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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Vishnu Purana, I.6.10-13; Wilson (1840), Book I, ch. VI, pp. 44-45; Conway (1874), no. LVII, Attainment, pp. 36-37.

Conway's English of the Vishnu Purana, reworded. Conway: 'Men attain the joy of heaven in their human form: they attain beatitude. These are absorbed with the desire for good conduct; they are free from all impediments; they are pure. When the intellect is pure as well as the heart, to it the region of the Deity becomes visible.' Tolstoy makes 'in their human form' «в телесной жизни» (in bodily life); turns the description into a reason, «Такие люди чисты, потому что поглощены только желанием доброй жизни» (such people are pure because they are absorbed only in the desire for a good life), adding 'only' and dropping 'free from all impediments'; and makes 'the region of the Deity becomes visible' «им открывается божество» (the deity is revealed to them). In the Sanskrit (I.6.10-13) men attain heaven and final liberation (svarga and apavarga, Conway's 'beatitude') from the human state, and the pure beings are the first people of the four castes, as Brahma created them; with Hari dwelling in their pure minds they have the pure knowledge by which the abode of Vishnu is seen. Wilson: 'they were pure, made free from soil, by observance of sacred institutes. In their sanctified minds Hari dwelt; and they were filled with perfect wisdom, by which they contemplated the glory of Vishnu.' Conway drops that setting, and the passage becomes a statement about all men. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Vishnu Purana, I.19.41; Wilson (1840), Book I, ch. XIX; Conway (1874), no. CCXLVI, Liberation, p. 162.

Conway's English, which is Wilson's, changed in its second half. Conway: 'That is active duty which is not for our bondage; that is knowledge which is for our liberation: all other duty is good only unto weariness; all other knowledge is only the cleverness of an artist.' Tolstoy keeps the first half, «Только та есть действительная обязанность, которая не имеет целью наше рабство. Только то есть знание, которое содействует нашей свободе», and changes the second: 'good only unto weariness' becomes «только новое ярмо» (only a new yoke), and 'only the cleverness of an artist' becomes «только праздная выдумка» (only an idle invention). The Sanskrit: 'that is action which is not for bondage, that is knowledge which is for liberation; other action is for toil, other knowledge mere skill in a craft.' Prahlada says it to his father, the Asura king, in Wilson's Book I, ch. XIX. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Vishnu Purana, Book III, ch. 7, vv. 23-25 (Yama's instruction to his servant); Conway (1874), no. CLXXVIII, Adoration, pp. 112-113, margin 'Hindu. Vishnu Purána. (Wilson MS.)'.

Conway's section 'Adoration', the first three of its four paragraphs, closely, with one image changed. Conway: 'He who adores the highest (Vishnu), pride vanishes from his heart as fire becomes invisible under the shining of the full moon. He whose heart is pure and good, who is without pride, is mild, persevering, simple and plain, who considers every creature as his friend, and who loves every soul as his own, who behaves uniformly to every one with kindness and love, who wishes to do good, and has abandoned vanity, — in his heart resides the Lord of Life. As the earth is adorned by the beautiful plants it puts forth, so is he beautified in whose heart dwells the Lord of Life.' Tolstoy turns the full moon into the sun: «так же как свет костра при свете солнца» (as the light of a bonfire in the light of the sun); 'the highest' is «Высшего» (the Highest), without the gloss (Vishnu); 'the Lord of Life', Conway's name for Vishnu, is «владыка жизни». He leaves out Conway's last paragraph ('Hold that person sacred whose heart knows no more than two things — that he himself and all others consist in the Deity'). Conway's margin gives 'Wilson MS.', manuscripts of H. H. Wilson's that his list of authorities names; his English is freer than Wilson's published translation (1840) of the same chapter, Book III, ch. 7, where Yama tells his servant how to know a worshipper of Vishnu. The Sanskrit (vv. 23-25) says that Vishnu, spotless as crystal, cannot dwell in hearts with envy, for the fire's burning heat is not found in the cool moon's rays (v. 23); that Vasudeva always dwells in the heart of one who is pure-minded, free of envy, calm, of pure conduct, a friend to all beings, of kind and beneficial speech, without pride or deceit (v. 24); and that such a man is gentle to the world, as the young sal tree by its beauty tells of the earth's sap within it (v. 25). Conway's 'pride vanishes … as fire becomes invisible under the full moon' rearranges v. 23, and his earth adorned with plants reverses the sal tree that shows the earth's sap. The same day's Moha Mudgara (8-29.3) also comes from Conway, with his 'Lord of Life'.