A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page ix
... later in date , and the second and third Vedas consist almost exclusively of hymns derived from the Rig , but specially arranged for religious purposes . The fourth or Atharva - veda borrows less from the Rig - veda , but it is ...
... later in date , and the second and third Vedas consist almost exclusively of hymns derived from the Rig , but specially arranged for religious purposes . The fourth or Atharva - veda borrows less from the Rig - veda , but it is ...
Page xi
... later days . In this triad Agni ( 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 ...
... later days . In this triad Agni ( 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 ...
Page xiii
... later age , when the worship of Vishnu had become established . The fifth , or Dwarf , whose three strides deprived the Asuras of the dominion of heaven and earth , is in its character anterior to the fourth Avatāra , and the three ...
... later age , when the worship of Vishnu had become established . The fifth , or Dwarf , whose three strides deprived the Asuras of the dominion of heaven and earth , is in its character anterior to the fourth Avatāra , and the three ...
Page xiv
... later writings are the great authorities of modern Hinduism ; their mythology and legends fill the popular mind and mould its thoughts . The wonderful tales of the great poems also exercise a great influence . The heroes of these poems ...
... later writings are the great authorities of modern Hinduism ; their mythology and legends fill the popular mind and mould its thoughts . The wonderful tales of the great poems also exercise a great influence . The heroes of these poems ...
Page xv
... later date , and afford no direct clue for unravelling the mythology of the Aryan nations . The most ancient hymns of the Rig - veda are the basis upon which comparative mythology rests , and they have already sup- plied the means of ...
... later date , and afford no direct clue for unravelling the mythology of the Aryan nations . The most ancient hymns of the Rig - veda are the basis upon which comparative mythology rests , and they have already sup- plied the means of ...
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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.