Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistent punctuation has been silently corrected.
Obvious misspellings have been silently corrected, and the following
corrections made to the text. Other spelling and hyphenation variations
have not been modified.
Page number for chapter CXXXIX in table of contents, corrected
from 342-> 742.
Page number for chapter CLXV in table of contents, corrected
from 808-> 880.
Page number for chapter CLXXXXIV in table of contents, corrected
from 1745-> 1045.
Page 570, section 16 - missing line “_nihilo nihil reverti posse_; there the
whole universe is a void nothing).” added from from the Parimal
edition.
Page 653, section 12 - fool -> foul
Page 658, section 9 - with -> without
Page 708, section 55 - there was darkness nor day -> there was <neither> darkness nor day
Page 799, section 7 - of one's or bad -> of one's good or bad
Page 980, section 17 - creator -> creation
Page 901, section 1 - He who is delighted -> He who is <neither> delighted
Page 901, section 2 - whose mind is moved -> whose mind is <not> moved
The spelling of Sanskrit words are normalized to some extent, including
correct/addition of accents where necessary. Note that the author uses
á, í, ú to indicate long vowels. This notation has not been changed.
The LPP edition (1999) which has been scanned for this ebook, is of
poor quality, and in some cases text was missing. Where possible, the
missing/unclear text has been supplied from another edition, which has
the same typographical basis (both editions are photographical reprints
of the same source, or perhaps one is a copy of the other): Bharatiya
Publishing House, Delhi 1978.
A third edition, Parimal Publications, Delhi 1998, which is based on an
OCR scanning of the same typographical basis, has also been consulted.
The term “Gloss.” or “Glossary” probably refers to the extensive
classical commentary to Yoga Vásishtha by Ananda Bodhendra Saraswati
(only available in Sanskrit).
Angle brackets: <...> have been used by the transcriber to indicate
editing of the text to insert missing words. The translator (in a very
few places) uses square brackets [...].
THE
YOGA-VÁSISHTHA
MAHÁRÁMÁYANA
OF
VALMIKI
in 4 vols. in 7 pts.
(Bound in 4.)
Vol. 4 (In 2 pts.)
Bound in one.
Containing
The Nirvana-Prakarana, Uttaradha
_Translated from the original Sanskrit_
_By_
VIHARI-LALA MITRA
THE
YOGA-VÁSISHTHA-MAHÁRÁMÁYANA
CHAPTER CVI.
Invalidation of the Doctrine of cause and effect 569