The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)
The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
! See note 7 on last page. The sequence of ideas seems not to be properly brought out here. In the course of transmigration after their course of conduct is altered they become men, and then proceed to heaven. This seems the real sense here. ? To return to life and death, and so on, until they fit themselves for final emancipation. Cf. Apastamba Il, 5, 11, 10-11.
5 Cf. Khandogya, p. 350.
* This is not very clear, and the commentators give but little help. The meaning probably is, that they gradually, in course of improvement, cross beyond the Sûdra caste, and all those qualities or tempers of mind, and so forth, which have been stated to appertain to the quality of darkness.
5 Cf. Sankhya-karika, pp. 47, 48,and Vakaspati’s comment. There these are identified with the ‘afflictions’ of the Yoga-sâstra—ignorance, self-consciousness, affection, aversion, persistent attachment, and they are five divisions of false knowledge, or the quality of darkness, as it is here called, See, too, Svetâsvatara (comm.), p. 284.
! See note 7 on the last page. The sequence of ideas does not seem to be properly brought out here. During transmigration, after their course of conduct is altered, they become men, and then proceed to heaven. This appears to be the real sense here. ? To return to life and death, and so on, until they fit themselves for final emancipation. Cf. Apastamba II, 5, 11, 10-11.
5 Cf. Khandogya, p. 350.
* This is not very clear, and the commentators give but little help. The meaning probably is that they gradually, in the course of improvement, cross beyond the Sûdra caste, and all those qualities or tempers of mind, and so forth, which have been said to belong to the quality of darkness.
5 Cf. Sankhya-karika, pp. 47, 48, and Vakaspati's comment. There these are identified with the 'afflictions' of the Yoga-sâstra—ignorance, self-consciousness, affection, aversion, persistent attachment—and they are five divisions of false knowledge, or the quality of darkness, as it is called here. See, too, Svetâsvatara (comm.), p. 284.