Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions: Contributions to a knowledge of the cosmogony, mythology, religious ideas, life and manners, of the Indians in the Vedic ageTrübner, 1870 |
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Page xi
... YAMA AND THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE . 284. ( 1 ) References to immortality in the earlier books of the Rig- veda . 286. ( 2 ) References to the Fathers ( the souls of departed ancestors ) in the earlier books of the Rig - veda . 287 ...
... YAMA AND THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE . 284. ( 1 ) References to immortality in the earlier books of the Rig- veda . 286. ( 2 ) References to the Fathers ( the souls of departed ancestors ) in the earlier books of the Rig - veda . 287 ...
Page xii
... Yama and a future life , -a metrical sketch . 329. ( 8 ) Nachikétas , an ancient theosophic story , metrically rendered from the Taittiriya Brāhmaṇa and the Katha Upanishad . 336 . SECTION XIX . MINOR DIVINITIES : TRITA ĀPTYA , AHIR ...
... Yama and a future life , -a metrical sketch . 329. ( 8 ) Nachikétas , an ancient theosophic story , metrically rendered from the Taittiriya Brāhmaṇa and the Katha Upanishad . 336 . SECTION XIX . MINOR DIVINITIES : TRITA ĀPTYA , AHIR ...
Page 65
... Yama reigning in blessedness shall be beheld in the next world by the righteous ( x . 14 , 7 : 128 ubhā rājānā svadhayā madantā Yamam paśyāsi Varunam cha devam ) . 127 Agni , however , is also prayed to loose his worshipper's bonds R.V. ...
... Yama reigning in blessedness shall be beheld in the next world by the righteous ( x . 14 , 7 : 128 ubhā rājānā svadhayā madantā Yamam paśyāsi Varunam cha devam ) . 127 Agni , however , is also prayed to loose his worshipper's bonds R.V. ...
Page 217
... Yama . 240 Some further verses of this hymn will be quoted in the section on Yama . In verse 9 , the kravyād Agni , the consumer of carrion , or of the dead , is spoken of as an object to be repelled . In the Vāj . S. i . 17 , Agni is ...
... Yama . 240 Some further verses of this hymn will be quoted in the section on Yama . In verse 9 , the kravyād Agni , the consumer of carrion , or of the dead , is spoken of as an object to be repelled . In the Vāj . S. i . 17 , Agni is ...
Page 219
... Yama , Mataris van . " Compare A.V. xiii . 3 , 13 : sa Varunaḥ sāyam Agnir bhavati sa Mitro bhavati prātar udyan | sa Savitā bhūtvā antarikshena yāti sa Indro bhūtvā tapati madhyato divam " Agni becomes Varuna in the evening ; rising in ...
... Yama , Mataris van . " Compare A.V. xiii . 3 , 13 : sa Varunaḥ sāyam Agnir bhavati sa Mitro bhavati prātar udyan | sa Savitā bhūtvā antarikshena yāti sa Indro bhūtvā tapati madhyato divam " Agni becomes Varuna in the evening ; rising in ...
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abhi adhi Aditi Adityas Agne Agni Agnim Agnir aham Aryaman asmai Asuras Asvins asya atha Atharva-veda ayam Brahma Brāhmaṇa Brahmanaspati Brihaspati chariot chid cloth Compare A.V. creatures Daksha deities devāḥ devān devānām divaḥ divine Edited epithet father goddess gods heaven and earth horses hymn idam immortality Indian Indra Indro invoked Kāma king lokam Maruts mātā Mitra and Varuna mother naḥ nāma Nirukta oblation Parjanya passage Prajapati Prāna Professor Müller Professor Roth Purusha Pushan quoted rājā referred regarded Rig-veda rishi sacrifice Sanskrit Sarasvati sarvam Savitā Savitri Sayana Skambha Soma somam soul Surya sūryam Taitt tapas tasmād tasya texts thee thou translation tvā tvam Tvashtri Ushas Vāj vām Varuna vayam veda Vedic verse viii Vishnu viśvā viśvam viśve Vivasvat word worshippers yaḥ Yama yasya yathā yatra καὶ
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Page 62 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 37 - Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky.