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takes him by the hand ; and, rising, conducts him 

 to a place, where a man was sleeping. He calls 

 the sleeper by various appellations suitable to the 

 priest's doctrine; but without succeeding in 

 avyakening him : he then rouses the sleeper by 

 stirring him ; and, afterwards, addressing the 

 priest, asks, " While that man was thus asleep, 

 where was his soul, which consists in intellect? 

 and whence came that soul when he was awaken- 

 edr" Ga'rgya could not solve the question : and 

 the king then proceeds to explain the nature of 

 soul and mind, according to the received notions 

 of the Veddnta. As it is not the purpose of this 

 essay to consider those doctrines, I shall not here 

 insert the remainder of the dialogue. 



The next, occupying a single article, is a con- 

 versation between Ya'jnyawalcya, and his wife, 

 Maitre'yi'. He announces to her his intention 

 of retiring from the civil world ; requests her con- 

 sent, and proposes to divide his effects between 

 her, and his second wife, Ca'tya'yani'. She 

 asks, " Should I become immortal, if this whole 

 earth, full of riches, were mine?" " No," re- 

 plies Ya'jnyawalcya, " riches serve for the 

 means of living ; but immortality is not attained 

 through wealth." Maitre'yi' declares she'has no 

 use, then, for that, by which she may not become 

 immortal; and solicits from her husband the com- 

 munication of the knowledge, which he possesses, 

 on the means, by which beatitude may be attain- 

 ed. Ya'jnyawalcya, answers, " Dear wert thou 

 to me; and a pleasing [sentiment] dost thou make 

 known : come, sit down ; I will expound [that 

 doctrine] ; do thou endeavour to comprehend it.'* 

 A discourse follows, in which Ya'jnyawalcya elu- 

 cidates the notion, that abstraction procures im- 

 mortality; because affections are relative to the 



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