The Story of Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-VedaG. P. Putnam's sons, 1895 - 457 pages |
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... course on the northern side of the watershed , thus bringing to their own side much of the rainfall which should by rights go to the far thirstier plains of Tibet and Bokharia . Nor is it only by storing the moisture in its snowdrifts ...
... course on the northern side of the watershed , thus bringing to their own side much of the rainfall which should by rights go to the far thirstier plains of Tibet and Bokharia . Nor is it only by storing the moisture in its snowdrifts ...
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... course of all the rivers of Dekhan from west to east . In scenery they are much sterner and grander than the Vindhya range , which they , moreover , surpass in elevation , their average height being uniformly about 3000 feet along the ...
... course of all the rivers of Dekhan from west to east . In scenery they are much sterner and grander than the Vindhya range , which they , moreover , surpass in elevation , their average height being uniformly about 3000 feet along the ...
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... course comes the cocoa - palm , which , with the manifold uses which every part of it , from fruit to root , is made to serve , supplies well- nigh all the necessaries of life to many an island where it is the natives ' only resource ...
... course comes the cocoa - palm , which , with the manifold uses which every part of it , from fruit to root , is made to serve , supplies well- nigh all the necessaries of life to many an island where it is the natives ' only resource ...
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... course the use of the plant must have begun with chewing and sucking chunks of the cane , as is still done by the natives of the Indian Islands - and by children in the Southern American States and South 16. In so necessarily cursory a ...
... course the use of the plant must have begun with chewing and sucking chunks of the cane , as is still done by the natives of the Indian Islands - and by children in the Southern American States and South 16. In so necessarily cursory a ...
Page 39
... course troublesome and ruinous ; but nothing can express the horror of having " a man - eater " in the district , i . e . , a tiger , generally an old one , which has once tasted human flesh and blood , and thenceforth , from a hideous ...
... course troublesome and ruinous ; but nothing can express the horror of having " a man - eater " in the district , i . e . , a tiger , generally an old one , which has once tasted human flesh and blood , and thenceforth , from a hideous ...
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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.