A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... known . ABHIDHANA . A dictionary or vocabulary . There are many such works . One of the oldest of them is the Abhidhāna ratna - mālā of Halāyudha Bhatta ( circa 7th cent . ) , and one of the best is the Abhidhana Chinta - mani of Hema ...
... known . ABHIDHANA . A dictionary or vocabulary . There are many such works . One of the oldest of them is the Abhidhāna ratna - mālā of Halāyudha Bhatta ( circa 7th cent . ) , and one of the best is the Abhidhana Chinta - mani of Hema ...
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... known , and one of the most celebrated vocabularies of the classical Sanskrit . " It has been the subject of a great number of com- mentaries . The text has been often printed . There is an edition published in India with an English ...
... known , and one of the most celebrated vocabularies of the classical Sanskrit . " It has been the subject of a great number of com- mentaries . The text has been often printed . There is an edition published in India with an English ...
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... known to the Vedas , and seems to have been applied to various things offered in sacrifice , but more especially to the Soma juice . It is also called Nir - jara and Piyusha . In later times it was the water of life produced at the ...
... known to the Vedas , and seems to have been applied to various things offered in sacrifice , but more especially to the Soma juice . It is also called Nir - jara and Piyusha . In later times it was the water of life produced at the ...
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... known to Pliny as gens Andara . ANDHRA - BHRITYA . A dynasty of kings that reigned in Magadha somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era . The name seems to indicate that its founder was a native of Andhra , now Telingana . ANGA ...
... known to Pliny as gens Andara . ANDHRA - BHRITYA . A dynasty of kings that reigned in Magadha somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era . The name seems to indicate that its founder was a native of Andhra , now Telingana . ANGA ...
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... known under his patronymic Karta - virya ( q.v. ) . ARTHA - SASTRA . The useful arts . Mechanical science . ARUNA . ' Red , rosy . ' The dawn , personified as the charioteer 24 of the sun . ARUNDHATI - ARYAVARTA . This.
... known under his patronymic Karta - virya ( q.v. ) . ARTHA - SASTRA . The useful arts . Mechanical science . ARUNA . ' Red , rosy . ' The dawn , personified as the charioteer 24 of the sun . ARUNDHATI - ARYAVARTA . This.
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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.