Truth - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.23.1508	Thou art knowledge, thou art the illusion to which we are all subject; thou art the all-pervading spirit; thou art the lord of the gods; thou art the great Truth; thou art fearless; thou art ever unchanged; thou art Brahma without attributes; thou art the energy of the Sun; thou art the intellectual functions; thou art our great protector; thou art the ocean of holiness; thou art purity; thou art bereft of the attributes of darkness; thou art the possessor of the six high attributes; thou art he who cannot be withstood in contest.
Mbh.1.74.4057	Truth is more meritorious than a hundred sons.
Mbh.1.74.4058	A hundred horse-sacrifices had once been weighed against Truth, and Truth was found heavier than a hundred horse-sacrifices.
Mbh.1.74.4059	O king, Truth, I ween, may be equal to the study of, the entire Vedas and ablutions in all holy places.
Mbh.1.74.4060	There is no virtue equal to Truth: there is nothing superior to Truth.
Mbh.1.74.4061	O king, Truth is God himself; Truth is the highest vow.
Mbh.1.74.4063	Let Truth and thee be even united.
Mbh.1.93.5130	It is for this that the wise adore Truth.
Mbh.1.93.5131	O Ashtaka, all I have told thee, Pratardana, and Vasumat, is Truth itself.
Mbh.1.93.5132	I know it for certain that the gods and the Rishis and all the mansions of the blessed are adorable only because of Truth that characteriseth them all.
Mbh.1.105.5897	In our race, thou art Virtue, and thou art Truth, and thou art, too, our sole refuge.
Mbh.1.196.9720	Truth becometh monarchs better than sacrifices and dedications of tanks.
Mbh.1.214.10517	Truth is my weapon'
Mbh.2.21.953	Truth decks even kings.
Mbh.3.12.649	And, O best of male beings, the Rishis indicate thee as Forgiveness and Truth!
Mbh.3.12.650	Kasyapa hath said that thou art Sacrifice sprung from Truth!
Mbh.3.29.1364	Truth is more beneficial than untruth; and gentleness than cruel behaviour.
Mbh.3.180.8927	Truth is sometimes more praiseworthy than some acts of charity; some of the latter again are more commendable than true speech.
Mbh.3.180.8975	Truth, charity, self-restraint, penance, abstention from doing injury to any creature, and constancy in virtue, these, O king, and not his race of family connections, are the means, by which a man must always secure salvation.
Mbh.3.189.9527	And men with false reputation of learning will, by their acts, cause Truth to be contracted and concealed.
Mbh.3.189.9561	And men with false reputation of learning will contract Truth and the old will betray the senselessness of the young, and the young will betray the dotage of the old.
Mbh.3.199.10267	The Vedas are the Supreme Soul; they are His body; they are the Truth.
Mbh.3.206.10663	Hearing these words, the fowler replied, saying, O best of Brahmanas, Sacrifices, Gift, Asceticism, the Vedas, and Truth, these five holy things are ever present in conduct that is called virtuous.
Mbh.3.206.10668	Waiting upon superiors, Truth, Freedom from anger, and Gift, these four, O Brahmana, are inseparably connected with behaviour that is virtuous.
Mbh.3.206.10670	The essence of the Vedas is Truth: the essence of Truth is self-control, and the essence of self-control is abstention from the pleasures of the world.
Mbh.3.230.11721	Thou art the progenitor of Truth, the destroyer of Diti's progeny Asuras, and the great conqueror of the enemies of the celestials.
Mbh.3.257.12606	Truth, sincerity, freedom from anger, justice, self-control, restraint of the faculties, immunity from malice, guilelessness, sanctity, and mortification of the senses, these, O mighty monarch, purify a person of meritorious acts.
Mbh.4.6.244	And be thou as boon-giving Truth unto us that are acting according to Truth.
Mbh.4.15.624	And she said, As I do not know another person save my husbands, by virtue of that Truth let Kichaka not be able to overpower me although I may approach his presence'
Mbh.4.16.639	And at this, Draupadi exclaimed, As I have never, from intoxication of the senses, been unfaithful to my husbands even at heart, by that Truth, O wretch, I shall behold thee dragged and lying powerless on the ground'
Mbh.4.22.962	I swear unto thee by Truth, by my brothers, and by morality, that I will slay Kichaka even as the lord of the celestials slew Vritra.
Mbh.5.35.1772	Truth, beauty, acquaintance with the scriptures, knowledge, high birth, good behaviour, strength, wealth, bravery, and capacity for varied talk, these ten are of heavenly origin.
Mbh.5.43.2411	They have deviated from Truth Brahman and entertain purposes corresponding with their state and hence relying on the truth of Vedic texts thereof perform sacrifices.
Mbh.5.43.2413	The person, however, who seeketh Brahman through Truth, obtaineth his desired objects at home.
Mbh.5.43.2416	As regards those that have knowledge of Self, with them Truth is the highest object of pursuit'
Mbh.5.43.2420	He, on the other hand, should be known by thee to be possessed of the knowledge of the Brahman who doth not deviate from Truth.
