10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURPORTLESS»
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purportless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Vedânta-Sûtras: Part II
It then follows that for him who has obtained perfect knowledge, injunctions
andprohibitions are purportless.No, we reply, (they arenot purportless forhim, but
theydonot refer to him), sincetohim who hasobtained thehighest aim no
obligation ...
... action (according to thePûrva Mîmâmsâ Sûtra I,2,1, 'As the purportof Scripture
is action,those scriptural passages whose purport isnot actionare purportless'),
the Vedânta passages whosepurport is not action are purportless.Or else if
theyare ...
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A Source Book in Indian Philosophy
difference effected by its connexion with bodies and other limiting adjuncts, the
products of ignorance—It then follows that for him who has obtained perfect
knowledge, injunctions and prohibitions are purportless—No, we reply, (they are
not ...
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. Moore, 2014
4
A Short Introduction to Vedanta
... is not action are purportless, meaning thereby that the Upanishads which
purport to give information about an existing entity like Brahman are either
purportless, or are subordinate to those texts of the Veda which deal with
sacrificial action.
They were fired on by the peasants, and burnt some houses in consequence ;
and on the fourth night of this purportless and hopeless enterprise, Bligh —
having learnt that regiments had arrived from different parts, even from Brest, and
that ...
We cannot reconcile it with the evidence of design in all the works of God, that the
sixteen hundred years previous to the deluge should have been blotted out, and
the existence of man for this period have thus been rendered purportless.
We cannot reconcile it with the evidence of design in all the works of God, that the
sixteen hundred years previous to the deluge should have been blotted out, and
the existence of man for this period have thus been rendered purportless.
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The Christian Examiner and General Review
We cannot reconcile it with the evidence of design in all the works of God, that the
sixteen hundred years previous to the deluge should have been blotted out, and
the existence of man for this period have thus been rendered purportless.
Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, 1841
9
The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo:
The winds which have in viewless heaven their birth, The waves which in their
fury meet the clouds, The central storms which shake the solid earth, And from
volcanoes burst in fiery floods, Are not more vague and purportless and blind,
Than ...
10
Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo
The OED also states that that which is purportless is without sense or meaning,
and Jangamuttuk's mastery is a performative position that attempts to produce
meaning from the chaos of invasion. As a performative position, it produces
mastery ...
