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Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

1927

And this is clearly due to the feelinthat when the soul faces the decisive moment the moment when the course of his next existence is to be settled he is in very essence what he is at the moment of death. [...] And at times this is even carried to the point of connecting the nature of the death-gate and so of the pathway on the other side of it with apparent accidents of time and place that seem at first sight to have nothing to do with the condition of the soul itself ^ v e n this extreme form of the theory is as we shall see not without parallels in western religions. [...] And it may probably be assumed that the maker of the wish persisted in it earnestly up to the moment of death in order to obtain its fulfilment as in the case of the Southern Buddhist abhiriihara and the Jain nidana.—I have not found in the Divyavadana the Saddharmapundarlka or the Lalitavistara a single instance of a pranidhana made for a definitely immoral object such as sensuous pleasure o [...] ( Apparently by this theory if one could only forget his sins completely at the moment of death he would be safe.) Yet the doctrine that an outsider can change the dying consciousness and so the state of rebirth by inducing one kind of thoughts to take the place of another is a tribute to the strength of the popular notion of the all-decisive importance cf the death-hour. [...] In general the aim is of course first to bring the dying man to contrition and confession of his sins preparatory to absolution and the general indulgence which accompanies the Apostolic benediction" the power to grant which is delegated by the Pope to the bishops and by them to their clergy generally.
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Authors

Dr. R.N. Dandekar

Pages
131
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii D.R Bhandarkar, C.R Devadar view
The Hour of Death
219-249 Franklin Edgarton view
Persian Prosody
250-292 M.T Patwardhax view
The Main Outlines of the History of Dasakuta
293-304 Hucharao Benceri view
Introduction to the French Translation of the Bhagavadgita
305-321 M.E Senart view
The Late Mahamahopadhyaya Ganapati Sastri
322-325 V.R.R Dikshitar view
Reviews and Book-Notices
326-330 V.G Paranjpe view
“A Work on Artha-Sastra (?)” by Madhusudana Sarasvati
331-334 S.N Tadpatrikar view
Historical Position of Namadeva I
335-341 Panduranga Spiarma view
Abhinavagupta on Sakara
342-346 H.R Dibekar view

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