Mbh.5.43.2428	He, however, that is established in Truth, know the Object knowable by the Vedas.
Mbh.5.43.2432	He, on the other hand, that knoweth only what is Not-self, doth not know Truth.
Mbh.5.43.2446	He that stayeth in Truth and knoweth Brahman is said to be a Brahmana, and a Brahmana, possesseth universal knowledge.
Mbh.5.45.2530	In consequence of his ability to grasp that Truth Brahman from which sacrifices flow, the Yogin is capable of performing sacrifices by the mind.
Mbh.5.45.2532	Truth Brahman resides in him who knoweth Brahman as vested with attributes.
Mbh.5.45.2539	O king, one cannot, by Work, however well-accomplished, attain to Truth Brahman.
Mbh.5.70.3522	He possesseth a knowledge of all things, and, therefore, is called Sarva, Krishna is always in Truth and Truth is always in him, and Govinda is Truth's Truth.
Mbh.5.90.4273	In our race, thou art Virtue's self, thou art Truth, and thou art the embodiment of ascetic austerities.
Mbh.5.164.7449	I swear in the name of Truth, slaying Dussasana in battle, I shall quaff his life-blood!
Mbh.6.65.3601	Ascetic austerities and Truth born of morality and religious rites, constitute thy strength.
Mbh.6.66.3639	The divine Artificer hath sung of him as the Supreme Energy, the Supreme Felicity, and the Supreme Truth.
Mbh.7.4.131	SECTION IV Sanjaya said, Unto him who was talking thus, the aged Kuru grandsire with a cheerful heart, said these words adapted to both time and place: Like the ocean unto rivers, like the Sun unto all luminous bodies, like the righteous unto Truth, like a fertile soil unto seeds, like the clouds unto all creatures, be thou the refuge of thy relatives and friends!
Mbh.7.59.2703	Brahmanas, vested in knowledge of Truth, devoted to the performance of sacrifices, blessed with children and children's children and numbering myriads upon myriads, were present at his hundreds of sacrifices.
Mbh.7.74.3232	O Krishna, I swear by Truth, I touch my weapons and swear by them, that I shall, O Kesava, at the very outset, encounter that Drona, that mighty bowman, who hath become the protector of that sinful wretch Jayadratha!
Mbh.7.184.10077	Putting forth thy prowess, pay the debt thou owest to Truth, Prosperity, Virtue, and Fame!
Mbh.8.69.4014	Truth may be unutterable, and even falsehood may be utterable where falsehood would become truth and truth would become falsehood.
Mbh.8.69.4044	Asked in the name of Truth, answer us.
Mbh.8.71.4245	Thus addressed, Vijaya, replied, O bull of Bharata's race, saying, I swear by Truth, O king, and by thy grace, by Bhima, O best of men, and by the twins, O lord of the earth, that today I shall slay Karna, in battle, or, being myself slain by him fall down on the earth.
Mbh.8.73.4425	I swear by Truth to thee, O friend, that my limbs are burning at the thought that while the son of Subhadra was thus advancing, consuming the hostile army with his shafts, even on that occasion the wicked-souled Karna was engaged in acts of hostility to that hero, O lord!
Mbh.8.91.5852	Let this shaft, worshipped by me and possessed of great sharpness, slay my enemy Karna by that Truth
Mbh.9.63.4590	Listen to these words of mine that I utter, swearing by Truth itself, O lord, and by all my acts of piety, all my gifts, my religion, and the religious merits I have won.
Mbh.10.13.886	Indeed, that enemy of snakes perched on the standard-top of Keshava who is Truth embodied.
Mbh.11.4.205	Learning all this, he that adhereth to Truth, O king, succeedeth in passing over all paths
Mbh.12.29.1502	Let my heart ever take pleasure in Truth, through thy grace, O cater of sacrificial libations'
Mbh.12.43.2174	Thou art the foremost of all things, thou art fierce, thou art the generalissimo in battle, thou art the Truth, thou art the giver of food, and thou art Guha the celestial generalissimo; Thyself unfading, thou causest thy foes to fade and waste.
Mbh.12.47.2344	Thou art Truth.
Mbh.12.47.2397	Thou buildest the bridge for the good to cross the sea of life with Truth, with those means by which emancipation may be obtained, and with the means by which the senses may be controlled.
Mbh.12.47.2398	Salutations to thee in thy form of Truth!
Mbh.12.55.2940	There is nothing which contributes so much to the success of kings as Truth.
Mbh.12.55.2941	The king who is devoted to Truth finds happiness both here and hereafter.
Mbh.12.55.2942	As regards Rishis also, O king, Truth is their great wealth.
Mbh.12.55.2943	Similarly, as regards kings, there is nothing that so much inspires confidence in them as Truth.
Mbh.12.108.6118	Truth and falsehood exist, covering all the worlds.
Mbh.12.120.6843	It has Truth for its soul and it is productive of prosperity.
Mbh.12.123.7085	Asked by Prahlada as to who he was, that form possessed of great effulgence answered, saying, Know, O chief of the Daityas, that I am Truth.
