The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 eBook

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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,582 pages of information about The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4.
of fame.  Thou art the Deity that distributes unto all creatures the fruits (in the form of joys and griefs) of their acts.  Thou art thyself those fruits which thou distributest.  Thou art the most ancient (having existed from a time when there was no other existent thing).  Thou art competent to cover with a single footstep of thine all the three worlds.  Thou art Vamana (the dwarf) who deceived the Asura chief Vali (and depriving him of his sovereignty restored it unto Indra).  Thou art the Yogin crowned with success (like Sanatkumara and others).  Thou art a great Rishi (like Vasishtha and others).  Thou art one whose objects are always crowned with success (like Rishava or Dattatreya).  Thou art a Sanyasin (like Yajnavalkya and others).  Thou art he that is adorned with the marks of the mendicant order.  Thou art he that is without such marks.[135] Thou art he that transcends the usages of the mendicant order.  Thou art he that assures all creatures from every sort of fear.  Thou art without any passions thyself (so that glory and humiliation are alike to thee).  Thou art he that is called the celestial generalissimo.  Thou art that Visakha who took his rise from the body of the celestial generalissimo when Indra hurled his thunder-bolt at him.  Thou art conversant with the sixty tattwas or heads of enquiry in the universe.  Thou art the Lord of the senses (for these achieve their respective functions guided by thee).  Thou art he that is armed with the thunder-bolt (and that rives the mountains).  Thou art infinite.  Thou art the stupefier of Daitya ranks in the field of battle.  Thou art he that moves his car in circles among his own ranks and that makes similar circles among the ranks of his foes and who conies back safe and sound after devastating then.  Thou art he that is conversant with the lowest depth of the world’s ocean (in consequence of thy knowledge of Brahman).  Thou art he called Madhu (who has founded the race in which Krishna has taken his birth).  Thou hast eyes whose colour resembles that of honey.  Thou art he that has taken birth after Vrihaspati.[136] Thou art he that does the acts which Adhyaryus have to do in sacrifices.  Thou art he who is always adored by persons whatever their modes of life.  Thou art devoted to Brahman.  Thou wanderest amongst the habitations of men in the world (in consequence of thy being a mendicant).  Thou art he that pervadest all beings.  Thou art he that is conversant with truth.  Thou knowest and guidest every heart.  Thou art he that overspreads the whole universe.  Thou art he that collects or stores the good and bad acts of all creatures in order to award them the fruits thereof Thou art he that lives during even the night that follows the universal dissolution.  Thou art the protector wielding the bow called Pinaka.  Thou residest in even the Daityas that are the marks at which shootest thy arrows.  Thou art the author of prosperity.  Thou art the mighty ape Hanuman that aided Vishnu in the incarnation of Rama in his
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