[INDOLOGY] Query

[Madhav Deshpande]

I am posting the verse again, with some missing diacritics:

*prayatnād yatamānas tu*
*yogī saṃśuddha-kilbiśaḥ*
*aneka-janma-samsiddhas*
*tato yāti parām gatim*

*Bhagavadgītā 6.45*

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> Probably, he may have recited a verse like Bhagavadgītā 6-45:
>
> *prayatnād yatamanas tu*
> *yogi saṃśuddha-kilbiśaḥ*
> *aneka-janma-samsiddhas*
> *tato yāti parām gatim*
>
> *Madhav Deshpande*
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All:
>>
>> An anthropologist friend of mine recalls a Sanskrit verse or proverb told
>> him by a Kashmiri Brahmin regarding the significance of rebirth. I could
>> not place it, and wonder whether there is anything in the literature that
>> strikes a bell.
>>
>> "A village Brahmin was holding forth to me on the virtues of rebirth,
>> saying it takes a long, long time in this Kali Yuga to complete the good
>> works that one can and should do. For good effect, he rounded off in
>> Sanskrit, which I did not take down carefully, explaining in Kashmiri: "We
>> shall have to take birth time and again, and again". Now, what must he have
>> said?"
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Patrick
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> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
> Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
> 202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111
> The University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA
>
>
>
> --
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
> Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
> 202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111
> The University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA
>



-- 
Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA


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