The RamayanaРамаяна
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
3. Добродетель есть служение, которое обязан совершать человек самому себе. Если бы не было ни неба, ни бога, управляющего миром, добродетель была бы все-таки обязательным законом жизни. Знать, что справедливо, и исполнять это, в этом и обязанность и преимущество человека.
3. Virtue is a service that man is bound to render to himself. If there were neither heaven nor a God who governs the world, virtue would still be the binding law of life. To know what is just and to do it: in this lies both the obligation and the privilege of man.
From The Iliad of the East: A Selection of Legends Drawn from Valmiki's Sanskrit Poem, the Ra… · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“It is man’s privilege to know the Right and follow it” becomes “To know what is just and to do it: in this lies both the obligation and the privilege of man”: Tolstoy adds the duty to Richardson’s privilege.
What Tolstoy read · The Sacred AnthologyVirtue is a service man owes himself ; and though there were no heaven, nor any God to rule the world, it were not less the binding law of life.
It is man's privilege to know the right and follow it.
Source text: archive.orgThe Ramayana’s own wordsVirtue is a service man owes himself, and though there were no Heaven, nor any God to rule the world, it were not less the binding law of life.
It is man's privilege to know the Right and follow it.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Iliad of the East: A Selection of Legends Drawn from Valmiki's Sanskrit Poem, the Ramayana (1870), ch. IX, The Death of Jatayu, p. 149; Conway (1874), pp. 340–341, no. DLVI, Virtue, margin 'Hindu. Ramayana. "The Iliad of the East." (Richardson.)'.
Rama's words after Sita is carried off, in Richardson's retelling of the Ramayana, as Conway prints them (no. DLVI, 'Virtue'). Tolstoy takes the first two sentences of the speech close: 'Virtue is a service man owes himself; and though there were no heaven, nor any God to rule the world, it were not less the binding law of life.' In the third he adds a word: 'It is man's privilege to know the right and follow it' becomes «Знать, что справедливо, и исполнять это, в этом и обязанность и преимущество человека» (to know what is just and do it, in this is both the duty and the privilege of man): «обязанность» (duty) is his. Richardson's book is 'a selection of legends drawn from' Valmiki and retells freely; no verse of Valmiki answering this speech was identified, and the words are hers. She wrote in English, but Tolstoy added to them, so the site prints his version (ruling 1). Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).