Mahabharata reference

[B. Hatcher]

Jim Fitzgerald seems to have provided an excellent answer to the original 
query.  It does appear that van Buitenen missed something.  'Compassion' 
doesn't belong in the list, rather its opposite.  Not having a Sanskrit 
edition of the MBh, I checked Kaliprasanna Sinha's massive Bengali 
translation done with the assistance of numerous pandits.  His list reads:

kaama, krodha, lobha, moha, vidhitsaa [atrpti], *nirdayataa*, asuuyaa, 
maana, shoka, sprhaa, iirs.aa, jugupsaa.
					[Udyogaparvan 42; vol. 1,  p. 733]

Brian Hatcher
Illinois Wesleyan University
		


On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, John Grimes wrote:

> On page 288 of book 5 (5(52)43.7-10 of Van Buitenen's Mahabharata, he lits
> the 12 vices as: anger, desire, greed, delusion, possessiveness,
> compassion, discontentment, pride, grief, lust, jealousy, and abhorence.
> Would anyone be able to tell me whether "compassion" is really one of the
> twelve and if so, what is the sanskrit word it is a translation of? I do
> not have a copy here of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit and thus my request.
> 
> I would greatly any information I may receive on this. Thank you.
> John
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> John Grimes, Dept of Philosophy, NUS
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