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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

BOOK XXVI
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76.
In the Ramayana, in like manner, king Dasaratha is compared to the ancient king, Menu.

The word Manu, as the name of the ancestor of men, is derived from the Sanscrit root Man, to know (WILSONin voce); in the same manner as the Sanscrit Manisha, knowledge, Manushya, Man--as also the Latin Mens, and the German Mensch.

According to this etymology, Man, Mensch, properly means "the knowing," the Being endowed with knowledge.

The German word, Meinen, to mean, or be of opinion, belongs to the same stock.] [Footnote 7: p.3.l.9._So there dwelt in high Vidarbha_.

This city is called by our poet Vidarbha Nagara, the city of Vidarbha, and Cundina.


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