A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page ix
... character . The Āryan hymns of the Veda embody the ideas of the Indian immigrants . These ideas were inherited from their forefathers . They were originally the property of the united progenitors of the Aryan races , and the offshoots ...
... character . The Āryan hymns of the Veda embody the ideas of the Indian immigrants . These ideas were inherited from their forefathers . They were originally the property of the united progenitors of the Aryan races , and the offshoots ...
Page xi
... characters were frequently confounded , and there was a constant tendency to elevate now this one now that one to the supremacy , and to look upon him as the Great Power . In course of time a pre - eminence was given to a triad of ...
... characters were frequently confounded , and there was a constant tendency to elevate now this one now that one to the supremacy , and to look upon him as the Great Power . In course of time a pre - eminence was given to a triad of ...
Page xiii
... character anterior to the fourth Avatāra , and the three strides are attributed to Vishnu in the Veda . The fifth , sixth , and seventh , Parasu - rāma , Rāma- chandra , and Krishna , are mortal heroes , whose exploits are celebrated in ...
... character anterior to the fourth Avatāra , and the three strides are attributed to Vishnu in the Veda . The fifth , sixth , and seventh , Parasu - rāma , Rāma- chandra , and Krishna , are mortal heroes , whose exploits are celebrated in ...
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... character , abandon the conceptions which in a later age , and even in that of the heroic poems , were entertained regarding these deities . According to this conception they were twelve sun - gods , bearing evident reference to the ...
... character , abandon the conceptions which in a later age , and even in that of the heroic poems , were entertained regarding these deities . According to this conception they were twelve sun - gods , bearing evident reference to the ...
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... character . He is represented under a form as hideous as the beings he is invoked to devour . He sharpens his two iron tusks , puts his enemies into his mouth and swallows them . He heats the edges of his shafts and sends them into the ...
... character . He is represented under a form as hideous as the beings he is invoked to devour . He sharpens his two iron tusks , puts his enemies into his mouth and swallows them . He heats the edges of his shafts and sends them into 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.