Mbh.12.123.7087	After Truth had left Prahlada, following in the wake of Righteousness, another great person issued out of Prahlada's body.
Mbh.12.123.7089	Know, O Prahlada, that live there where Truth lives'
Mbh.12.123.7105	Righteousness and Truth and Good deeds and Might and myself, O thou of great wisdom, all have our root verily in Behaviour'
Mbh.12.129.7378	By wealth, both the worlds, viz, this and the other, can be had, as also Truth and religious merit.
Mbh.12.133.7505	If righteousness and Power be associated with Truth, they can then rescue men from great perils.
Mbh.12.134.7547	Truth should never be sacrificed.
Mbh.12.137.7751	I swear by Truth, O friend'
Mbh.12.161.9549	That which is called Truth always exists in a pure and unmingled state in every one of those four orders.
Mbh.12.161.9550	With those that are good, Truth is always a duty.
Mbh.12.161.9551	Indeed, Truth is an eternal duty.
Mbh.12.161.9552	One should reverentially bow unto Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9553	Truth is the highest refuge of all.
Mbh.12.161.9554	Truth is duty; Truth is penance; Truth is Yoga; and Truth is the eternal Brahma.
Mbh.12.161.9555	Truth has been said to be Sacrifice of a high order
Mbh.12.161.9556	Everything rests upon Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9558	It behoveth thee to hear also as to how Truth may be acquired.
Mbh.12.161.9559	Truth, O Bharata, as it exists in all the world, is of thirteen kinds.
Mbh.12.161.9560	The forms that Truth assumes are impartiality, self control, forgiveness, modesty, endurance, goodness, renunciation, contemplation, dignity, fortitude, compassion, and abstention from injury.
Mbh.12.161.9561	These, O great monarch, are the thirteen forms of Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9562	Truth is immutable, eternal, and unchangeable.
Mbh.12.161.9586	These thirteen attributes, though apparently distinct from one another, have but one and the same form, viz, Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9587	All these, O Bharata, support Truth and strengthen it.
Mbh.12.161.9588	It is impossible, O monarch, to exhaust the merits of Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9589	It is for these reasons that the Brahmanas, the Pitris, and the gods, applaud Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9590	There is no duty which is higher than Truth, and no sin more heinous than untruth.
Mbh.12.161.9591	Indeed, Truth is the very foundation of righteousness.
Mbh.12.161.9592	For this reason, one should never destroy Truth.
Mbh.12.161.9593	From Truth proceed gifts, and sacrifice with presents, as well as the threefold Agnihotras, the Vedas, and everything else that leads to righteousness.
Mbh.12.161.9594	Once on a time a thousand horse-sacrifices and Truth were weighed against each other in the balance.
Mbh.12.161.9595	Truth weighed heavier than a thousand horse-sacrifices'
Mbh.12.174.10503	Nothing can resist the messengers Disease and Decrepitude of Death when they advance except Truth which devours Untruth.
Mbh.12.174.10504	In Truth is immortality
Mbh.12.174.10505	For these reasons one should practise the vow of Truth; one should devote oneself to a union with Truth; one should accept Truth for one's Veda; and restraining one's senses, one should vanquish the Destroyer by Truth.
Mbh.12.174.10507	One comes to Death through ignorance and loss of judgment; while Immortality is achieved through Truth.
Mbh.12.174.10508	I shall, therefore, abstain from injury and seek to achieve Truth, and transgressing the sway of desire and wrath, regard pleasure and pain with an equal eye, and attaining tranquillity, avoid Death like an immortal.
Mbh.12.174.10513	There is no penance like that involved in Truth.
Mbh.12.174.10524	Bhishma continued, Do thou also, O monarch, conduct thyself in that way in which the sire in this story, conducts himself, devoted to the religion of Truth, after having listened to the speech of his son'
Mbh.12.187.11245	The puissant Lord then created Truth, Duty, Penance, the eternal Vedas, all kinds of pious acts, and Purity, for enabling creatures to attain to heaven by practising them.
Mbh.12.189.11302	SECTION CXC Bhrigu said, Truth is Brahma; Truth is Penance; it is Truth that creates all creatures.
Mbh.12.189.11303	It is by Truth that the whole universe is upheld; and it is with the aid of Truth that one goes to heaven.
Mbh.12.189.11310	Amongst these, that which is Truth is Righteousness; that which is Righteousness is Light; and that which is Light is Happiness.
Mbh.12.193.11654	The matter is otherwise with one acquainted with the Truth.
Mbh.12.193.11655	The mere knowledge of Truth will bring him happiness.
Mbh.12.193.11659	He that has understood the triple aggregate viz, that it is liable to destruction instead of being eternal, and reflecting upon it, casts it away, succeeds by yoga to behold the Truth and obtain perfect felicity.
Mbh.12.198.11933	The rewards of sacrifices and gifts, as also of fasts and religious observances, are not so efficacious in rescuing a person from evil and hell as Truth, O bull among men, in both this and the next world.
Mbh.12.198.11934	All the penances that have been undergone by thee and all those that thou wilt undergo in the future for hundreds and thousands of years do not possess efficacy greater than that of Truth.
