 What is this world?' says a Brahman sage. 'It is even as the bough of a tree, on which a bird rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.  Indian pictures - Page viiiby William Urwick - 1881Full view - About this book
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 238 pages
...to pray, not to fight, and having his thoughts ever fixed on study and contemplation. ' What is this world ? ' says a Brahman sage. ' It is even as the...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' The Modern Br&hmans. — The Brdhman s, therefore, were a body of men who, in an early stage of this... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 580 pages
...having his thoughts ever fixed on study and contemplation. ' What is this world ? ' says a Brdhman sage. ' It is even as the bough of a tree, on which...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' It may be objected that so severe a life of discipline could Brahman never be led by any large class... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1882 - 948 pages
...from the tumults of war, and having his thoughts ever fixed on study and contemplation. c What is this world ? ' says a Brahman sage. ' It is even as the bough of a tree on on which a bird rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' " The Brahmans, therefore, were... | |
 | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1884 - 672 pages
...put on a new and more glorious one." " WHAT is THIS WORLD?" said a Brahman sage ; "IT is EVEN AS A BOUGH OF A TREE, ON WHICH A BIRD RESTS FOR A NIGHT, AND IN THE MORNING FLIES AWAY." Therefore he seeks to attain to a perfect indifference • to the pleasures or pains of the body, in... | |
 | George Edward Raum - 1885 - 448 pages
...mendicancy, asceticism and absorption. Throughout life he practised strict abstinence, recognizing the transitory vanity of human life. " What is the...changes of history the Brahman in India, refined in feature, tall and slender, has calmly ruled. Brahmanism in its growth and spread is strikingly illustrated... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1886 - 790 pages
...shut off from the tumults of war, and his thoughts fixed on study and contemplation. 'What is this world?' says a Brahman sage. ' It is even as the bough...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' It may be objected that so severe a life of discipline could Brahman never be led by any large class... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1886 - 792 pages
...of war, and his thoughts fixed on study and contemplation. ' What is this world ? ' says a Brdhman sage. ' It is even as the bough of a tree, on which...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' It may be objected that so severe a life of discipline could Brahman never be led by any large class... | |
 | Sir William Wilson Hunter - 1895 - 270 pages
...to pray, not to fight, and having his thoughts ever fixed on study and contemplation. 'What is this world?' says a Brahman sage. 'It is even as the bough...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' The Modern Brahmans. — The Brahmans, therefore, were a body of men who, in an early stage of this... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1897 - 268 pages
...having his thoughts ever fixed on study and contemplation. ' What is this world ? ' says a Brdhman sage. ' It is even as the bough of a tree, on which...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.' The Modern Brahmans. — The Brahmans, therefore, were a body of men who, in an early stage of this... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 444 pages
...to pray, not to fight, and having his thoughts ever fixed on study and contemplation. " What is this world ? " says a Brahman sage. " It is even as the...rests for a night, and in the morning flies away." The Brahmans, therefore, were a body of men who, in an early stage of this world's history, bound themselves... | |
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