A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and LiteratureTrübner & Company, 1870 - 411 pages |
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... thousand , fifteen thousand , and fourteen thousand stanzas . " This work is devoted to the glorification of Siva , but its contents are of a very varied and cyclopædical character . It has portions on ritual and mystic worship ...
... thousand , fifteen thousand , and fourteen thousand stanzas . " This work is devoted to the glorification of Siva , but its contents are of a very varied and cyclopædical character . It has portions on ritual and mystic worship ...
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... thousand arms and heads , two thousand eyes and feet , and called Andhaka because he walked like a blind man , although he saw very well . He was slain by Siva when he attempted to carry off the Pārijāta tree from Swarga . From this ...
... thousand arms and heads , two thousand eyes and feet , and called Andhaka because he walked like a blind man , although he saw very well . He was slain by Siva when he attempted to carry off the Pārijāta tree from Swarga . From this ...
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... had been carried off from Sagara's Aswa - medha sacrifice , and he discovered the remains of that king's sixty thousand sons , who had been killed by the fire of the wrath of Kapila . B 18 ANTAKA - APARNĂ . ANTAKA . ' The ender.
... had been carried off from Sagara's Aswa - medha sacrifice , and he discovered the remains of that king's sixty thousand sons , who had been killed by the fire of the wrath of Kapila . B 18 ANTAKA - APARNĂ . ANTAKA . ' The ender.
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... thousand and sixty are the principal . ” The Apsarases , then , are fairylike beings , beautiful and volup- tuous . They are the wives or the mistresses of the Gandharvas , and are not prudish in the dispensation of their favours ...
... thousand and sixty are the principal . ” The Apsarases , then , are fairylike beings , beautiful and volup- tuous . They are the wives or the mistresses of the Gandharvas , and are not prudish in the dispensation of their favours ...
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... thousand years he slew the demon and raised up the earth . 6 4. Nara - sinha , or Nri - sinha . The man - lion . ' Vishnu assumed this form to deliver the world from the tyranny of Hiranya- kasipu , a demon who , by the favour of Brahma ...
... thousand years he slew the demon and raised up the earth . 6 4. Nara - sinha , or Nri - sinha . The man - lion . ' Vishnu assumed this form to deliver the world from the tyranny of Hiranya- kasipu , a demon who , by the favour of Brahma ...
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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.