A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... Rishi , the reputed author of several hymns in the Rig - veda , and a very celebrated personage in Hindu story . He and Vasishtha are said in the Rig - veda to be the offspring of Mitra and Varuna , whose seed fell from them at the ...
... Rishi , the reputed author of several hymns in the Rig - veda , and a very celebrated personage in Hindu story . He and Vasishtha are said in the Rig - veda to be the offspring of Mitra and Varuna , whose seed fell from them at the ...
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... Rishi Gautama , and a very beautiful woman . In the Rāmāyana it is stated that she was the first woman made by Brahma , and that he gave her to Gautama . She was seduced by Indra , who had to suffer for his adultery . One version of the ...
... Rishi Gautama , and a very beautiful woman . In the Rāmāyana it is stated that she was the first woman made by Brahma , and that he gave her to Gautama . She was seduced by Indra , who had to suffer for his adultery . One version of the ...
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... Rishi who sold his son Sunah- sephas to be a sacrifice . AJITA . ' Unconquered . ' A title given to Vishnu , Siva , and many others . There were classes of gods bearing this name in several Manwantaras . AKRŪRA . A Yadava and uncle of ...
... Rishi who sold his son Sunah- sephas to be a sacrifice . AJITA . ' Unconquered . ' A title given to Vishnu , Siva , and many others . There were classes of gods bearing this name in several Manwantaras . AKRŪRA . A Yadava and uncle of ...
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... Rishi Atri . In the Rāmāyana she appears living with her husband in a hermitage in the forest south of Chitra - kūta . She was very pious and given to austere devotion , through which she had obtained miraculous powers . When Sītā ...
... Rishi Atri . In the Rāmāyana she appears living with her husband in a hermitage in the forest south of Chitra - kūta . She was very pious and given to austere devotion , through which she had obtained miraculous powers . When Sītā ...
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John Dowson. 16 ANGIRAS - ANGIRASAS . are attributed . ANGIRAS . A Rishi to whom many hymns of the Rig - veda He was one of the seven Maharshis or great Rishis , and also one of the ten Prajapatis or progenitors of man- kind . In later ...
John Dowson. 16 ANGIRAS - ANGIRASAS . are attributed . ANGIRAS . A Rishi to whom many hymns of the Rig - veda He was one of the seven Maharshis or great Rishis , and also one of the ten Prajapatis or progenitors of man- kind . In later ...
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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.