Mbh.12.198.11935	Truth is one un deteriorating Brahma.
Mbh.12.198.11936	Truth is the one undeteriorating Penance.
Mbh.12.198.11937	Truth is the one undeteriorating sacrifice.
Mbh.12.198.11938	Truth is the one undeteriorating Veda.
Mbh.12.198.11939	Truth is awake in the Vedas.
Mbh.12.198.11940	The fruits attached to Truth have been said to be the highest.
Mbh.12.198.11941	From Truth arise Righteousness and Self-restraint.
Mbh.12.198.11942	Everything rests on Truth.
Mbh.12.198.11943	Truth is the Vedas and their branches.
Mbh.12.198.11944	Truth is Knowledge.
Mbh.12.198.11945	Truth is the Ordinance.
Mbh.12.198.11946	Truth is the observance of vows and fasts.
Mbh.12.198.11947	Truth is the Primeval Word Om.
Mbh.12.198.11948	Truth is the origin of creatures.
Mbh.12.198.11949	Truth is their progeny.
Mbh.12.198.11950	It is by Truth that the Wind moves.
Mbh.12.198.11951	It is by Truth that the Sun gives heat.
Mbh.12.198.11952	It is by Truth that Fire burns.
Mbh.12.198.11953	It is on Truth that Heaven rests.
Mbh.12.198.11954	Truth is Sacrifice, Penance, Vedas, the utterance of Samans, Mantras, and Saraswati.
Mbh.12.198.11955	It hath been heard by us that once on a time Truth and all religious observances were placed on a pair of scales.
Mbh.12.198.11956	When both were weighed, that scale on which Truth was, seen to be heavier.
Mbh.12.198.11957	There is Truth where Righteousness is.
Mbh.12.198.11958	Everything increaseth through Truth.
Mbh.12.198.11960	Be firm in Truth.
Mbh.12.198.11975	Let the Brahmana become endued with the reward attaching to gift, and let the monarch also obtain the merit of Truth'
Mbh.12.209.12675	He is Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice, Renunciation, Self-restraint, and Righteousness.
Mbh.12.230.14308	In the Krita age all the duties exists in their entirety, along with Truth.
Mbh.12.249.15306	Truth forms the tirtha by its miry banks.
Mbh.12.250.15352	Truth hath the subjugation of the senses for its recondite object.
Mbh.12.271.16726	I have spoken to thee of that religion of Truth which, indeed, is the religion of those that are utterers of Brahma
Mbh.12.276.16935	When the soldiers that compose Death's army are on their march, nothing can resist them, except that one thing, viz, the power of Truth, for in Truth alone Immortality dwells.
Mbh.12.276.16942	Restraining all one's senses and looking upon all creatures with an equal eye, one should vanquish Death with the aid of Truth.
Mbh.12.276.16944	Death is encountered from folly, and Immortality is won by Truth.
Mbh.12.276.16945	Transcending desire and wrath, and abstaining from injury, I shall adopt Truth and happily achieving what is for my good, avoid Death like an Immortal.
Mbh.12.276.16963	Do thou also act in the same way, devoted to the religion of Truth
Mbh.12.284.17684	Thou art the thunder among weapons, and thou art Truth among vows.
Mbh.12.284.17749	Thou art conversant with Brahma, thou art Penance, thou art Truth, thou art the soul of Brahmacharya, and thou art Simplicity
Mbh.12.299.18700	Truth is the arcanum of the Vedas.
Mbh.12.299.18701	The arcanum of Truth is self-restraint.
Mbh.12.299.18737	I do not know whether anything exists that is more sacred than Truth.
Mbh.12.299.18738	Having roved among both human beings and the deities, I declare it that Truth is the only means for reaching heaven even as a ship is the only means for crossing the ocean.
Mbh.12.301.18901	Truth is its shores.
Mbh.12.301.18918	Abstention from injury, and Truth, are its boundary line.
Mbh.12.318.19961	He cast off all ordinary duties and their derelictions, Virtue and Vice, Truth and Falsehood, Birth and Death, and all other things appertaining to the principles produced by Prakriti.
Mbh.12.321.20369	It behoveth thee, O thou of Kuru's race, to discourse to me on the conclusions in respect of the Unmanifest Cause, the Manifest Effects, and of the Truth or Brahma that is in, but unattached to them, as also of the acts of the self-born Narayana, as they are known to thy understanding.
Mbh.12.329.21025	Truth is the ballast that is to steady that boat.
