Prabodha Chandrodaya (Rise of the Moon of Intellect)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- J. Taylor
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Extent:
- ~28,400 words · 135 passages
Cite this work
- APAKrishna Mishra. (n.d.). Prabodha Chandrodaya (Rise of the Moon of Intellect) (J. Taylor, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/krishna-mishra/prabodha-chandrodaya-rise-of-the-moon-of-intellect
- MLAKrishna Mishra. Prabodha Chandrodaya (Rise of the Moon of Intellect). Translated by J. Taylor. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/krishna-mishra/prabodha-chandrodaya-rise-of-the-moon-of-intellect.
- ChicagoKrishna Mishra. Prabodha Chandrodaya (Rise of the Moon of Intellect). Translated by J. Taylor. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/krishna-mishra/prabodha-chandrodaya-rise-of-the-moon-of-intellect.
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What it is about
The Rise of the Moon of Intellect: an allegorical drama in six acts in which abstract ideas are the characters.
Context and history
Written around 1065 at the Chandella court, it stages a war between Discrimination and Great Delusion for the soul: Passion, Anger and Greed fight on one side, Faith, Peace and Knowledge on the other, and the rival schools of thought appear as the defeated. Vedanta wins and the moon of intellect rises. It is one of the best-known philosophical dramas in Sanskrit. English translation by J. Taylor, M.D. (Bombay, 1812) from the Sanskrit and Prakrit, in the 1872 reprint; in the public domain. It is two centuries old and it shows. The original is Sanskrit and citation should follow the original, but of this work only the translation is here.
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It signifies, revealing what had beo hid.—I should have preferred another term in the translation, had I known ope which would have expressed the meaning with distinotness and curacy, 12 PRABODHA CHANDRODAYA; OR, [Act I. taken into their service. Enjoyment. Why do those people? rejoice at the birth of Science, who is their own destroyer ? Love: Do wicked men, who endeavour to annihilate the world, makeany reckoning of crimes ?—Observe these tainted natures ; these crooked dispositions become the cause of destruction to those whogave them birth, and then perish themselves. Thus whilst smoke rises to the clouds, the fire is extinguished, and afterwards the smoke itself disappears. [ Behind the Scenes. | Sinful and depraved soul, dost thou presume to ¢all us evil doers? Thou complainest of our enmity; but knowest thou not that thelearned in the Purans command us to shun even a teacher who is self-sufficient, who does not distinguish right from wrong, and who walks in the road of pride. Under the influence of self-sufficiency our father (Mind) Passion, and others, have bound in chains the supreme Lord, and forcibly carried him away.” Love. (Addressing Enjoyment.) Here is Reason in company with Understanding,3 the goddess who was born in our family.—This ignoble, despised person, whose wealth consists in respect, and whose body is meagre, shines in the light borrowed from Understanding, who is herself obscured by Affection and others who follow the impulse of their own desires, as the light of the moon is hid by thick vapour. It is not fit that we remain longer in this place. [ruason, the king, and UNDERSTANDING enter. ] Reason. (Musing.) Did you hear the proud swelling “Quiet, Mortification, & === ~=~~SO*~C<“~‘“‘<s SSCS 2The meaning of this is given in the Appendix, 3 Mati, Act 1.] RISE OF THE MOON OF INTELLECT. 18 words of that low, impious person, pronouncing us evil doer ?…