A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page ix
... Comparative philology and mythology go hand in hand ; and as the language of the Vedas has proved the great critical instrument in the construction of the science of philology , so the X INTRODUCTION . simple myths of the Vedic hymns ...
... Comparative philology and mythology go hand in hand ; and as the language of the Vedas has proved the great critical instrument in the construction of the science of philology , so the X INTRODUCTION . simple myths of the Vedic hymns ...
Page x
... Vedas has in many instances supplied this clue , and led to a definite comprehension of what was previously hidden and obscure . The Vedic hymns have preserved the myths in their primitive forms , and , says Max Müller , " Nowhere is ...
... Vedas has in many instances supplied this clue , and led to a definite comprehension of what was previously hidden and obscure . The Vedic hymns have preserved the myths in their primitive forms , and , says Max Müller , " Nowhere is ...
Page xi
... veda Sanhitā , in the hymns of the latest date , the idea of one Supreme Being assumed a more definite shape , and the Hindu mind was per- ceiving , even if it had not distinctly realised , the great con- ception . As the Vedic hymns ...
... veda Sanhitā , in the hymns of the latest date , the idea of one Supreme Being assumed a more definite shape , and the Hindu mind was per- ceiving , even if it had not distinctly realised , the great con- ception . As the Vedic hymns ...
Page xiii
... Vedas , was the friend and companion of Indra and strode over the universe , has become the great deity of preserva- tion ... Vedic myths is entirely lost , their origin is forgotten , and the signification and composition of many of the ...
... Vedas , was the friend and companion of Indra and strode over the universe , has become the great deity of preserva- tion ... Vedic myths is entirely lost , their origin is forgotten , and the signification and composition of many of the ...
Page xiv
... Vedic writings out of which it grew , and the descendant bears but few marks of resemblance to its remote ancestor . The Puranas and later writings are the great authorities of modern Hinduism ; their mythology and legends fill the ...
... Vedic writings out of which it grew , and the descendant bears but few marks of resemblance to its remote ancestor . The Puranas and later writings are the great authorities of modern Hinduism ; their mythology and legends fill the ...
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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.