Mbh.12.335.21483	With their senses and minds under complete control, and ever devoted to Yoga, these eight ascetics, with concentrated souls, are fully conversant with the Past, the Present and the Future, and are devoted to the religion of Truth,
Mbh.12.338.21695	Thou art he who is divested of all attributes, who is the Witness of all the worlds, who is called Kshetrajna, who is the foremost of all Beings, who is Infinite, who is called Purusha, who is the great Purusha, who is the foremost of all Purushas, who is the soul of the three attributes, who is called the Foremost, who is Amrita nectar, who is called Immortal, who is called Ananta Sesha, who is Space who is without beginning, who is both Manifest and Unmanifest as existent and not-existent things, who is said to have his home in Truth who is the first of gods Narayana, who is the giver of wealth or of the fruits of acts, identified with Daksha and other Lords of the Creation, who is the Aswattha and other big trees, who is the four-headed Brahman, who is the Lord of all created Beings, who is the Lord of Speech who is the Lord of the universe or Indra, who is the all-pervading Soul, who is the Sun, who is the breath called Prana, who is the Lord of the waters viz, Varuna, who is identifiable with the Emperor or the King, who is identifiable with the Regents of the several points of the compass, who is the refuge of the universe when it is dissolved in the final destruction who is Undisplayed unrevealed, who is the giver of the Vedas unto Brahman, who is identifiable with the sacrifices and Vedic studies achieved by Brahmanas with the aid of their bodies, who is identifiable with the four principal orders of the deities, who is every one of those four orders, who is possessed of effulgence, who is possessed of great effulgence, who is he unto whom the seven largest offerings in sacrifices are presented with the Gayatri and other sacred mantras, who is Yama, who is Chitragupta and the other attendants of Yama, who is called the wife of Yama, who is that order of the deities called Tushita, who is that other order called Mahatushita, who is the universal grinder Death, who is desire and all diseases that have been created for aiding the advent of Death, who is health and freedom from disease, who is subject to desire and passions, who is free from the influence of desire and passions, who is Infinite as exhibited in species and forms, who is he that is chastised, who is he that is the chastiser, who is all the lesser sacrifices like Agnihotra and others, who is all the larger sacrifices like those called Brahma, etc,
Mbh.12.340.22163	The blessed and holy one said, Ye foremost of celestials, ye should, in that age, repair to such places where the Vedas and sacrifices and Penances and Truth and Self-restraint, accompanied by duties fraught with compassion for all creatures, will still continue to flourish.
Mbh.12.342.22388	There is no duty higher than Truth.
Mbh.12.342.22499	Thou art Truth.
Mbh.12.342.22596	I am the highest abode of all creatures and am regarded by persons conversant with the scriptures to be identical with Truth or Nectar.
Mbh.12.342.22597	I am, for this reason, called by learned Brahmanas by the name of Ritadhama abode of Truth or Nectar.
Mbh.12.342.22614	The Rishis dwelling in Pushkara, which is regarded as the abode of Brahman, called me by the name of Truth.
Mbh.12.347.23149	Truth has Narayana for its refuge.
Mbh.12.349.23375	Thus looked after by me, the Earth, which is the embodiment of Truth, will succeed in bearing her load of creatures.
Mbh.12.350.23453	It is well known to be identical with Rita and Truth.
Mbh.12.352.23564	Bhishma said, The duties ordained in respect of every mode of life are capable, if well performed, of leading to heaven and the high fruit of Truth.
Mbh.12.353.23630	Some have ascended to heaven by practising the duty of compassion, and some by practising Truth.
Mbh.13.2.161	He performed sacrifices, and was self-restrained and intelligent, devoted to Brahmanas and Truth.
Mbh.13.14.1512	Innumerable masters of Yoga, all the regenerate Rishis with their children, all the celestial Rishis, the goddess Earth, the Sky between Earth and Heaven, the Constellations, the Planets, the Months, the Fortnights, the Seasons, Night, the Years, the Kshanas, the Muhurtas, the Nimeshas, the Yugas one after another, all the celestial Sciences and branches of knowledge, and all beings conversant with Truth, were seen bowing down unto that Supreme Preceptor, that great Father, that giver or origin of Yoga.
Mbh.13.14.1527	The righteous say that thou art Penance, thou art Sattwa, thou art Rajas, thou art Tamas, and thou art Truth.
Mbh.13.14.1547	They that are devoted to meditation, that are always engaged in Yoga, that are devoted to or firm in Truth and that have subjugated their passions, seek thee and rest on thee
Mbh.13.16.1591	Thou art the supreme Truth.
Mbh.13.16.1610	Thou art Earth, thou art Wind, thou art Water, thou art Agni, thou art Space, thou art Speech, thou art the Understanding, thou art Steadiness, thou art Intelligence, thou art the acts that creatures do, thou art Truth, thou art Falsehood, thou art existent and thou art non-existent.
Mbh.13.16.1640	Thou art that region of Truth which is sought by the righteous and regarded by them as the highest.
Mbh.13.16.1665	Those regenerate persons, again, that are conversant with the Atharvans, hymn thee as Rita, as Truth, as the Highest, and as Brahma.
Mbh.13.17.1732	All of them are fraught with the element of Truth.
Mbh.13.17.2536	Thou art he who has become displayed as Truth in consequence of the cessation of all other faculties.
Mbh.13.17.2655	Thou art that region of Truth to which they that are foremost in righteousness attain.
Mbh.13.17.2656	Thou art superior to even that region of Truth which is attainable by the righteous.
Mbh.13.18.2849	And since, O ascetic, this body of thine hath sprung from the fourth foot of Dharma viz, Truth.
