Yoga Vasishtha--Mitra translation Collection
The Yoga Vasishtha Maharamayana
of Valmiki
Translated from the original Sanskrit By
VIHARI-LALA MITRA
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from the preface;
In this age of the cultivation of universal learning and its investigation into the deep recesses of the dead languages of antiquity,when the literati of both continents are so sedulously employed in exploring the rich and almost inexhaustible mines of the ancient literature of this country, it has given an impetus to the philanthropy of our wise and benign Government to the institution of a searching inquiry into the sacred language of this land. And when the restoration of the long lost works of its venerable sages and authors through the instrumentality of the greatest bibliomaniac savants and linguists inthe several Presidencies,* has led the literary Asiatic Societies of the East and West to the publication of the rarest and most valuable Sanskrit Manuscripts, it cannot be deemed preposterous in me to presume,to lay before the Public a work of no less merit and sanctity than any hitherto published.
* Dr. Rajendra Lala Mitra in Bengal, Benares and Orissa; Dr.Buhler in Guzrat; Dr. Keilhorn in the Central Provinces; Dr. Burnell and other Collectors of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Presidencies of Bombay,Madras and Oudh, whose notices and catalogues have highly contributed to bring the hidden treasures of the literature of this country to light.
The Yoga Vasishtha is the earliest work on Yoga or Speculative and Abstruse philosophy delivered by the venerable Vedic sage Vasishtha to his royal pupil Ráma; the victor of Rávana, and hero of thefirst Epic Rámáyana, and written in the language of Válmiki, the prime bard in pure Sanskrit, the author of that popular Epic, and Homer of India.
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