The Sacred Books of the East Described and Examined: Hindu series, Volume 1Christian Literature Society of India, 1898 |
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addressed Aditi Adityas Agni Aitareya Brahmana ancient animals Aryans Asuras Asvins Atharva Atharva-Veda became blessings Book born called cattle ceremony charms Christianity created creatures death deities described desire Devas divine drink earth evil father fire give given goddess gods hath heaven Hence Hindu Hinduism horse human hymns immortal India Indra king libation living Lord mantras Manu Maruts Max Müller means metres mighty milk Mitra moon Nirriti oblation offering origin penance performed plants Post-free praise Prajapati prayer priests Puranas Purusha Purushamedha Pushan quoted regarded religion Rig-Veda Rishis rites Rudra sacred sacrifice sacrificed Sama Veda Sanhita Sanskrit Satapatha Brahmana says Soma soul story supposed Surya Tait Taitt Taittiriya thee thou art translated Upanishads Vach Varuna Vayu Veda Vedic verily verses vigour Vishnu Visvedevas Vritra wealth wife words worship Yajur Veda Yama
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Page 181 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 138 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last - far off - at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 67 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Page 128 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 181 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 138 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
Page 180 - If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 2 - And how many hours a day did you do lessons ? " said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. " Ten hours the first day," said the Mock Turtle: "nine the next, and so on." "What a curious plan! " exclaimed Alice. "That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.
Page 106 - Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 180 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.