Mbh.13.18.2881	Vishnu said, O Great King, Aditya, Chandra, Wind, Fire, Heaven, Earth, the Vasus, the Viswedevas, Dhatri, Aryyaman, Sukra, Vrihaspati, the Rudras, the Saddhyas, Varuna, Brahma, Sakra, Maruts, the Upanishads that deal with knowledge of Brahman, Truth, the Vedas, the Sacrifices, Sacrificial Presents, Brahmanas reciting the Vedas, Soma, Sacrificer, the shares of the deities in sacrificial offerings or clarified butter poured in sacrifices, Raksha, Diksha, all kinds of restraints in the form of vows and fasts and rigid observances, Swaha, Vashat, the Brahmanas, the celestial cow, the foremost acts of righteousness, the wheel of Time, Strength, Fame, Self-restraint, the Steadiness of all persons endued with intelligence, all acts of goodness and the reverse, the seven Rishis, Understanding of the foremost order, all kinds of excellent touch, the success of all religious acts, the diverse tribes of the deities, those beings that drink heat, those that are drinkers of Soma, Clouds, Suyamas, Rishitas, all creatures having Mantras for their bodies, Abhasuras, those beings that live upon scents only, those that live upon vision only, those that restrain their speech, those that restrain their minds, those that are pure, those that are capable of assuming diverse forms through Yoga-puissance, those deities that live on touch as their food, those deities that subsist on vision and those that subsist upon the butter poured in sacrifices, those beings that are competent to create by fiats of their will the objects they require, they that are regarded as the foremost ones among the deities, and all the other deities, O descendant of Ajamila, the Suparnas, the Gandharvas, the Pisachas, the Danavas, Yakshas, the Charanas, the snakes, all that is gross and all that is exceedingly subtile, all that is soft and all that is not subtile, all sorrows and all joys, all sorrows that come after joy and all joy that comes after sorrow, the Sankhya philosophy, Yoga, and that which transcends objects which are regarded as foremost and very superior, all adorable things, all the deities, and all the protectors of the universe who entering into the physical forces sustain and uphold this ancient creation of that illustrious Deity, have sprung from that Creator of all creatures.
Mbh.13.22.3226	Markandeya said, If a thousand Horse-sacrifices and Truth were weighed in the balance, I do not know whether the former would weigh even half as heavy as the latter'
Mbh.13.22.3262	Bhishma said, Those Brahmanas that are freed from wrath, that are devoted to acts of righteousness, that are firm in Truth, and that practise self-restraint are regarded as good.
Mbh.13.75.6888	Holding all the Vedas in memory, or ablutions performed in all the sacred waters, may or may not be equal to telling the Truth every day in one's life.
Mbh.13.75.6889	A thousand horse sacrifices and Truth were once weighed in the balance.
Mbh.13.75.6890	It was seen that Truth weighed heavier than a thousand horse-sacrifices.
Mbh.13.75.6891	It is by Truth that the sun is imparting heat, it is by Truth that fire blazes up, it is by Truth that the winds blow; verily, everything rests upon Truth.
Mbh.13.75.6892	It is Truth that gratifies the deities, the Pitris and the Brahmanas.
Mbh.13.75.6893	Truth has been said to be the highest duty.
Mbh.13.75.6894	Therefore, no one should ever transgress Truth.
Mbh.13.75.6895	The Munis are all devoted to Truth.
Mbh.13.75.6896	Their prowess depends upon Truth.
Mbh.13.75.6897	They also swear by Truth.
Mbh.13.75.6898	Hence, Truth is pre-eminent.
Mbh.13.75.6900	Self-restraint is the attainment of the reward that attaches to Truth.
Mbh.13.75.6906	All of them, while here, were devoted to Truth, and self-restrained and had their vital seed drawn up.
Mbh.13.83.7435	There many beautiful cars, all excellently equipped, which move at the will of the rider, may be seen, O Vasava, O thou of eyes like lotus-petals, it is only by Brahmacharya, by penances, by Truth, by self-restraint, by gifts, by diverse kinds of righteous deeds, by sojourns to sacred waters, in fact, by severe austerities and righteous acts well-performed, that one can attain to Goloka.
Mbh.13.103.9174	SECTION CIII Yudhishthira said, Thou hast discoursed to us on diverse kinds of gift, on tranquillity of soul, on Truth, on compassion, on contentment with one's wedded wife, and the merits of gift.
Mbh.13.108.9874	Adhering to eternal Truth, one should bathe in the Tirtha called Manasa, which is unfathomable for its depth, stainless, and pure, and which has Truth for its waters and the understanding for its lake
Mbh.13.108.9891	Those ablutions which one performs with a blazing mind in the waters of the knowledge of Brahma in the Tirtha called Manasa, are the true ablutions of those that are conversant with Truth.
Mbh.13.115.10350	Truth is an eternal duty.
Mbh.13.121.10648	Truth and Falsehood, would cease.
Mbh.13.127.11075	Purity of heart is regarded as equal to sacrifices and Truth.
