The lamp · Atlas

A lamp, named as the faint object a dazzled eye can no longer perceive, completing the contrast between sense, which is disabled by strength, and soul, which is strengthened by great things.

Likewise it befalls the senses that they cannot apprehend the weak after the strong, as with one who looks a long while at the disc of the sun and is thereafter unable to apprehend a lamp set before him

ch. 3 ¶ · printed page 13

Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhiRenaissance · Arabic

The light-image for the soul faculties, and the lamp to be put out once the morning of unveiling has broken.

Indeed, that meaning may be reflected back into the mirror of its imagination, which is the niche of the lamps of the soul, so that it witnesses those very forms face to face, along with its witnessing of the sensible forms;

ch. 2 ¶ · printed page 29

So put out the lamp, for the morning has broken.

ch. 2 ¶ · printed page 33

The Law of Torts19th Century · English

A lamp that fell from its bracket on a house due to decay, giving rise to the occupier's liability despite employment of a contractor.

In a later case the occupier of a house from which a lamp projected over the street was held liable for damage done by its fall, though he had employed a competent person (not his servant) to put the lamp in repair:

ch. 50 ¶

VīramitrodayaAncient · Sanskrit

Ritual lamps offered on the night of Dīpāvalī (dark Caturdaśī of Kārtika).

And on this same night, the offering of lamps should be performed.

chapter 1 ¶

> Then at the time of evening, one should give beautiful lamps.

chapter 1 ¶