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As to Ethicks, the Veda's contain all that relates to 

 the duties of kings; the Pur&iid's, what belongs to the 

 relation of hufbandand wife; and the duties of friend- 

 ship and fociety (which complete the triple divifion) are 

 taught fuccinftly in both : this double divifion ofAnga's 

 and Upanga's, may be confidered as denoting the dou- 

 ble benefit ariiing from them in theory and practice. 



The Bhdrata and Rdmayana, which are both epick 

 poems, comprife the molt valuable part of ancient 

 hiftory. 



For the information of the lower claffes in religious 

 knowledge, the Pajupata, the Pancharaira, and other 

 works, lit for nightly meditation, were compofed by 

 Siva, and others, in a hundred and ninety-two parts,on 

 different fubjects. 



What follow are not really divine, but contain infi- 

 nite contradictions. Sdnchya is twofold; that with 

 Iswara, and that without Jswara. The former is en- 

 titled Pdtanjala, in ojie chapter of four lections, and is 

 ufeful in removing doubts by pious contemplation : the 

 fecond. or Capila, is in fix chapters, on the production 

 of ail things by the union of Pracriti, or nature, and 

 Puru/Jia, or the firji male : it comprifes alfo, in eight 

 parts, rules for devotion, thoughts on the invifible 

 power, and other topicks. Both thefe works contain a 

 lludied and accurate enumeration of natural bodies and 

 their principles ; whence this philofophy is named 

 Sanchya. Others hold, that it was fo called from its 

 reckoning three for 



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