Mbh.13.142.11829	These Munis, crowned with ascetic success and ever devoted to the religion of Truth, attain to the highly sacred region of Brahman or the eternal region of Soma.
Mbh.13.144.11997	Those persons that are devoted to the religion of Truth, that are righteous and destitute of the indications of the several modes of life, and that enjoy the wealth earned by righteous means, succeed in ascending to heaven.
Mbh.13.149.12526	Truth whose soul is equable in consequence of His thorough impartiality, He that has been measured by His worshippers, He that is always equal, being above all change or modification, He that never refuses to grant the wishes of His worshippers, He whose eyes are like the petals of the lotus, He whose acts are always characterised by Righteousness or He who is always engaged in granting the wishes of those that are devoted to Him, He that is of the form of Righteousness CIV, CXIII; He that destroys all creatures or their pains, the Many headed, He that upholds the universe, He that is the source of the universe, He who is of pure or spotless fame, the Immortal One He that is Eternal and Fixed, He that is possessed of beautiful limbs, or, He the ascension unto whom is the best of all acts, He who has such knowledge having penance for its indication that He is able to agitable Prakriti for evolving the universe out of her CXIV, CXXII; He that goes everywhere in the sense of pervading all things as their cause, the Omniscient One, He that blazes forth in unmodified effulgence, He whose troops are everywhere in the form of devoted associates, or He at whose very sight the Danava troops are scattered in all directions.
Mbh.13.149.12537	He that has seven flames in consequence of His being identical with the deity of fire; He that has seven horses for bearing His vehicle; or, He that owns the steed called Sapta; He that is formless; He that is sinless: He that is inconceivable; He that dispels all fears; He that destroys all fears DCCCXXVI, DCCCXXXIV; He that is minute; He that is gross; He that is emaciated; He that is adipose; He that is endued with attributes; He that transcends all attributes; He that is unseizable; He that suffers Himself to be easily seized by His worshippers; He that has an excellent face; He that has for His descendants the people of the accidental regions; He that extends the creation consisting of the fivefold primal elements DCCCXXXV, DCCCXLVI; He that bears heavy weights in the form of Ananta; He that has been declared by the Vedas; He that is devoted to Yoga; He that is the lord of all Yogins; He that is the giver of all wishes; He that affords an asylum to those that seek it; He that sets Yogins to practise Yoga anew after their return to life upon the conclusion of their life of felicity in heaven; He that invests Yogins with puissance even after the exhaustion of their merits; He that has goodly leaves in the form of the Schhandas of the Vedas, Himself being the tree of the world; He that causes the winds to blow DCCCXLVII, DCCCLVI; He that is armed with the bow in the form of Rama; He that is conversant with the science of arms; He that is the rod of chastisement; He that is chastiser; He that executes all sentences of chastisement; He that has never been vanquished; He that is competent in all acts; He that sets all persons to their respective duties; He that has none to set Him to any work; He that has no Yama to slay Him DCCLVII, DCCCLXVI; He that is endued with heroism and prowess; He that has the attribute of Sattwa Goodness; He that is identical with Truth; He that is devoted to Truth and Righteousness; He that is sought by those who are resolved to achieve emancipation; or, He towards whom the universe proceeds when the dissolution comes; He that deserves to have all objects which His worshippers present unto Him; He that is worthy of being adored with hymns and flowers and other offering of reverence; He that does good to all; He that enhances the delights of all DCCCLXVII, DCCCLXV; He whose track is through the firmament; He that blazes forth in His own effulgence; He that is endued with great beauty; He that eats the offerings made on the sacrificial fire; He that dwells everywhere and is endued with supreme puissance; He that sucks the moisture of the earth in the form of the Sun; He that has diverse desires; He that brings forth all things; He that is the parent of the universe; He that has the Sun for His eye DCCCLXXVI, DCCCLXXXV; He that is Infinite; He that accepts all sacrificial offerings; He that enjoys Prakriti in the form of Mind; He that is giver of felicity; He that has taken repeated births for the protection of righteousness and the righteous; He that is First-born of all existent things; He that transcends despair in consequence of the fruition of all His wishes; He that forgives the righteous when they trip; He that is the foundation upon which the universe rests; He that is most wonderful DCCCLXXXVI, DCCCXCV; He that is existent from the beginning of Time; He that has been existing from before the birth of the Grandsire and others; He that is of a tawny hue; or, He that discovers or illumines all existent things by His rays; He that assumed the form of the great Boar; He that exists even when all things are dissolved; He that is the giver of all blessings; He that creates blessings; He that is identifiable with all blessings; He that enjoys blessings; He that is able to scatter blessings DCCCXXI, CMV; He that is without wrath; He that lies ensconced in folds in the form of the snake Sesha; or, He that is adorned with ear-rings; He that is armed with the discus; He that is endued with great prowess; He whose sway is regulated by the high precepts of the Srutis and the Smritis; He that is incapable of being described by the aid of speech; He whom the Vedantas have striven to express with the aid of speech; He that is the dew which cools those who