Indian Wisdom, Or, Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical Doctrines of the Hindūs: With a Brief History of the Chief Departments of Sanskṛit Literature, and Some Account of the Past and Present Condition of India, Moral and IntellectualW.H. Allen, 1875 - 542 pages |
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... Universe . On the other hand , nothing can be more devoid of simplicity , nothing more multiform and capable of divergence into endless ramifications than the exoteric and popular side of the same creed . This apparent gulf between ...
... Universe . On the other hand , nothing can be more devoid of simplicity , nothing more multiform and capable of divergence into endless ramifications than the exoteric and popular side of the same creed . This apparent gulf between ...
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... universe . And although innumerable gods and goddesses , gifted with a thousand shapes , now crowd the Hindū Pan- theon , appealing to the instincts of the unthinking millions whose capacity for religious ideas is supposed to require ...
... universe . And although innumerable gods and goddesses , gifted with a thousand shapes , now crowd the Hindū Pan- theon , appealing to the instincts of the unthinking millions whose capacity for religious ideas is supposed to require ...
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... universe . For it is evident that this later creed was not so much monotheistic ( by which I mean the belief in one god regarded as a personal Being external to the universe , though creating and governing it ) as pantheistic ; Brahman ...
... universe . For it is evident that this later creed was not so much monotheistic ( by which I mean the belief in one god regarded as a personal Being external to the universe , though creating and governing it ) as pantheistic ; Brahman ...
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... universe , was not the earth also an object of adoration with the early Hindūs ? it should be stated that in the earlier system the earth under the name of Prithivi , ' the broad one , ' does receive divine honours , being thought of as ...
... universe , was not the earth also an object of adoration with the early Hindūs ? it should be stated that in the earlier system the earth under the name of Prithivi , ' the broad one , ' does receive divine honours , being thought of as ...
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... universe , as gamesters handle dice . May thy destroying snares cast sevenfold round the wicked , Entangle liars , but the truthful spare , O king ! 3 pass from the ancient Aryan deity Varuna to the more thoroughly Indian god Indra ...
... universe , as gamesters handle dice . May thy destroying snares cast sevenfold round the wicked , Entangle liars , but the truthful spare , O king ! 3 pass from the ancient Aryan deity Varuna to the more thoroughly Indian god Indra ...
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