A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page ix
... hundred years before Christ is about the mean of the various ages assigned to them . The hymns form what is called the Rig - veda Sanhita , a collection which embraces all the extant compositions of the early Aryans . It is the Rig ...
... hundred years before Christ is about the mean of the various ages assigned to them . The hymns form what is called the Rig - veda Sanhita , a collection which embraces all the extant compositions of the early Aryans . It is the Rig ...
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... hundred stanzas written by a king named Amaru , but by some attributed to the philosopher Sankara , who assumed the dead form of that king for the purpose of conversing with his widow . The verses are of an erotic character , but , like ...
... hundred stanzas written by a king named Amaru , but by some attributed to the philosopher Sankara , who assumed the dead form of that king for the purpose of conversing with his widow . The verses are of an erotic character , but , like ...
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... hundred such sacrifices would enable a mortal king to overthrow the throne of Indra , and to become the ruler of the universe and sovereign of the gods . A horse of a particular colour was con- secrated by the performance of certain ...
... hundred such sacrifices would enable a mortal king to overthrow the throne of Indra , and to become the ruler of the universe and sovereign of the gods . A horse of a particular colour was con- secrated by the performance of certain ...
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... hundred arms . " The Satapatha Brahmana states , " She ( the earth ) was only so large , of the size of a span . boar called Emusha raised her up . Her lord , Prajapati , in A AVATARA . 35 consequence prospers him with this pair and.
... hundred arms . " The Satapatha Brahmana states , " She ( the earth ) was only so large , of the size of a span . boar called Emusha raised her up . Her lord , Prajapati , in A AVATARA . 35 consequence prospers him with this pair and.
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... hundred years is brought to a close , a period which it requires fifteen figures to express . When this period is ended he himself expires , and he and all the gods and sages , and the whole universe are resolved into their constituent ...
... hundred years is brought to a close , a period which it requires fifteen figures to express . When this period is ended he himself expires , and he and all the gods and sages , and the whole universe are resolved into their constituent ...
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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.