are afflicted with the three kinds of grief; He that lives in all bodies, endued with the capacity of dispelling darkness CMVI, CMXIV; He that is divested of wrath; He that is well-skilled in accomplishing all acts by thought, word, and deed; He that can accomplish all acts within the shortest period of time; He that destroys the wicked; He that is the foremost of all forgiving persons; He that is foremost of all persons endued with knowledge; He that transcends all fear; He whose names and feats, heard and recited, lead to Righteousness CMXV, CMXXII, He that rescues the Righteous from the tempestuous ocean of the world; He that destroys the wicked; He that is Righteousness; He that dispels all evil dreams; He that destroys all bad paths for leading His worshippers to the good path of emancipation; He that protects the universe by staying in the attribute of Sattwa; He that walks along the good path; He that is Life; He that exists overspreading the universe CMXXIII, CMXXXI; He that is of infinite forms; He that is endued with infinite prosperity; He that has subdued wrath; He that destroys the fears of the righteous; He that gives just fruits, on every side, to sentient beings according to their thoughts and acts; He that is immeasurable Soul; He that bestows diverse kinds of fruits on deserving persons for their diverse acts; He that sets diverse commands on gods and men; He that attaches to every act its proper fruit CMXXXII, CMXL; He that has no beginning; He that is the receptacle of all causes as well as of the earth; He that has the goddess of Prosperity ever by his side; He that is the foremost of all heroes; He that is adorned with beautiful armlets; He that produces all creatures; He that is the original cause of the birth of all creatures; He that is the terror of all the wicked Asuras; He that is endued with terrible prowess CMXLI, CMXLIX; He that is the receptacle and abode of the five primal elements; He that gulps down His throat all creatures at the time of the universal dissolution; He whose smile is as agreeable as the sight of flowers; or, He who laughs in the form of flowers; He that is always wakeful; He that stays at the head of all creatures; He whose conduct consists of those acts which the Righteous do; He that revives the dead as in the case of Parikshit and others; He that is the initial syllable Om; He that has ordained all righteous acts CML, CMLVIII; He that displays the truth about the Supreme Soul; He that is the abode of the five life-breaths and the senses; He that is the food which supports the life of living creatures; He that causes all living creatures to live with the aid of the life-breath called Prana; He that is the great topic of every system of philosophy; He that is the One Soul in the universe; He that transcends birth, decrepitude, and death CMLIX, CMLXV; He that rescues the universe in consequence of the sacred syllable Bhuh, Bhuvah, Swah, and the others with which Homa offerings are made; He that is the great rescuer; He that is the sire of all; He that is the sire of even the Grandsire Brahman; He that is of the form of Sacrifice; He that is the Lord of all sacrifices being the great deity that is adored in them; He that is the sacrificer; He that has sacrifices for his limbs; He that upholds all sacrifices CMLXXVI, CMLXXXV; He that protects sacrifices; He that has created sacrifices; He that is the foremost of all performers of sacrifices; He that enjoys the rewards of all sacrifices; He that causes the accomplishment of all sacrifices; He that completes all sacrifices by accepting the full libation at the end; He that is identical with such sacrifices as are performed without desire of fruit; He that is the food which sustains all living creatures; He that is also the eater of that food CMLXXVI, CMLXXXIV; He that is Himself the cause of His existence; He that is self-born; He that penetrated through the solid earth and repairing to the nether regions slew Hiranyaksha and others; He that sings the Samans; He that is the delighter of Devaki; He that is the creator of all; He that is the Lord of the earth; He that is the destroyer of the sins of his worshippers CMLXXXV, CMXXCII; He that bears the conch Panchajanya in His hands; He that bears the sword of knowledge and illusion; He that sets the cycle of the Yugas to revolve ceaselessly; He that invests Himself with consciousness and senses; He that is endued with the mace of the most solid understanding.
Mbh.13.150.12689	Representing as it does Truth or Eternal Brahman.
Mbh.13.157.13061	All of them have Truth for their vow, and for these reasons all of them are regarded as equal to great Rishis.
Mbh.13.167.13824	Truth constitutes the highest power.
Mbh.14.35.1404	Brahma said, It is from Truth that all creatures, mobile and immobile, have been born.
Mbh.14.35.1408	For Truth, when united with qualities, becomes always possessed of five indications.
Mbh.14.35.1409	Brahman is Truth.
Mbh.14.35.1412	It is from Truth that all creatures have sprung.
Mbh.14.35.1413	Truth is the universe of being.
Mbh.14.35.1414	It is for this that Brahmanas who are always devoted to Yoga, who have transcended wrath and sorrow, and who always regard Religion as the causeway along which every one must pass for avoiding the morass below, take refuge in Truth.
Mbh.14.90.4103	Truth, pleasure, religious merit, and Heaven as acquirable, by good qualities, of women, as also all the objects of their desire, O foremost of regenerate ones, are dependent on the husband.
Mbh.16.3.108	Then rising up in a rage, Satyaki said, I swear to thee by Truth that I shall soon cause this one to follow in the wake of the five sons of Draupadi, and of Dhrishtadyumna and Shikhandithey that were slain by this sinful wretch, while they were asleep, with the assistance of Dronas son.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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