Truth

"I will tell you the truth [ alêtheia], my son," answered Eurykleia.

Now, therefore, though it has pained me to do so, I have told you the whole truth [ alêtheia].

To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaios, "My son, I will tell you the real truth [ alêthês].

"There is no one on earth dearer to me than Rāma — I speak this truth, and by truth itself I swear it to you.

"I would not speak even a falsehood of that kind.

That hero, true to his pledges, at the word of his aged father, went forth with his wife and his brother into the forest.

she whose heart, in the highest sky, is wrapped in truth, the immortal essence of Earth — may that Earth place brilliance and strength in my realm for me.

O Waters, carry away all that — the blame and the impurity — whatever evil dream we have experienced, whatever falsehood we have uttered in a verse.

Truth, the vast, cosmic order fierce, consecration, austerity, sacred knowledge, and sacrifice — these uphold the Earth.

for seriousness is among the foundations of the truth, which prompts to soundness, while jest belongs to the frolic of falsehood, which invites to corruption.

Know, O vizier, that you are in direct charge of administering a kingship that has a foundation — which is the revealed religion — and an order — which is the truth that is to be followed.

I give my soul rest with something of the frivolous, that it may be the stronger for the truth.

We say, then, plainly in bare speech, that philosophy has its quest concerning truth and the nature of the things that are (and this is the truth concerning which the Lord himself said, "I am the truth");

Indeed, the joining of doctrines through their comparison woos the truth, by which knowledge has followed — philosophy having entered not as the primary cause, but our taking, through the fruit that comes from knowledge, a firm conviction of true apprehension by the science of things that are inferred.

As the man eager for the hunt finds his quarry by seeking, searching, tracking, and coursing with hounds, so the truth, when sought and won by toil, appears full of sweetness.

and as some honest hard-working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true [ alêthês], for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Zeus gave the greater glory to Hektor son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.

Moreover, she is named Truth, and is the first cause of all that is true.

The spirit of truthfulness, reluctance to admit falsehood in any form, the hatred of it and the love of truth.

The leader of the choir for him, if you recollect, was truth.

Bring forth your laud, eager for the prize, to Indra the true — if truth there be;

Sing forth to the most bounteous one, the upholder of truth, the great, the bright-flaming — you who stand in praise before Agni.

But since, when our truth meets every charge, the authority of the laws is at last set up against it — so that either it is said that nothing can be reconsidered once the laws have spoken, or the necessity of obedience is, however reluctantly, preferred to truth — I will first join issue with you about the laws, as with the guardians of the laws.

Will its power glory the more in this, that it condemns truth even after hearing it?

Truth makes no appeal on its own behalf, for it does not wonder at its own condition.

Truth was content to make a pact with custom, so that, silently, under the name of custom, it might enjoy itself even in part.

But our Lord Christ named Himself truth, not custom.

The three worlds—earth, atmosphere, and heaven—are also established in truth.

The king shines by truth;

Men who desire purification are purified by truth alone.

Knowing these faults in untruth, and knowing the virtues in truth, speak the truth, deliver yourself, do not cause yourself to fall.

They say that truth is the one and only purifier of the soul, the staircase to heaven, like a boat for the ocean.

The night on which you were born and the night on which you will die—the time between them will be in vain for you, if you act otherwise than with truth.

There is no *dharma* (*dharma* is read as *dhama* in the Romanized edition and *dharmma* in the Balinese edition) greater than truth.

[Slo_07s-ab] nāsti satyāt paro dharmo nānṛtāt pātakaṁ paraṁ | [Slo_07s-cd] triloke ca hi dharma[ḥ] syāt tasmāt satyaṁ na lopayet || 7 ||

Furthermore, a person who has one hundred sons is surpassed by truth.

> There is no *dharma* higher than truth, no sin greater than falsehood.

> Practice *dharma*, speak the truth.

But by untruth where it would cause the death of a member of any of the *varṇas*.

For purification from that sin, a twice-born man shall offer clarified butter into the fire with the Kūśmāṇḍī hymns.

Having summoned the witnesses at sunrise, the king shall question them after they have taken an oath.

[VS_appendix-04j§9] Now, as for *satya*, the *viku* must be true in speech.

* (unidentified)—these are not to be eaten by one of the *Siddhānta* school.

[VS_29j§6] *Satyaṁ*, you must be true: