The Story of Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-VedaG. P. Putnam's sons, 1895 - 457 pages |
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... known as the MONSOONS , or rather on the southwestern monsoon which sets in in June , laden with the accumulated vapors exhaled through many months by the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean , and condensed in mid - air into huge solid ...
... known as the MONSOONS , or rather on the southwestern monsoon which sets in in June , laden with the accumulated vapors exhaled through many months by the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean , and condensed in mid - air into huge solid ...
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... known , all too modestly con- sidering its size , as the Bay of Bengal . 10. There was a time when the whole of Southern India or Dekhan was " buried under forests " ; such is the description in which all ancient poets agree . It would ...
... known , all too modestly con- sidering its size , as the Bay of Bengal . 10. There was a time when the whole of Southern India or Dekhan was " buried under forests " ; such is the description in which all ancient poets agree . It would ...
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... known as " Indian fig - tree " ( Ficus Indica ) , surely may claim to be admired as the paragon not only of its own species , but of all vegeta- tion without exception . It takes so influential and prominent a place in the life , both ...
... known as " Indian fig - tree " ( Ficus Indica ) , surely may claim to be admired as the paragon not only of its own species , but of all vegeta- tion without exception . It takes so influential and prominent a place in the life , both ...
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... known under its popular name of banyan than under the scientific one of Ficus Indica , ' the tree which , together 1 This name is supposed to come from the fact that the tree was carried westward by Hindu tradesmen called banyans . This ...
... known under its popular name of banyan than under the scientific one of Ficus Indica , ' the tree which , together 1 This name is supposed to come from the fact that the tree was carried westward by Hindu tradesmen called banyans . This ...
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... known to have been twenty - eight feet in diameter , and to have been surrounded by a first circle of twenty - seven secondary trunks , each about eleven feet in diameter , and from thirty to fifty feet in height , and after that by ...
... known to have been twenty - eight feet in diameter , and to have been surrounded by a first circle of twenty - seven secondary trunks , each about eleven feet in diameter , and from thirty to fifty feet in height , and after that by ...
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abode Aditi Âdityas Agni ancient Angiras Aryan Âryas Ashvins Asura Avesta beautiful Bergaigne born Brahmanic Brihaspati called caste celestial Chaldea chariot course cows darkness Dasyu Dawn deity Devas divine Dravidian Dyâus earth Eranian father fire forest give gods golden Greek heaven heavenly Hindu Hindustân horses human hymns immortal India Indra Indus king land language later light living Manu Maruts Max Müller means modern mortal mother mountain myth mythical native nature night original Parjanya passages path Penjâb plants poet poetical prayer priestly priests Purânas race religion Rig-Veda Rishi rites rivers root sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saramâ Savitar Serpent Shûdra Soma spirit Story of Chaldea Story of Media Sudâs Sûrya texts thee things thou tion tree tribes Tritsu Tvashtar Ushas Váruna Vasishtha Veda Vedic verse Vishnu Vishvakarman Vishvâmitra 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 Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 338 - But with thee will I establish my covenant ; and thou shalt come into the ark ; thou and thy sons, and thy wife* and thy sons wives with thee.
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 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.
Page 242 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart...