The Story of Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-VedaG. P. Putnam's sons, 1895 - 457 pages |
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... comes home to us with something of a shock when we are told that the population of India ( the western peninsula alone ) amounted in 1872 , on the showing of the census taken that year , to over 250,000,000 ( not including Burma ) , or ...
... comes home to us with something of a shock when we are told that the population of India ( the western peninsula alone ) amounted in 1872 , on the showing of the census taken that year , to over 250,000,000 ( not including Burma ) , or ...
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... come down at some time , so that some of their descendant tribes were wont , even till very lately , to bury their dead with the feet turned northwards , ready for the journey to the old home , where they were to find their final rest ...
... come down at some time , so that some of their descendant tribes were wont , even till very lately , to bury their dead with the feet turned northwards , ready for the journey to the old home , where they were to find their final rest ...
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... come age after age , and still come , on long pilgrimages , fre- quently stretching into years of self - exile in rude forest - hermitages , to drink deep of solitude and meditation , and return , heart - healed and renovated , to the ...
... come age after age , and still come , on long pilgrimages , fre- quently stretching into years of self - exile in rude forest - hermitages , to drink deep of solitude and meditation , and return , heart - healed and renovated , to the ...
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... come up at all , with the uniform result― famine and frightful mortality - not to speak of such seasons when the southwestern monsoon itself , for some unknown reason , totally fails at the appointed time , or comes along feeble and ...
... come up at all , with the uniform result― famine and frightful mortality - not to speak of such seasons when the southwestern monsoon itself , for some unknown reason , totally fails at the appointed time , or comes along feeble and ...
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... comes the breaking up of the soil thus summarily reclaimed , for which purpose almost any implement seems good enough . It is only a few tribes that know the use of a rough sort of antedilu- vian plough . Most of them content themselves ...
... comes the breaking up of the soil thus summarily reclaimed , for which purpose almost any implement seems good enough . It is only a few tribes that know the use of a rough sort of antedilu- vian plough . Most of them content themselves ...
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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.