![]() śobhaná (“excellent, auspicious, virtuous”) and the neuter noun śobhanám (“something auspicious, virtue”) resemble púṇya and púṇyam with their meaning and function, but are post-Vedic in this respect and therefore will not be treated here. They especially refer to meritorious actions or their resulting merits. There are five Sanskrit equivalents for virtue or merit: guṇá, dhárma, sukṛtám, púṇyam and śobhanám, 2 but only sukṛtám and púṇyam are regularly found in the Vedic ritualistic and philosophical texts. 1 Here the meaning of a few terms used to denote virtues and merits will be discussed and an attempt will be made to get some information on their actual contents and background. Now I will treat their positive counterparts (the virtues and merits), which do not have such clear enumerations (and partial parallels outside the Veda). ch. 22) I have discussed the lists of cardinal sins and vices, their specifications in the Veda and their parallels in the Western and Christian tradition. In an other publication (Bodewitz 2007a this vol. ![]()
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