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 28
... living creatures . This is remarked by Lucretius , " De Rerum Natura , " in these lines , v . 793 ff .: " Nam neque de cĉlo cecidisse animalia possunt , Nec terrestria de salsis exisse lacunis : Linquitur ut merito maternum nomen adepta ...
... living creatures . This is remarked by Lucretius , " De Rerum Natura , " in these lines , v . 793 ff .: " Nam neque de cĉlo cecidisse animalia possunt , Nec terrestria de salsis exisse lacunis : Linquitur ut merito maternum nomen adepta ...
Page 101
... living things , the chief of beings . . . . . 6. Let us praise this Indra who produced these ( worlds ) : all beings are inferior ( or subsequent ) to him ..... 9. The Asuras are without weapons and are no gods : sweep them away with ...
... living things , the chief of beings . . . . . 6. Let us praise this Indra who produced these ( worlds ) : all beings are inferior ( or subsequent ) to him ..... 9. The Asuras are without weapons and are no gods : sweep them away with ...
Page 141
... living creatures . " 223 Parjanya is also celebrated in two other hymns of the Rig - veda , viz . , vii . 101 , 102. The latter consists of only three verses , and the former is less spirited and poetical than that which I have ...
... living creatures . " 223 Parjanya is also celebrated in two other hymns of the Rig - veda , viz . , vii . 101 , 102. The latter consists of only three verses , and the former is less spirited and poetical than that which I have ...
Page 142
... living creatures . But it is by no means clear whether he is ori- ginally a god of the rain , or a god of the thunder . " He inclines how- ever to think that from the etymology of his name , and the analogy between him and Perkunas , he ...
... living creatures . But it is by no means clear whether he is ori- ginally a god of the rain , or a god of the thunder . " He inclines how- ever to think that from the etymology of his name , and the analogy between him and Perkunas , he ...
Page 161
... living things surveys . 8. 9. Seven lucid mares thy chariot bear , Self - yoked , athwart the fields of air , Bright Surya , god with flaming hair . 10. That glow above the darkness we Beholding , upward soar to thee , For there among ...
... living things surveys . 8. 9. Seven lucid mares thy chariot bear , Self - yoked , athwart the fields of air , Bright Surya , god with flaming hair . 10. That glow above the darkness we Beholding , upward soar to thee , For there among ...
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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.