 Sprung from the blood of countless oxen shed. The sacrifice of the horse or of the cow, the g6m4dha or aswamtdd, appears to have been common in the earliest periods of the Hindu ritual. It has been conceived, that the sacrifice was not real but typical,...  Scenes from the Ramayan, Etc - Page 153by Vālmīki, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith - 1868 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Kālidāsa - 1814 - 192 pages
...the blood of countless oxen shed. The sacrifice of the horse or of the cow, the g6m4dha or aswamtdd, appears to have been common in the earliest periods...a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood of the kine into a river, certainly implies that blood was diffused. The expression of the original, literally... | |
 | Vālmīki, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith - 1868 - 244 pages
...obeisance to that stream be made That sprang in olden time from sacred gore Of hecatombs by Rantideva paid/ 1 Skanda, or Kartikeya, the War-God, born to destroy...a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood of the kine into a river certainly implies that blood was diffused. The expression of the original, literally... | |
 | John Garrett - 1871 - 978 pages
...have been common in the earliest periods of the Hindu ritual. " It has been conceived" says WILSON, "that the sacrifice was not real, but typical ; and...which it was set at liberty. The text of this passage (in the Meghaduta) however, is unfavourable to such a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood of... | |
 | John Garrett - 1873 - 174 pages
...have been common in the earliest periods of the Hindu ritual. " It has been conceived" says WILSON, " that the sacrifice was not real, but typical ; and...which it was set at liberty. The text of this passage (in the Meghaduta) however, is unfavourable to such a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood of... | |
 | John Garrett (director of public instruction in Mysore.) - 1873 - 174 pages
...have been common in the earliest periods of the Hindu ritual. " It has been conceived" says WILSON, " that the sacrifice was not real, but typical ; and...which it was set at liberty. The text of this passage (in the Meghaduta) however, is unfavourable to such a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood of... | |
 | Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja) - 1881 - 486 pages
...Meghad&ta, Professor Wilson said, " the sacrifice of the horse or of the cow, the gomedlia or as'vamedha, appears to have been common in the earliest periods...at liberty. The text of this passage, however, is unfavorable to such a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood of the kine into a river certainly... | |
 | Kālidāsa - 1890 - 112 pages
...from the Mood of countless oxen shed,} The sacrifice of the horse or of the cow, the "fY%^T or ^f^^J appears to have been common in the earliest periods...which it was Set at liberty : the text of this passage howeve»i3 unfavorable to such a notion, as the metamorphosis of the blood ol the kine into a" river,... | |
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