A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... printed which might well have been left unnoticed . But while I have no expectation of any near approach to perfection , I do hope that a good beginning has been made , and that a basis has been laid on which a greater and more worthy ...
... printed which might well have been left unnoticed . But while I have no expectation of any near approach to perfection , I do hope that a good beginning has been made , and that a basis has been laid on which a greater and more worthy ...
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... The supreme spirit , the soul of the uni- verse . ADHYATMA RĀMĀYANA . A very popular work , which is considered to be a part of the Brahmanda Purana . It has been printed in India . See Rāmāyaṇa . ADI - PURANA - ADITYA . 3 ‚ ĀDI -
... The supreme spirit , the soul of the uni- verse . ADHYATMA RĀMĀYANA . A very popular work , which is considered to be a part of the Brahmanda Purana . It has been printed in India . See Rāmāyaṇa . ADI - PURANA - ADITYA . 3 ‚ ĀDI -
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... printed . There is an edition published in India with an English interpretation and annotations by Colebrooke , and the text with a French transla- tion has been printed by Deslongchamps . AMARA SINHA . The author of the vocabulary ...
... printed . There is an edition published in India with an English interpretation and annotations by Colebrooke , and the text with a French transla- tion has been printed by Deslongchamps . AMARA SINHA . The author of the vocabulary ...
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... printed in the Sacred Books of the East by Max Müller . ĀPAVA . ' Who sports in the waters . ' A name of the same import as Nārāyana , and having a similar though not an identical application . According to the Brahma Purāna and the ...
... printed in the Sacred Books of the East by Max Müller . ĀPAVA . ' Who sports in the waters . ' A name of the same import as Nārāyana , and having a similar though not an identical application . According to the Brahma Purāna and the ...
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... printed in Muir's Texts , vol . v . : — " The myth of the Aswins is , in my opinion , one of that class of myths in which two distinct elements , the cosmical and the human or historical , have gradually become blended into one . It ...
... printed in Muir's Texts , vol . v . : — " The myth of the Aswins is , in my opinion , one of that class of myths in which two distinct elements , the cosmical and the human or historical , have gradually become blended into one . It ...
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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.