The Agni PuranaАгни-пурана

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Agni Purana, Conway's last sentence; the Sanskrit uncertain (perhaps ch. 159, v. 13).

The last sentence of Conway's 'Action Determinative' (margin: 'Hindu. Agni Purana. comp.'), the paragraph whose first part is 3-12.4. 'The life of man is the cause of action' becomes «Дела человека — его жизнь» (a man's deeds are his life); 'action passes into the destiny, good or evil' is kept («И дела его становятся его судьбой, хорошей или дурной»); 'that is the principle upon which we exist' becomes «В этом закон нашей жизни»; and in place of 'on it depends the task each must perform' Tolstoy concludes «и потому для человека важнее всего в мире то, что он сейчас делает» (what matters most is what one is doing now). Conway's bibliography lists H. H. Wilson's manuscript Agni Purana among his sources, and 'comp.' marks a passage compiled from more than one place. The rest of the paragraph is ch. 159, vv. 8–10; for this sentence no verse corresponds closely. The nearest in the same chapter is v. 13, given here: the deed done before finds its doer as a calf its mother (Dutt, 1903: 'The good or evil deeds of a man (Karma) are sure to overtake him in his next existence, as a calf finds out its mother from among the herds of cattle'). Ch. 226, v. 1 (स्वमेव कर्म दैवाख्यं विद्धि देहान्तराजितं, saved beside it) says that what is called destiny is one's own deed from a former body.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Agni Purana, ch. 159, vv. 8–10.

Conway's 'Action Determinative' (margin: 'Hindu. Agni Purana. comp.'), first part, close (Conway's bibliography lists H. H. Wilson's manuscript Agni Purana among his sources): the good deed not put off, and death not asking whether the duty was done. For 'Death knows not regard nor antipathy' Tolstoy writes «Смерть никого и ничего не дожидается» (death waits for no one and nothing), then keeps 'it owns neither friend nor foe' («У нее нет ни врагов, ни друзей»). His added sentence is nearer the Sanskrit, न हि प्रतीक्षते मृत्युः, 'death does not wait' (Dutt: 'Death waits for no body'), than Conway's 'death does not consider'.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Agni Purana, ch. 47, v. 3 (the first sentence); Conway (1874), p. 113, no. CLXXIX, Mystical Altar-Flowers.

The first two sentences of Conway's 'Mystical Altar-Flowers', whose margin reads 'Hindu. Agni. Purana. (Wilson MS.) comp.' The first is close: 'That is the best worship which is made without the expectation of the attainment of any particular object; the worst is that which is performed for the accomplishment of a particular end' («Лучшее богопочитание — то, которое делается без надежды на достижение какой-либо цели; худшее такое, которое имеет в виду определенную цель»). In the second Tolstoy keeps 'should behold him in every creature' and leaves out 'and every creature in him'. The first sentence is Agni Purana 47.3, in the chapter on the worship of the Shalagram stone: उत्तमा निष्फला पूजा कनिष्ठा सफलार्चना, 'the best worship is without fruit, the lowest is worship for a fruit' (Dutt, 1903: 'the best form is the disinterested worship, or the worship without any desire or supplication on the part of the devotee'); v. 1 names the three kinds, with desire, without it, and both, and v. 4 makes worship of an image the middle one. Conway leaves out the Shalagram. The second sentence was not found in ch. 47 or in Dutt's first volume (chs. 1–168); Conway's 'comp.' marks a passage compiled from more than one place, and his list of authorities names Wilson's manuscript Agni Purana. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903). March's Agni Purana (3-12.4) also came through Conway.