It could not inculcate piety; for in true Buddhism piety was impossible; yet like Manu (II.
In Brahmanism there are twenty-one hells (Manu IV.
S]ata-varsha) seem to have been rather common in India in ancient times, if we may judge by the allusions to them in Manu and other works.
Even Manuonly enjoined celibacy on young religious students and on old men, though there were occasional cases of perpetual (naish[t.
Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu was being taken in the rear this time.
The rest of the story was told the author lately by Tutange Waionui, of Patea, he who had distinguished himself in the repulse of the white troops at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu the previous year.
At Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu all did not behave well, but at Moturoa any one might have been proud of the men.
They had come to Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu with a gift of gunpowder to Titokowaru.
These two men were cousins of Hakopa, the old warrior who befriended Kimble Bent in Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu pa in 1868, and later on the Waitara.
One of the songs which we chanted as we wildly danced was this: "'Whakarongo ai au Ki te koroki manu Whakaorooro ana i te ngahere.
The subject is treated with equal learning and bigotry by the Jesuit Gretser, (Syntagma de Imaginibus non Manu factis, ad calcem Codini de Officiis, p.
This shows that the Vellalas have been recognised as a respectable body of mercantile men in charge of weights and measures (Manu 30, chap.
The title Bhargava signifies a descendant of Bhrigu, one of the famous eponymous Rishis or Brahmanical saints, to whom Manu confided his institutes, calling him his son.
The fish announces himself as the God Brahman, and enables Manu to create both gods and men.
The fish grew, and at last had to be carried to the sea, where it revealed to Manu the time of the flood, and bade him construct a ship for his deliverance.
When the time came, Manu, unaccompanied, went on board; the grateful fish towed the ship through the water to the summit of the northern mountain, where it badeManu bind the vessel to a tree.
Nor is it unimportant thatManu is the son of the sun-god, and that the phrase "the seven rishis" in classical Sanskrit is a designation of the seven stars of the Great Bear.
Gradually, as the waters fell, Manu descended the mountain; he then sacrificed and prayed.
Yet it is a separate butte of great proportions, and is named Manu Temple, after the great law-giver of the Hindoos.
Across the river, which here can be seen in five different places, are the temples to the right or east of Bright Angel Gorge, while Buddha and Manu on the left (west) are equally in evidence.
The Sixth Book of the Laws of Manurelates to devotion.
In the time of Manu the Aryans are still living in the valley of the Ganges.
Other nations, it is true, had codes of law, like the Institutes of Manu in India, or the jurisprudence of Solon and the enactments of Lycurgus.
The original land of the race is called Aryavesta in the Laws of Manu (II.
Manu proceeds to expound, in great detail, this law of transmigration.
He preserves the fish, which grows to a great size, and when the flood comes acts as a tow-boat to drag the ship of Manu to a mountain.
But as Siva is mentioned in the oldest Buddhist writings, it follows that the laws of Manu are older than these.
The name ofManu seems afterward to have been given by the Brahmans to the author of their code.
Manu also attributes to ancient Brahmans a maxim almost verbally the same as that of the Bible, namely, "The husband is even one person with his wife.
It is stated by Manu that no one has a right to drink this sacred juice who does not properly provide for his own household.
The Manu of the Vedas and he of the Brahmans are very different persons.
Nothing is said by Manu concerning the cremation of widows, but, on the other hand, minute directions are given for the behavior of widows during their life.
The Licchavis are referred to in Manu as one of the "base-born" castes for that very reason--in spite of the fact that they possessed great power and prestige and very wide influence.
No law-giver like Manuhas appeared for twenty-four centuries.
The one phrase which expresses the whole spirit of the laws of Manu is intense conservatism.
Principal Fairbairn finds Vedic authority for the idea that the creation of the world was accomplished by the self-sacrifice of deity; and Manu ascribes the creation of mankind to the austerities of the gods.
The influence of Manu over the jurisprudence of India was a matter of growth.
It is always the truth that is mingled with the errors of any system which constitutes its life and gives it perpetuity, and there is much in the Code of Manu to be admired.
No indication is given of the author's own experience, and we are left in doubt whether there were not many authors to whom the general name of Manu was applied.
Manu taught the duty of kings toward their subjects in most emphatic terms.
Footnote 49: Sir Monier Williams assigns the Code of Manu in its present form to the sixth century B.
The laws of Manu make no mention of the doctrine of Bakti or faith, and there is no reference to the worship of the Sakti; both of these were of later date.
Abuses which had crept in through the natural development of human depravity--for example, the oppression of woman--the laws of Manu stamped with inflexible and irreversible authority.
At Melancthon, cum nimis lubricus esset et Protei in morem se in omnia transformaret, me compulit, ut sumpto calamo manu armarem.
Adam-Kadmon of the Kabbala and the Gnostics, who is connected both with Agni-Manu and Jesus).
Manu among the Indians, Minos among the Greeks, Men (Min) among the Egyptians).
This idea, that mankind needed to be renewed by another typical representative of itself, goes back in the last resort to India, where, after the dismemberment of Purusha, a man arose in the person of Manu or Manus.
In this section of the laws of Manu an ideal of moral perfection is set forth, which is not demanded at the earlier stages of life.
The law of Manu hinges on the superiority of the Brahman over the other castes.
The Father loveth the Son: omnia dedit inmanu eius.
That which my Father hath mihi, maius omnibus est: et given me is greater than all: nemo potest rapere de manu and no one can snatch them Patris mei.
And I give them life eis: et non peribunt in everlasting; and they shall aeternum, et non rapiet eas not perish for ever, and no quisquam de manu mea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
