| Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated parts of Indian classics including the scriptures and laid the foundations for comparative philology. |
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| Until recent times, scriptures were inscribed on these flat, oblong leaves using a stylus and lampblack. |
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| People are being milked for every last dime and scriptures are quoted out of context. |
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| The Kathaks were mainly men who narrated the scriptures using music and mime. |
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| Drawing on ancient scriptures, content includes learning the proper performance of yagnas, samskaras, puja, Vedic astrology and more. |
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| In 771 he presented a petition to the throne asking that 77 scriptures in 101 scrolls that he had translated be added to the canon of scriptures. |
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| Tibetan monks will go around Paoma Mountain on the edge of the city to chant scriptures. |
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| A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor. |
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| Veda, Ramayan and Gita are the three and the only three supreme scriptures of Hindus. |
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| The scriptures followed by the trainees are the Mahayana sutras, taught by the Buddha and other Buddhist masters. |
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| A commoner can practice the latter two means of attaining salvation, even if he is illiterate and unable to study the scriptures on his own. |
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| Latter-day scriptures and other sources do not explicitly state that eternal law exists independently or coeternally with God. |
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| It must be rooted in the most difficult strictures of the scriptures of the major religions and the deepest springs of the human heart. |
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| According to the scriptures angels are messengers of God and visitors from heaven. |
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| Some follow the smrti-sastra composed of twenty religious scriptures, and others follow the Puranas and the tantra-sastra. |
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| The lectors minister the presence of God who speaks when the scriptures are proclaimed in church. |
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| No, Paul was not an antichrist, of which there are many according to the scriptures. |
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| No more scriptures, reverend, and no more discussions about my supposed duties. |
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| And eventually the scriptures filled his very soul and his being was infused with the Grace of God, and he was ready for the final test. |
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| He was an almsgiver with a firm determination to study Buddhist scriptures. |
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| We ask only that the reader prayerfully consider the scriptures, the information, and the arguments in the text. |
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| The ancient Indian scriptures written in Sanskrit becomes familiar ground once the language barrier is broken, he adds. |
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| In recent e-mail to Willimon, I told him I respect him as a man of God and of the scriptures. |
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| The Pauranas are called Dharma Shastras, scriptures on Dharma, how to live a righteous life. |
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| She was into all things mysterious, be it ancient scrolls, foreign scriptures, alien mysteries or cryptic rhymes. |
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| Without once explicitly citing Israel's scriptures, it contains more allusions thereto than any other New Testament writing. |
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| He saw himself as a professor of the holy scriptures and a teacher of the church. |
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| The fact that the devil also knows the scriptures should give us some cause for concern over the popular bibliolatry of our age. |
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| By dinner time I've memorized the themes and meanings of the names of all the minor prophets, as well as significant scriptures in each. |
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| These movements demand strict conformity to sacred scriptures and to a moral code ostensibly based on these scriptures. |
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| In the language of the scriptures, becoming a son or daughter of Christ is to re-establish that familial relationship which was destroyed by sin. |
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| Valmiki was a killer dacoit who reformed, became a Sage and wrote the Sanskrit Ramayana, one of the great sacred scriptures of the world. |
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| The ancient scriptures believed the Yamuna to be sacred enough to purify one's soul. |
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| Finally you get the Devil quoting scriptures for his own purposes when he turns the story of Jacob. |
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| What exactly did it mean to conform one's life to the gospel, to act according to the testimony of the scriptures? |
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| The following morning, the Granthi wakes up the Guru, carrying the scriptures back to the throne. |
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| If Warners does not accept the Hindu demands, the Hindu community will not be a silent spectator to the humiliation of its religious beliefs and scriptures. |
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| The purpose of these scriptures is to regulate in all detail the life within the community of monks and nuns as well as their relationship with the laity. |
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| Roy used the philosophical ideas found in the earliest Hindu scriptures to criticize the polytheism and some of the practices of popular Hinduism, such as sati. |
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| But the daughter now lectures the Mayo voters as if she had a God-given right to their support within the sacred scriptures of Fianna Fail opportunism. |
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| The holy scriptures enjoin that people should have a holy dip in the Krishna, offer charity and perform oblations to gods in memory of their ancestors. |
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| An ex teacher, Bishop Marona has a distinguished academic background, has written several books and translated the scriptures into his own Baka language. |
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| As these Enlightened Dissenters were Trinitarians, they felt the need to demonstrate and justify the rationality of the scriptures and the validity of Christ's messiahship. |
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| Further, one has to ensure the contents of the scriptures are not diluted. |
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| They all believe in God and His angels, His scriptures, and His Prophets. |
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| The revelation of God is found in the Word of God, the gospel enshrined in the scriptures, and all claims for revelation must be brought back and tested there. |
