A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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Page x
... origin of the myth is not far to seek . The language of the Vedas has in many instances supplied this clue , and led to a definite comprehension of what was previously hidden and obscure . The Vedic hymns have preserved the myths in ...
... origin of the myth is not far to seek . The language of the Vedas has in many instances supplied this clue , and led to a definite comprehension of what was previously hidden and obscure . The Vedic hymns have preserved the myths in ...
Page xi
... origin of the world and of the human race invested them with new attributes . Later on , in the Aranyakas and Upanishads , which form part of the collective Brahmana , a further development took place , but principally in a ...
... origin of the world and of the human race invested them with new attributes . Later on , in the Aranyakas and Upanishads , which form part of the collective Brahmana , a further development took place , but principally in a ...
Page xii
... origin of the world , theories were founded upon etymologies , and 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 ...
... origin of the world , theories were founded upon etymologies , and 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 ...
Page xiii
... origin is forgotten , and the signification and composition of many of the mythic names are unknown . Mar- vellous legends have gathered round the favourite divinities , and many more have been built upon fanciful etymologies of the old ...
... origin is forgotten , and the signification and composition of many of the mythic names are unknown . Mar- vellous legends have gathered round the favourite divinities , and many more have been built upon fanciful etymologies of the old ...
Page xv
... origin in the phenomena of the natural world and the course of the day and the year ; " but still they are of later date , and afford no direct clue for unravelling the mythology of the Aryan nations . The most ancient hymns of the Rig ...
... origin in the phenomena of the natural world and the course of the day and the year ; " but still they are of later date , and afford no direct clue for unravelling the mythology of the Aryan nations . The most ancient hymns of the Rig ...
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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.