1 99 : p. 7 To the sainted Bards, to the nine poets, to the Siva creed, to his essence, and to the boon-granting Gem, to those who attend in the heaven of Siva, to the god himself and to thy teacher--pray for aid of Vema. 1 The unborn (see 556) the slayer of "sharabha" endowed with the qualities of Siv...
400 499 : 400 Reading, reading, reading still reading and still reading. Reading and reading, reading, some reading yet he cannot read so as to discern the great secret. 401 Who are those we everywhere term wife and husband. If thou will (take the trouble to) carefully view them, the truth is evident; but...
Untitled : VERSES OF VEMANA Translated From The Telugu By C.P. BROWN [1829] Title Page Preface to Vemana 1-99 100-199 200-299 300-399 400-499 500-599 600-699 700-799 800-899 900-999 1000-1099 1100-1199 1200-1215
1100 1199 : 1100 If we kill, sin is contracted; by not slaying virtue attaches But to the omniscient, whether he slay or save, neither attaches. How can that death be slain that thus slay Siva? (a very difficult grammatical construction to translate). p. 264 1101 You may straighten a tree to prevent its being...
600 699 : 600 The grief of a poor man becomes a great demon, an unuttered (invisible) trouble cannot be spoken (seen); But the anxieties of a rich man are still greater. What can there be beyond this? 601 The writing written by the hand perishes (spoil) not though thou blot it out (spoil it). What is...
900 999 : 900 See how the Locomotives (jangams) eat immovable creatures. How animals eat vegetables of many different tastes. Then all animals soon eat themselves, O Vema! (Note the verbs are masculine), 901 If we go on worshipping (shactis)the demigods, what is the use of men any more in the earth. Think...
200 299 : 200 p. 57 Every thing is called the act of deity. But there is a deity superior to this god. That god slew Vishnu and he destroyed the appearance of Siva ("abhava") Surely this is the great God indeed if thou consider it well. 201 They call a pot, olla; they name a hill, collis; salt they call...
500 599 : 500 The earth is the noble mother; the seed is the father, the crops are sons, the produce of cattle (i.e., milk etc.), is heaven (because milk in various forms is offered in sacrifice), virtue is divinity. That is Truth. 501 The farmer begins by cutting hastily down the flower gardens of the god...
100 199 : 100 By mere thinking shalt) thou attain truth? If thou meditate not, but remain still shalt thou reach it? By thinking neither on thought nor on the absence, this is true path and beatitude. 101 If thou fix the sight of both thy eyes equally and thy mind he similarly fixed, if thou restrain all...
1000 1099 : 1000 If you one day put your anus in your hand and wash it, what have you gained? How much so ever you wash the scales off your teeth, will its stink ever depart? 1001 p. 241 Of gifts, the gift of food is the noblest. In music, the melody of the "Sama Veda" is the sweetest, In meditation th...
Preface To Vemana : p. i PREFACE TO VEMANA This author has attained great celebrity in his own country and in the adjacent parts of India; some information regarding his country and language may however be acceptable to the reader. Telugu is a principal language of the peninsula of India. It is ancient; and has been...
300 399 : 300 As for the gifts of land bestowed on Brahmins, you may mention your having bestowed it. But if you tell others of your having made a Brahmin any other gift you shall lose the whole merit there of. 301 p. 81 It is lawful to tell all men in the court that you have made a gift of land. But of any...
700 799 : 700 Consider that thy mother and father are thy first instructors; Parvati and Siva are the greatest of teachers. It is a shame to call those teachers who are hired. 701 Whatever orpiment may be, there is not the least tin in it, though the three (powder, tin and lead) be found, it is not attached...
800 899 : p. 195 800 Whatever creed we examine all are the creed of woman; besides, assuredly my creed is the creed of woman! For love is the aim of every enquiry. He who comprehendeth my creed he is the excellent. 801 When the husband; son--both (join) at once look at the wife's breasts with constant gaze;...
1200 1215 : 1200 p. 286 In this world there is not the blessing of complete happiness they say, how then should that happiness be attained in the next world? If death were not present with us from the first, how should it at last visit us. (Our ultimate good or bad fate is but a continuation of our present...
Title Page : VERSES OF VEMANA TRANSLATED BY C.P. BROWN [1829] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , April 2005. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain worldwide. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.