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| Brinley Jones describes this as his first major contribution towards presenting the scriptures in Welsh. |
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| As per Hindu scriptures, Deepavali marks the victory of virtue over evil as depicted in Hindu scriptures or Puranas. |
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| They are correct in this assertion, but fail to emphasize that Smyth's view of inerrant scriptures is clearly limited to matters of doctrine. |
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| Unlike Nathan, Fowles is not an inerrantist vis-a-vis interpreting the scriptures. |
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| Major scriptures include the Vedas and Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Agamas. |
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| Is not this a proper kind of reasoning? is this the reverence due to the scriptures, thus babishly to abuse them? |
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| It began to develop early in the history of the Church, but is not mentioned in the scriptures. |
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| Hindu scriptures were composed, memorized and transmitted verbally, across generations, for many centuries before they were written down. |
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| These symbols gain their meaning from the scriptures or cultural traditions. |
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| Mahayana schools consider the Mahayana Sutras as authoritative scriptures and accurate rendering of Buddha's words. |
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| With the increased emphasis on studying the scriptures after the Reformation, many schools added Greek and, in a few cases, Hebrew. |
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| There is also, usually in the nave, a raised pulpit from which the dean or other clergy can expound the scriptures. |
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| In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. |
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| As much as the Orthodox Church reveres and depends on the scriptures, they cannot compare to the Word of God's manifest action. |
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| In this view, Christ is the revelation of God, and the scriptures witness to this revelation rather than being the revelation itself. |
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| His translation of the scriptures into Welsh laid the foundations of modern Welsh prose. |
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| Although Roman religion was not based on scriptures and exegesis, priestly literature was one of the earliest written forms of Latin prose. |
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| The first missionaries and translators of Buddhists scriptures into Chinese were either Parthian, Kushan, Sogdian, or Kuchean. |
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| However, many of the elements of the political and social system were incorporated from Hindu scriptures and were conducted by Brahmin priests. |
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| The earliest tenets of Zoroastrian schools are part of the extant scriptures of the Zoroastrian religion in Avestan. |
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| The ancient Greeks were familiar with the Hebrew scriptures and language, and often borrowed words and terms. |
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| An extensive and colorful physical description of the Buddha has been laid down in scriptures. |
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| Stephanie Florey, Richard Garzarelli, Priti Nernani, and Molly Slavin read scriptures and literature during the ceremony. |
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| Nonetheless, I have no doubt that biblical literalists will struggle with the author's use of scriptures. |
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| Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has urged the 'Hindu Cowboys' to record an album of Bhajans based on ancient Hindu scriptures. |
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| According to Bhaiyyaji Joshi, who sits pretty at the No 2 slot in the RSS hierarchy, shudras were never untouchables in Hindu scriptures. |
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| Among the lengthier entries are those on Old Testament scriptures, extra-New Testamental sources, and the issue of authenticity. |
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| This mythic theme has resurfaced from the earliest Judaic scriptures to contemporary urban legends. |
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| In 1606 the Guru was burnt alive on a hotplate by Mughal Emperor Jahangir in an attempt to have him change religious scriptures. |
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| He weaves Old and New Testament contexts together in the Book of Acts as he applies the scriptures to the 21st century, comparing for example, Ananias and Sapphira with Achan. |
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| More peculiarly, among those bodhisattvas who do appear in these earliest scriptures, Avalokitesvara seldom receives much in the way of attention. |
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| According to Buddhist scriptures, he then finally entered Parinirvana. |
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| A Lutheran must understand the language that scriptures are presented in, and should not be so preoccupied by error so as to prevent understanding. |
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| Bradlaugh noted theologians of his time stated that modern scientific research contradicted sacred scriptures therefore the scriptures must be wrong. |
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| The liturgist may read announcements, scriptures, and calls to worship, while the minister preaches the sermon, offers prayers, and blesses sacraments. |
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| Academically speaking, the ancient Vedic scriptures, upon which Hinduism is derived, describe four authorized disciplic lines of teaching coming down over thousands of years. |
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| That is a title the Orthodox Church reserves for Christ, as supported in the scriptures themselves, most explicitly in the first chapter of the gospel of John. |
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| It is not he that refused to subscribe, but he that constrains subscription to some manism, or humanism, or opinion, or tradition not taught in the scriptures. |
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| The Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that the Mahayana Buddhist tradition holds are original teachings of the Buddha. |
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| In Tantric tradition, the Agamas refer to authoritative scriptures or the teachings of Shiva to Shakti, while Nigamas refers to the Vedas and the teachings of Shakti to Shiva. |
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| Hindu scriptures teach that the future is both a function of current human effort derived from free will and past human actions that set the circumstances. |
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| The backlash of fundamentalists in the 20th century, with their uncompromising insistence on biblical inerrancy, failed to halt the marginalization of the scriptures. |
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