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Buddhist
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (54)
The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor (that of) sandal-wood, or of Tagara and Mallikâ flowers; but the odour of good people travels even against the wind; a good man pervades every place.
Hindu
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 2 (6)
'And he who desires the world of perfumes and garlands (gandhamâlya), by his mere will perfumes and garlands come to him, and having obtained the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter IX: On the Different Kinds of Cause. (24)
For the rose has not the same kind of sweet fragrance as myrrh.
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XXVII (19)
Whatever root, or gum, or wood is scented, as frankincense, varâst, kust, sandalwood, cardamom, camphor, orange-scented mint, and others of this...
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Hindu
Brahmana 3 (4.3.24)
Verily, while he does not there smel! he is verily smelling, though he does not smell (what is [usually] to be smelled); for there is no cessation of...
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Buddhist
Chapter 11: The Bodhisattva Conduct (10)
Then Ananda, asked the Buddha: “O Blessed One, the perfume which we now inhale has never been inhaled before; what perfume may it be?” The Buddha...
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Hindu
Brahmana 3 (1.3.13)
Likewise it carried Smell across. When that was freed from death, it became wind. This wind, when it has crossed beyond death, purifies.
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XXVII (12)
Everything whose sweet-scented fruit, or sweet-scented blossom, arises in its season, without the hand-labour of men, they call a wild plant (vahâr...
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Buddhist
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (2)
Then Vimalakirti having entered into a Samadhi, manifested to the great assembly a country called Sarvagandhasu-gandha, which is situated in the...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXIV (4)
And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragran...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (47)
This Herb, which I mean here, from whose Fragrance my Spirit takes its Refreshing, every Country Ploughman does not know it, nor every Doctor, the...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXI (14)
Besides these kinds of wood there is none other that thou shalt place (on the altar), for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XXVII (11)
Whatever sweet-scented blossom arises at various seasons through the hand-labour of men, or has a perennial root and blossoms in its season with new...
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Buddhist
Chapter 11: The Bodhisattva Conduct (12)
Ananda asked: ‘ ‘ Whence comes this perfume ? ’ ’ [He] said: “Vimalakirti, the wealthy householder, had received the portion of food from the Buddha...
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Greek
Orphic Hymns (LXXX - The West Wind)
The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE. SEA-born, aerial, blowing from the west, Sweet gales, who give to weary'd labour rest: Vernal and grassy, and of...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (2)
They meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the breath (scent) in the nose , but the Asuras pierced it (the breath) with evil. Therefore we smell by the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (97)
And seeing they are too weak for this strong Spirit, and cannot elevate themselves, they yield or surrender their noble Power, and that smells so love...
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Buddhist
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (19)
Then Vimalakirti asked the Bodhisattvas from Sarvagandhasugandha: “ How does the Tathagata Gandhakuta preach the law?” They replied: “ The Tathagata...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXXI (3)
And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (55)
And there it is to be proved, whether it be a good Smell, or Savour pleasing to its Constitution and Complexion, or no: If it be good, then it brings ...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (23)
There spring up also in these Powers and Virtues, all Manner of Blossoms and Flowers, with fair Heavenly Colours and Smells.
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