A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... sage from whom the Rakshasas sprang . He was one of the narrators of the Brahma Purana and also a writer on medicine . The Maha - bharata relates a legend respecting the creation of his wife . It says that Agastya saw his ancestors ...
... sage from whom the Rakshasas sprang . He was one of the narrators of the Brahma Purana and also a writer on medicine . The Maha - bharata relates a legend respecting the creation of his wife . It says that Agastya saw his ancestors ...
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... sage received him with the greatest kindness , and became his friend , adviser , and pro- tector . He gave him the bow of Vishnu ; and when Rama was restored to his kingdom , the sage accompanied him to Ayodhya . The name of Agastya ...
... sage received him with the greatest kindness , and became his friend , adviser , and pro- tector . He gave him the bow of Vishnu ; and when Rama was restored to his kingdom , the sage accompanied him to Ayodhya . The name of Agastya ...
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... sage , repaired to Vishnu , beseeching him for renewed vigour and the gift of immortality . He directed them to churn the ocean for the Amrita and other precious things which had been lost . The story as told in the Vishnu Purāna has ...
... sage , repaired to Vishnu , beseeching him for renewed vigour and the gift of immortality . He directed them to churn the ocean for the Amrita and other precious things which had been lost . The story as told in the Vishnu Purāna has ...
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... sage who had worsted his father , and insisted that the sage should be thrown into the water . The sage then declared himself to be a son of Varuna , god of the waters , who had sent him to obtain Brahmans for officiating at a sacrifice ...
... sage who had worsted his father , and insisted that the sage should be thrown into the water . The sage then declared himself to be a son of Varuna , god of the waters , who had sent him to obtain Brahmans for officiating at a sacrifice ...
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... sage , son of Jarat - kāru by a sister of the great serpent Vāsuki . He saved the life of the serpent Takshaka when Janamejaya made his great sacrifice of serpents , and induced that king to forego his persecution of the serpent race ...
... sage , son of Jarat - kāru by a sister of the great serpent Vāsuki . He saved the life of the serpent Takshaka when Janamejaya made his great sacrifice of serpents , and induced that king to forego his persecution of the serpent race ...
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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.