The Story of Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-VedaG. P. Putnam's sons, 1895 - 457 pages |
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Page 128
... beautiful Vedic worship quickly and surely de- generated , one misplaced accent , one mis - pronounced word , one falsely given quantity , was supposed not only to destroy the beneficial virtue of a sacrifice , but actually to turn it ...
... beautiful Vedic worship quickly and surely de- generated , one misplaced accent , one mis - pronounced word , one falsely given quantity , was supposed not only to destroy the beneficial virtue of a sacrifice , but actually to turn it ...
Page 141
... beautiful , picturesque bit of imagery , but it would not crystallize in our minds into a person and a name ( even setting apart the impossibility of such a thing on religious grounds ) ; that is a faculty specially belonging to those ...
... beautiful , picturesque bit of imagery , but it would not crystallize in our minds into a person and a name ( even setting apart the impossibility of such a thing on religious grounds ) ; that is a faculty specially belonging to those ...
Page 152
... beautiful passage , supposed to be spoken by a living man musing on his own coming death . " Who will give me back to the great Aditi , that I may see again father and mother ? Agni [ fire ] , the first of immortal gods , he will give ...
... beautiful passage , supposed to be spoken by a living man musing on his own coming death . " Who will give me back to the great Aditi , that I may see again father and mother ? Agni [ fire ] , the first of immortal gods , he will give ...
Page 154
... beautiful language or more convincing argument than Professor Max Müller . " Aditi , " he says , " is now and then invoked in the Veda as the Beyond - as what is beyond the earth , and the sky , and the sun , and the dawn . " This gives ...
... beautiful language or more convincing argument than Professor Max Müller . " Aditi , " he says , " is now and then invoked in the Veda as the Beyond - as what is beyond the earth , and the sky , and the sun , and the dawn . " This gives ...
Page 157
... beautiful , fleet , ruddy steeds that can assume all shapes , he bellows like a bull and invades the forests ; the birds are terrified at the noise when his grass - devouring sparks fly round , and his wheels mark his path with ...
... beautiful , fleet , ruddy steeds that can assume all shapes , he bellows like a bull and invades the forests ; the birds are terrified at the noise when his grass - devouring sparks fly round , and his wheels mark his path with ...
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Aditi Âdityas Agni amrita ancient Angiras Aryan Âryas Ashvins Asura Avesta beautiful born Brahmanic called caste celestial Chaldea chariot clouds course cows darkness Dasyu Dawn deity descended Devas divine drama Dravidian drink Dyâus earth Eranian father fire forest gods golden Greek heaven heavenly Himâlaya Hindu horses human hymns immortal India Indo-Eranian Indra Indus king land language later light living Manu Maruts Max Müller means modern moon mortal mother mountain myth mythical native nature night original Parjanya passages Penjâb plants poet poetical prayer priestly priests primeval probably Purânas race religion Rig-Veda Rishis river root sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saramâ Savitar scholars Serpent Shûdra Soma spirit Story of Chaldea Story of Media Sûrya texts thee things thou tion tree tribes Tritsu Tvashtar Ushas Váruna Vasishtha Veda Vedic verse Vishnu Vivasvat Vritra waters word worship Yama
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Page 338 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 86 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed? Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Sakoontala! and all at once is said.
Page 341 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 178 - Where life is free, in the third heaven of heavens, where the worlds are radiant, there make me immortal...
Page 172 - We have drunk the Soma ; we have become immortal : we have entered into light; we have known the gods. What can an enemy now do to us, or what can the malice of any mortal effect...
Page 338 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Page 414 - Second hymn : 1. \\7ise and mighty are the works of him who stemmed asunder the wide firmaments. He lifted on high the bright and glorious heaven ; he stretched out apart the starry sky and the earth.