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When a person is cast into the fire (cremated), their own self-done karma follows them. Therefore, a person should painstakingly and gradually accumul...
An offering properly cast into the fire reaches the sun. From the sun, rain is born. From rain, food; and from food, living beings. This verse descri...
You perceive a fire-like form; you tremble from the cold wind yet burn like a lotus. O slender one, by whom has this lovesick affliction been caused i...
Through fire-sacrifices, saffron robes, matted hair, and animal skins—having first made people trust him, he then plunders them like a wolf. This ver...
The morning shade, a fire of dry grass, service to a lowly person, water on a cloth, the affection of a prostitute, and the love of a wicked person—al...
In front, behind, in the middle, on the sides, and all around, it shines like a flash of lightning, with the splendor of ten million suns. This is a ...
(Attributed to Parashurama) In front of me, the four Vedas; behind me, a bow with arrows. I am proficient in both—in cursing and in shooting arrows. ...
The left foot forward and the right one bent back—this is to be done as the ālīḍha stance, with both hands spread wide. A technical instruction descr...
Leaning on the mountain peaks with its extremely reddish gentle rays as if with hands, did the sun enter the ocean's depths, or the earth's? A beauti...
An ornament imperceptible to the ear... a momentary perfuming for the mouth—O beloved, you did not become my lover, and so the great knowledge of crea...
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