Pearse's guide to Elephanta |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
34 per dozen Aerated Water amongst APOLLO STREET attendants avatars Bags Bhairava Bhringi BISCUITS boatmen Bombay Brahma Brahminical Bread 66 broken Bunder Cambric carved Cash Cave is excavated Caves of Elephanta Cavite Cigars centre chamber chapel Chattisgarh State Railway CHEROOTS cobra compartment CONFECTIONER consort dance defaced DESTROYER DEVONPORT DINDIGUL TOBACCO Dongargarh E. I. BRANDON East Wing eight arms elephant entrance ESPLANADE face faithfully feet female figure FINEST four arms Ganesha or Gunputti gave great satisfaction Gents Gharapuri gods hair hand he holds head-dress held Himalaya Hindu holds a lotus Indian Indra Kailasa Ladies left hand Linga shrine Mahadeva marriage mutilated Neuberg's paint pillars plantain POONA Ravan right hand Rings rock sacred sculpture seated Shiva and Parvati shoulders of Garuda side skull snake square STAMPS Temple third eye Travelling Triad represent Shiva TRICHINOPOLY Trimurti upborne Vevey Virabhadra Vishnu WEST WING WINES Yamuna دو وو
Popular passages
Page 6 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 6 - Perfect truth ; perfect happiness ; without equal ; immortal ; absolute unity; whom neither speech can describe nor mind comprehend; all-pervading ; all-transcending ; delighted with his own boundless intelligence ; not limited by space or time ; without feet, moving swiftly ; without hands, grasping all worlds ; without eyes, all-surveying ; without ears, all-hearing ; without an intelligent guide, understanding all ; without cause...
Page 6 - Veda, prove the author to have adored (not the visible material sun, but) that divine and incomparably greater light, to use the words of the most venerable text in the Indian scripture, which illumines all, delights all, from which all proceed, to which all must return, and which alone can irradiate (not our visual organs merely, but our souls and) our intellects.
Page 32 - His body is smeared with ashes from a funeral pile, around his neck hangs a string of human skulls, his forehead is streaked with a black line, his hair is wove into the matted braid, his loins are clothed with a tiger's skin, a hollow skull is in his left hand (for a cup), and in his right he carries a bell, which he rings incessantly, exclaiming aloud, Ho, Sambhu, Bhairava — ho lord of Kali.
Page 43 - May the dance of the victor of Tripura§ protect you — that dance to which space is wanting. Lightly treads the god lest he should overset the earth — he cramps his action lest his arms reach beyond the limits of the three worlds, and he bends his spark-emitting glances on vacuity, lest they should consume the objects on which they gaze.|| Enough.
Page 22 - Mounted on the sun's bright beam. Darter of the swift blue bolt, Sprinkler of genial dews and fruitful rains Over hills and thirsty plains.
Page 24 - Hindu mythology, is the mystical union of these three sacred rivers, the Ganges, Jumna, and Saraswati, severally the consorts or energies of the three great powers.
Page 7 - ... guide, understanding all; without cause, the first of all causes; all-ruling; all-powerful; the Creator, Preserver, Transformer of all things; such is the Great One: this the Vedas declare.
Page 46 - Union as well as our own, the committee concieve that we should be wanting in our duty, if we...
Page 35 - Parbati is a female figure carrying a child on her hip, from which it has been supposed that the face represents the birth of Ganesh or Ganpati, afterwards the elephantheaded god of wisdom. PMvana attempting to remove Kailas. — The visitor must now face completely round, and look to the N".