A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... Kasyapa , by whom she was mother of Vishnu , in his dwarf incarnation ( wherefore he is sometimes called Aditya ) , and also of Indra , and she is called " the mother of the gods " and " the mother of the world . " Indra acknowledged ...
... Kasyapa , by whom she was mother of Vishnu , in his dwarf incarnation ( wherefore he is sometimes called Aditya ) , and also of Indra , and she is called " the mother of the gods " and " the mother of the world . " Indra acknowledged ...
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... Kasyapa and Diti , with a thousand arms and heads , two thousand eyes and feet , and called Andhaka because he walked like a blind man , although he saw very well . He was slain by Siva when he attempted to carry off the Pārijāta tree ...
... Kasyapa and Diti , with a thousand arms and heads , two thousand eyes and feet , and called Andhaka because he walked like a blind man , although he saw very well . He was slain by Siva when he attempted to carry off the Pārijāta tree ...
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... Kasyapa and Kadru . He is also called Rumra , tawny , ' and by two epithets of which the mean- ing is not obvious , An - uru , ' thighless , ' and Āsmana , ' stony . ' 6 ARUNDHATĪ . The morning star , personified as the wife of the ...
... Kasyapa and Kadru . He is also called Rumra , tawny , ' and by two epithets of which the mean- ing is not obvious , An - uru , ' thighless , ' and Āsmana , ' stony . ' 6 ARUNDHATĪ . The morning star , personified as the wife of the ...
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... Kasyapa , but not including the Rakshasas descended from Pulastya . In this sense a different derivation has been found for it : the source is no longer asu , ' breath , ' but the initial a is taken as the negative prefix , and a - sura ...
... Kasyapa , but not including the Rakshasas descended from Pulastya . In this sense a different derivation has been found for it : the source is no longer asu , ' breath , ' but the initial a is taken as the negative prefix , and a - sura ...
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... Kasyapa and Aditi . The dwarf appeared before Bali , and begged of him as much land as he could step over in three paces . The generous monarch complied with the request . Vishnu took two strides over heaven and earth ; but respecting ...
... Kasyapa and Aditi . The dwarf appeared before Bali , and begged of him as much land as he could step over in three paces . The generous monarch complied with the request . Vishnu took two strides over heaven and earth ; but respecting ...
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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.