A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... fire , the sun , the cloud , and the other powers of nature , they saw beings who directed them in their beneficent and evil operations . To these imaginary beings they addressed their praises , and to them they put up their prayers for ...
... fire , the sun , the cloud , and the other powers of nature , they saw beings who directed them in their beneficent and evil operations . To these imaginary beings they addressed their praises , and to them they put up their prayers for ...
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... ( Fire ) and Surya ( the Sun ) held a place , and the third place was assigned either to Vayu ( the Wind ) or to Indra ( god of the sky ) . Towards the end of the Rig - veda Sanhitā , in the hymns of the latest date , the idea of one ...
... ( Fire ) and Surya ( the Sun ) held a place , and the third place was assigned either to Vayu ( the Wind ) or to Indra ( god of the sky ) . Towards the end of the Rig - veda Sanhitā , in the hymns of the latest date , the idea of one ...
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... fires . " See Agni . ABHIMANYU . Son of Arjuna by his wife Su - bhadra , and known by the metronymic Saubhadra . He killed Lakshmana , the son of Dur - yodhana , on the second day of the great battle - of the Maha - bhārata , but on the ...
... fires . " See Agni . ABHIMANYU . Son of Arjuna by his wife Su - bhadra , and known by the metronymic Saubhadra . He killed Lakshmana , the son of Dur - yodhana , on the second day of the great battle - of the Maha - bhārata , but on the ...
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... fire . ' Given by Bharad- waja to Agnivesa , the son of Agni , and by him to Drona . similar weapon was , according ... Fire , one of the most ancient and most sacred objects of Hindu worship . He appears in three phases — in heaven as ...
... fire . ' Given by Bharad- waja to Agnivesa , the son of Agni , and by him to Drona . similar weapon was , according ... Fire , one of the most ancient and most sacred objects of Hindu worship . He appears in three phases — in heaven as ...
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... Fire has ceased to be an object of worship , but is held in honour for the part it performs in sacrifices . " Agni ... fires , which forty - nine fires the Vayu Purāna endeavours to discriminate . He is described in the Hari - vansa as ...
... Fire has ceased to be an object of worship , but is held in honour for the part it performs in sacrifices . " Agni ... fires , which forty - nine fires the Vayu Purāna endeavours to discriminate . He is described in the Hari - vansa as ...
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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.