A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page xii
... legends were in- vented to illustrate them . These speculations and illustrations in course of time hardened into shape , and became realities when the ideas which gave them birth were no longer remem- bered and understood . The ...
... legends were in- vented to illustrate them . These speculations and illustrations in course of time hardened into shape , and became realities when the ideas which gave them birth were no longer remem- bered and understood . The ...
Page xiii
... legends have gathered round the favourite divinities , and many more have been built upon fanciful etymologies of the old names . The simple primitive fancies suggested by the opera- tions of nature have disappeared , and have been ...
... legends have gathered round the favourite divinities , and many more have been built upon fanciful etymologies of the old names . The simple primitive fancies suggested by the opera- tions of nature have disappeared , and have been ...
Page xiv
... 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 are heroes still ; their exploits , with many embellishments and sectarial ...
... 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 are heroes still ; their exploits , with many embellishments and sectarial ...
Page xv
... legends are of trifling importance . The stories of the Epic poems even are of no great value . It may be , as has been maintained , that they " are simply different versions of one and the same story , and that this story has its ...
... legends are of trifling importance . The stories of the Epic poems even are of no great value . It may be , as has been maintained , that they " are simply different versions of one and the same story , and that this story has its ...
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... legend respecting the creation of his wife . It says that Agastya saw his ancestors suspended by their heels in a pit , and was told by them that they could be rescued only by his begetting a son . Thereupon he formed a girl out of the ...
... legend respecting the creation of his wife . It says that Agastya saw his ancestors suspended by their heels in a pit , and was told by them that they could be rescued only by his begetting a son . Thereupon he formed a girl out of the ...
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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.