 36, Ādiparva 82. 16, Śānti-parva 34. 25 and 165. 30, quoted in H. of Dh. vol. I...
...d-dharmashastra-82">82 of the Mahābhārata provides that the yogin should subsist ...
...rāyaṇī Up. VI. 29 for similar wordṣ The Śāntiparva in a chapter dealing with spiritual knowl...
...rya in his bhāṣya quotes a verse of the Śāntiparva in support of thiṣ
...8) who quotes a verse in support of the Mahābhārata and another verse also (the source of w...
...nts of creation occur frequently in the Mahābhārata, mostly in the Śāntiparva. All cannot b...
... singular (Ṛg. I. 37. 7, V. 56. 4). The Mahābhārata, Śabara, Purāṇas and the Bṛhat-saṃhitā ...
...ḍ The Śāntiparva 2525 of the Mahābhārata refers to the northern and southern pat...
The Rāmāyaṇa gives expression to the belief that sor...
... kṣatriya and Nārada a brāhmaṇa. In the Mahābhārata, Manu-smṛti and the Purāṇas both of the...
The Mahābhārata has certain interesting verses on the t...
...superiority of effort from the Vasiṣṭha-Rāmāyaṇa. About mumukṣu Acyutarāya advises going...
.... 129. 2, q. above on p. 1487 ). In the Mahābhārata, Purāṇas, in classical Sanskrit Poetry ...
...318 note 2168. To these three debts the Mahābhārata added a fourth viz. the debt owed to al...
...ore Śāstra emphasizes abstention)'. The Rāmāyaṇa (Araṇyakāṇda 9.30) contains a statement...
... are meant for all ordinary people. The Rāmāyaṇa 2615 quotes a popular verse ...
...e for example, Vanaparva (chapter 180), Virāṭaparva 50. 4-7, Udyoga 23. 26, 40. 25-29, शान्ति 188. ...
...s followed the profession of arms ' and Kauṭilya ( IX. 2 ) also refers to armies of brāhmaṇas, kṣa...
...Ādiparva 63. 96–97 and 114, 106. 24–28, Udyogaparva 41. 5 ) and Dharma-vyādha ( Vanaparva 207 ) p...
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