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 vi
... nature and essence of the Vedic mythology , to estimate and represent it in a more philosophical spirit , to investigate the age of the different hymns , and to determine how far it may be possible to trace in them a development of the ...
... nature and essence of the Vedic mythology , to estimate and represent it in a more philosophical spirit , to investigate the age of the different hymns , and to determine how far it may be possible to trace in them a development of the ...
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... nature . ( 8 ) Aditi as a forgiver of sin . ( 9 ) Aditi's position is sometimes a subordinate one . 48. ( 10 ) Creation as described in Rig - veda , x . 72 ; birth of Aditi , Daksha , the gods , and the Adityas . 54 57. SECTION IV . THE ...
... nature . ( 8 ) Aditi as a forgiver of sin . ( 9 ) Aditi's position is sometimes a subordinate one . 48. ( 10 ) Creation as described in Rig - veda , x . 72 ; birth of Aditi , Daksha , the gods , and the Adityas . 54 57. SECTION IV . THE ...
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... natural course of events , and from the action of various causes , undergo a gradual modification analogous to that undergone by the common language which had originally been spoken by all these tribes during the period of their union ...
... natural course of events , and from the action of various causes , undergo a gradual modification analogous to that undergone by the common language which had originally been spoken by all these tribes during the period of their union ...
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... nature , as well as of human life and action ; or they may arise in part from a later process of imagination or reflection which conducts to the same result , and from a love of systematic com- pleteness which impels a people to fill up ...
... nature , as well as of human life and action ; or they may arise in part from a later process of imagination or reflection which conducts to the same result , and from a love of systematic com- pleteness which impels a people to fill up ...
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... natural workings of the human mind , in the period of its infancy , upon matters of religion than we can find in any other ... nature might have suggested the notion of the world having gradually arisen out of nothing , or out of a pre ...
... natural workings of the human mind , in the period of its infancy , upon matters of religion than we can find in any other ... nature might have suggested the notion of the world having gradually arisen out of nothing , or out of a pre ...
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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.