A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page xiii
... rāma , Rāma- chandra , and Krishna , are mortal heroes , whose exploits are celebrated in these poems so fervently as to raise the heroes to the rank of gods . The ninth Avatāra , Buddha , is manifestly and avowedly the offspring of the ...
... rāma , Rāma- chandra , and Krishna , are mortal heroes , whose exploits are celebrated in these poems so fervently as to raise the heroes to the rank of gods . The ninth Avatāra , Buddha , is manifestly and avowedly the offspring of the ...
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... Rāma in his exile wandered to the hermitage of Agastya with Sītā and Lakshmana . The sage received him with the greatest kindness , and became his friend , adviser , and pro- tector . He gave him the bow of Vishnu ; and when Rama was ...
... Rāma in his exile wandered to the hermitage of Agastya with Sītā and Lakshmana . The sage received him with the greatest kindness , and became his friend , adviser , and pro- tector . He gave him the bow of Vishnu ; and when Rama was ...
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... Rama and reconciled to her husband . This seduction is explained mythically by Kumarila Bhatta as Indra ( the sun's ) carrying away the shades of night - the name Ahalya , by a strained etymology , being made to signify ... Rāma . The.
... Rama and reconciled to her husband . This seduction is explained mythically by Kumarila Bhatta as Indra ( the sun's ) carrying away the shades of night - the name Ahalya , by a strained etymology , being made to signify ... Rāma . The.
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... Rāma to Mathura when the former broke the great bow . He is chiefly noted as being the holder of the Syamantaka gem . AKSHA . The eldest son of Rāvana , slain by Hanuman . Also a name of Garuda . AKSHAMĀLĀ . A name of Arundhati ( q.v. ) ...
... Rāma to Mathura when the former broke the great bow . He is chiefly noted as being the holder of the Syamantaka gem . AKSHA . The eldest son of Rāvana , slain by Hanuman . Also a name of Garuda . AKSHAMĀLĀ . A name of Arundhati ( q.v. ) ...
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... Rama , a descendant of Anaranya . ANARGHA RAGHAVA . A drama in seven acts by Murāri Misra , possibly written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century . Raghava or Rāma is the hero of the piece . " It has no dramatic merit , being ...
... Rama , a descendant of Anaranya . ANARGHA RAGHAVA . A drama in seven acts by Murāri Misra , possibly written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century . Raghava or Rāma is the hero of the piece . " It has no dramatic merit , being ...
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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.