A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... death of Ravana at the hands of 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 ...
... death of Ravana at the hands of 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 ...
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... death , and set out to avenge him . The lad was possessed of great ability and wisdom . He got the better of the sage who had worsted his father , and insisted that the sage should be thrown into the water . The sage then declared ...
... death , and set out to avenge him . The lad was possessed of great ability and wisdom . He got the better of the sage who had worsted his father , and insisted that the sage should be thrown into the water . The sage then declared ...
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... death as he lay . He then killed Sikhandin , the other son of Drupada , and he also killed the five young sons of the Pandavas and carried their heads to the dying Dur - yodhana . He killed Parikshit , while yet unborn in the womb of ...
... death as he lay . He then killed Sikhandin , the other son of Drupada , and he also killed the five young sons of the Pandavas and carried their heads to the dying Dur - yodhana . He killed Parikshit , while yet unborn in the womb of ...
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... death , his descendants , who had fallen into poverty , begged help from the Bhrigus , and met with no liberal response . Some of them buried their money , and when this was discovered the impoverished Kshatriyas were so exasperated ...
... death , his descendants , who had fallen into poverty , begged help from the Bhrigus , and met with no liberal response . Some of them buried their money , and when this was discovered the impoverished Kshatriyas were so exasperated ...
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... death of the Asura Vritra is told , and in which the mortals and immortals of the Saraswata Kalpa , with the events that then happened to them in the world , are related , that is celebrated as the Bhāgavata , and consists of 18,000 ...
... death of the Asura Vritra is told , and in which the mortals and immortals of the Saraswata Kalpa , with the events that then happened to them in the world , are related , that is celebrated as the Bhāgavata , and consists of 18,000 ...
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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.