A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... Daitya princess named Ushā , daughter of Bāna , fell in love with him , and had him brought by magic influence to her apartments in her father's city of Sonita - pura . Bāna sent some guards to seize him , but the valiant youth , taking ...
... Daitya princess named Ushā , daughter of Bāna , fell in love with him , and had him brought by magic influence to her apartments in her father's city of Sonita - pura . Bāna sent some guards to seize him , but the valiant youth , taking ...
Page 18
... Daitya princess . He refused to exchange his youthful vigour for the curse of decrepitude passed upon his father , and in consequence his father cursed him that his posterity should not possess dominion . Notwithstanding this , he had a ...
... Daitya princess . He refused to exchange his youthful vigour for the curse of decrepitude passed upon his father , and in consequence his father cursed him that his posterity should not possess dominion . Notwithstanding this , he had a ...
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... Daitya , and son of Bali , who attacked Krishna in the form of a savage bull , and was slain by him . ARJUNA . ' White . ' The name of the third Pandu prince . All the five brothers were of divine paternity , and Arjuna's father was ...
... Daitya , and son of Bali , who attacked Krishna in the form of a savage bull , and was slain by him . ARJUNA . ' White . ' The name of the third Pandu prince . All the five brothers were of divine paternity , and Arjuna's father was ...
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... Daitya king to pieces . These four incarnations are supposed to have appeared in the Satya - yuga , or first age of the world . 5. Vamana . ' The dwarf . ' The origin of this incarnation is " the three strides of Vishnu , " spoken of in ...
... Daitya king to pieces . These four incarnations are supposed to have appeared in the Satya - yuga , or first age of the world . 5. Vamana . ' The dwarf . ' The origin of this incarnation is " the three strides of Vishnu , " spoken of in ...
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... printed . BALEYA . A descendant of Bali , a Daitya . BALHI . A northern country , Balkh . Said in the Maha- bharata to be famous for its horses , as Balkh is to the present time . 42 BALHIKAS - BARBARAS . BĀLHĪKAS , BĀHLĪKAS . "
... printed . BALEYA . A descendant of Bali , a Daitya . BALHI . A northern country , Balkh . Said in the Maha- bharata to be famous for its horses , as Balkh is to the present time . 42 BALHIKAS - BARBARAS . BĀLHĪKAS , BĀHLĪKAS . "
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According Aditi Agni Arjuna Asuras Aswins Avatāra Bala-rāma became Bhāgavata Bharata Bhima Bhishma Bhrigu Bibliotheca Indica birth born Brahman Brihaspati brother called celebrated chariot curse Daitya Daksha Dasa-ratha daughter of Daksha deity demon descended Dhrita-rashtra divine drama Draupadi Drona Dur-yodhana Durgā earth father female fire forest Gandharvas Ganges gave goddess gods Hari-vansa heaven Hindu horse husband hymns incarnation India Indra Karna Kāsī Kasyapa Kauravas killed king Krishna Kshatriya Kuvera Lakshmana legend Linga lord Lunar race Mahā-bhārata Manu Meru mother mountain Nala nymph ocean Pandavas Pandu Parasu-rāma personified Pitris poem Prajapati priest princes Purāna Rāja Rakshasas Rāma Rāmāyana Rāvana represented Rig-veda Rishi river Rudra sacrifice sage Sanhita Sanskrit Saraswati Satapatha Brahmana says serpent seven Sītā Siva Solar race Soma sons sprang story told translated Upanishad Varuna Vasishtha Vayu Vedas Vedic verses Vishnu Vishnu Purāna Viswamitra Vyasa wife worship Yadavas Yajnawalkya Yama Yudhi-shthira
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Page 142 - Willst du was reizt und entziickt, willst du was sattigt und nahrt, Willst du den Himmel, die Erde, mit Einem Namen begreifen; Nenn' ich, Sakontala, Dich, und so ist Alles gesagt.
Page x - Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient poems of India from the most ancient literature of Greece more clearly felt than when we compare the growing myths of the Veda with the full-grown and decayed myths on which the poetry of Homer is founded. The Veda is the real Theogony of the Aryan races, while that of Hesiod is a distorted caricature of the original image.
Page 350 - Eakshasa are objects of horror whom the gods ward off and destroy ; the divinities of the Atharva are regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated and whose favour curried...
Page 107 - He is represented as a short fat man of a yellow colour, with a protuberant belly, four hands, and the head of an elephant, which has only one tusk. In...
Page 146 - Desire first arose in It, which was the primal germ of mind ; [and which] sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects entity with non-entity.