Download or read book The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol. 10 written by Pratap Chandra Roy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol. 10: Translated Into English Prose From the Original Sanskrit Text; Santi Parva (Part III), And Anusasana Parva (Part I) The help of that knowledge (which their philosophy imparts). The end that of all perpetrators of wicked acts. And the diverse ends that overtake those who have taken birth among the intermediate orders. Ascertaining the diverse declarations of the Vedas. The courses of seasons. The fading of years. Of months. Of fortnights. And of days. Beholding directly the waxing and the waning of the Moon. Seeing the rising and the ebbing of the seas. And the diminution of wealth and its increase once more. And the separation of united objects. The lapse of Yugas. The destruction of mountains. The drying up of rivers. The deterioration of (the purity of) the several orders and the end also of that deterioration occurring repeatedly beholding the birth. Decrepitude. Death. And sorrows of creatures. Knowing truly the faults attaching to the body and the sorrows to which human beings are subject. And the vicissitudes to which the bodies of creatures are subject. And understanding all the faults that attach to their own souls, and also all the inauspicious faults that attach to their own bodies (the followers of the Sankhya philosophy succeed in attaining to Emancipation). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.