Nārada

Having taken to heart the entire meaning declared by the sages Hārīta, Gobhila, Parāśara, Nārada, and others, the jewel among scholars, Mitra Miśra, at the behest of the glorious King Vīrasiṃha, composes the *Samayaprakāśa* (The Illumination of Time).

And Pañcamī should be performed when conjoined with Ṣaṣṭhī, O Nārada!

> Where there is a complete Ekādaśī which extends with an increase into Dvādaśī, the fast should be done on Dvādaśī, and the *pāraṇa* on Trayodaśī.

Duly honored by him, the divine seer Nārada, taking leave and receiving permission, departed through the sky.

The ascetic Vālmīki questioned Nārada — the foremost among those devoted to austerity and sacred study, the best of the eloquent, the bull among sages.

Having heard that speech of Nārada, the great sage, righteous-souled and skilled in speech, honored him together with his disciples.

looking upon fire he sinks down — he who covets the rightful wealth of a brāhmaṇa, O Nārada.

The vaśā cows that the gods set apart upon arising from the sacrifice — among them Nārada singled out the fearsome viliptyā cow.

Homage be to you, O Nārada — instruct us concerning the vaśā for the knowing one.

If the sample of this branch of Hindu literature first translated into a Western language had been Narada, it would have been regarded as a law-book of a familiar type, and the traces of sacerdotal influence which are to be found in it would probably have been neglected.

A still later treatise, Narada, is almost wholly a simple law-book, and one of a very interesting kind.

66), but Narada, a still more recent authority, almost pervaded by the modern spirit, takes it as a matter of course.

Therefore, one should conduct the course of a legal proceeding by the visible path.

Dharma, legal procedure, custom, and royal edict—this legal procedure has four feet;

Māṇḍavya, though not a thief, acquired the character of one through legal procedure.

There are the cattle, O gambler, there is your wife — this the noble Savitṛ shows me as the right path.

they strike again and again, smeared with honey, they destroy the gambler.

It pained him to see the woman — the wives of others and the well-found source — the gambler;