Definitions
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- proper noun An ethnic group of
Liberia andSierra Leone . - proper noun The
Niger-Congo language of the Vai people ofLiberia andSierra Leone .
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The five-CD boxset will be sold exclusively at the Guitar Center chain, with liner notes, transcripts, TABs, lead sheets and scores available soon at www. vai.com/nakedtracks, where Vai will also provide information regarding the key, scale, time signature and more of each track as well as guitar solo transcripts and TABs.
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-- In any case it is evident that the term Vai/s/vânara does not denote the highest Lord.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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Hence he only can be meant by the term Vai/s/vânara.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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The term, viz. the term Vai/s/vânara, cannot be applied to the highest Lord, because the settled use of language assigns to it a different sense.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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-- Moreover, the result which Scripture declares to abide in all worlds -- viz. in the passage, 'He eats food in all worlds, in all beings, in all Selfs' -- is possible only if we take the term Vai/s/vânara to denote the highest Self.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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-- The word Vai/s/vânara denotes the highest Self, on account of the distinction qualifying the two general terms.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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Perhaps it will be urged against the preceding explanations, that, as the word Vai/s/vânara is used in co-ordination with the term 'Self,' and as the term 'Self' alone is used in the introductory passage ( 'What is our Self, what is Brahman?'),
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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But Kanneh, who's from Liberia, speaks a rare dialect known as Vai and the court could not find a translator in time.
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Well, it was a claimed they could not find an interpreter who spoke a certain dialect, Vai, that is popular in his country of Liberia.
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Because a court clerk was unable to find an interpreter fluent in the rare language known as Vai who could stay through the entire trial.
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