The Laws of Manu
Translated by Georg Bühler
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The opening
Chapter I.
i. The great sages approached Manu, who was seated with a collected mind, and, having duly worshipped him, spoke as follows:
2. ‘Deign, divine one, to declare to us precisely and in due order the sacred laws of each of the (four chief) castes (varaa) and of the intermediate ones.
3. ‘For thou, O Lord, alone knowest the purport, (i. e.) the rites, and the knowledge of the soul, (taught) in this whole ordinance of the Self:existent (Svayambhu), which is unknowable and unfathomable.’
4. He, whose power is measureless, being thus asked by the high-minded great sages, duly honoured them, and answered, ‘Listen! ’
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About this edition
- The words
- Georg Bühler's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
- The scanning library's cover, read as marks by the OCR (8 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- The scanning library's stamp (St Michael's College library, Toronto, 'ENTERED JUN - 1 1995') (4 blocks)
- A half-title 'LAWS OF MANU.'
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 3 places
- A lone accent mark or speck in the verse area, read by the OCR as “A” (14 blocks)
- A lone accent mark or speck in the verse area, read by the OCR as “. ^ ,”
- A lone accent mark or speck in the verse area, read by the OCR as “«”
- A lone accent mark or speck in the verse area, read by the OCR as “J” (2 blocks)
- A lone accent mark or speck in the verse area, read by the OCR as “o” (2 blocks)
- A lone accent mark or speck in the verse area, read by the OCR as “A A” (3 blocks)
- The index
- The series' Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Sacred Books of the East (635 blocks)
- The scanning library's catalogue slip and back cover (20 blocks)