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: is an incorrectly formed word. The correct word should be  which, of course, would involve the metrical mistake in-as-much as the fifth syllable in the

metre should be short. The phrase  has not been split up into two names, but as in the ´the word  has been used in the sense of ‘the second  of the soul’, the author might have used the word as an independent name of  Then the meaning of the name would be ‘Full of Consciousness’ i.e. ‘Consisting of Consciousness’.

*10 The word ordinarily means ‘dependent’, but here  means  either ‘The regular order of ceremonies and rites’ or ‘Authority’ or ‘Ruling’ or ‘Happiness’. Dattatreya, being one with Supreme Reality, is beyond all this. The word means ‘Rites’, ‘System’, ‘Framework’ and ‘Ritual’ also.

*11  A king; A master. Therefore,  the Master of the body. The word  means ‘the sphere of action; the body (regarded as the field of the working of the soul).’

*12  means ‘A Teacher’ also. Hence, the word may be translated as ‘A Preceptor’, ‘A Teacher’ also.

(To be contd.)

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All of us know that the recitation of the Ishta Devata’s name, praying, doing Arati and paying tribute to the Ishta Devata, in correct and clear words, on fully understanding the meaning of the words, gives the desired results.

I hope that the devotees who read these books and adopt the right code of conduct will be immensely benefitted, as Madhavrao Deshpande and Nanasaheb Chandorkar were.          

                                                                          – Abstract from the ‘Foreword to the Second Revised Edition’.