Bhagavad-Gítá or the sacred lay ; a colloquy between Krishna and Arjuna on divine matters : an episode from the Mahabharata

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material regions, from which the soul sooner or later returns again to earth, to undergo a new regeneration. But if the soul be finally emancipated, it is united with the Supreme Being, and does not proceed to one of those regions, but is free from ail possibility of regeneration on earth, Standin» absolutely, as it does here, मुक्त has the sense of being finally emancipated, and, in order to make the sentence clear, some ablative must be supplied after मुक्तः in order to deprive it of its absolute meaning, since it is clear that the लोकान पुण्यक मेण refers to the regions over which the deities preside, and not to the beg of the Supreme One, which cannot be expressed by the plural number, bemg one and simple. Since, then, aa: is absolute, we must not be satisfied with understanding an ablative depending on it, but must actually supply one im the text. This is done very easily, by converting ¥QaT4_ into BATA which simply necessitates the replacing of the anuswara over ब्भ ल्लोकान्‌ by the sign ¢ before it. The sense of the context and the whole passage is then rendered clear. In shls, 68 and 69 he speaks of the Br4hman who transmits the Yoga doctrines to his fellowcreatures, and is rewarded by final emancipation. In shl. 70

he mentions the Brahman students and Kshatriyas who study