The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha
author: Swami Venkatesananda
edition: 2013, New Age Books
pages: 777
ISBN-13: 9788178222608
Topic: Hinduism
Chapter 9 - The Story of the Vampire
This page describes The Story of the Vampire which is Chapter 9 on pages 430-431 in the book: The Supreme Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda. This is a modern English translation of the Yogavasishtha (तारा, yoga-vasishtha) in two volumes, entitled ‘the supreme yoga’. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) [by Somadeva]
In Bernhard Schmidt’s Griechische Märchen, p. 139, there is an interesting story of a vampire who begins by swallowing fowls, goats and sheep, and threatens to swallow men, but his career is promptly arrested by a man born on a Saturday. A great number of vampire stories will be found in the notes to Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer, Book VIII, p. 10. See also his poem of Roprecht the Robber, Part III. For the lamps or candles fed with human oil see Vol....
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The Skanda Purana [by G. V. Tagare]
A man who does not perform the Shraddha unto his father and mother (every year) on the day of death becomes a vampire immediately and falls into hell later. Shri Suta said: 33-34. Merely by taking his holy bath in this Tirtha, Duracara, the great sinner, attained the world of Vishnu from which no one returned (to Samsara). Thus the holy story of the liberation of Duracara has been recounted to you all. Hence this Tirtha is the most sacred (of all Tirthas)....
Read full contents: Chapter 25 - The Greatness of Jabalitirtha
Puranic encyclopaedia [by Vettam Mani]
Story of Vagbhata. A Sanskrit scholar who lived in the 12th century A.D. He is the author of the two medical books Ashtanga-sangraha and Ashtangahridaya . Another work called Neminirvana is also written by Vagbhata. This work deals with the story of Neminatha, a Jain hermit.Not much is known about Vagbhata. He was a scholar in rhetorical science. There are certain stories about his writing the medical books. It was a period when the muslims had beaten down the Brahmins....
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[The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha: index]
[Preface]
[Foreword]
[Introduction]