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... 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 The simple primitive fancies suggested by the opera- tions of nature have disappeared , and have been supplanted ...
... legends have gathered round the favourite divinities , and many more have been built upon fanciful etymologies of the old The simple primitive fancies suggested by the opera- tions of nature have disappeared , and have been supplanted ...
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... 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 Adityas Agni Arjuna Asuras Aswins Avatara Bala-rama became Bhagavata 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 Devi 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 Kasyapa Kauravas killed king Krishna Kshatriya Kuvera Lakshmana legend Linga lord Lunar race Maha-bharata Manu Meru mother mountain Nala nymph ocean Pandavas Pandu Parasu-rāma personified Pitris poem Prajapati priest princes Raja Rakshasa Rāma Rama's Rāmāyana Ravana 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 Purana Viswamitra Vyasa wife worship Yadavas Yajnawalkya Yajur-veda Yama Yudhi-shthira
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Page 142 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed? Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Sakoontala! and all at once is said.
Page 189 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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 284 - When once the river had acquired a divine character, it was quite natural that she should be regarded as the patroness of the ceremonies which were celebrated on the margin of her holy waters, and that her direction and blessing should be invoked as essential to their proper performance and success. The connection into which she was thus brought with sacred rites may have led to the further step of imagining her to have an influence on the composition of the hymns which formed so important a part,...
Page 349 - Others of a speculative mystical character are not wanting; yet their number is not so great as might naturally be expected, considering the development which the Hindu, religion received in the periods following after that of the primitive Veda. It seems in the main, that the Atharva is of popular rather than of priestly origin ; that, in making the transition from the Vedic to modern times, it forms an intermediate step rather to the gross idolatries and superstitions of the ignorant mass, than...
Page 30 - The myth of the Asvins 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 seems necessary, therefore, to separate these two elements in order to arrive at an understanding of the myth. The historical or human element in it, I believe, is represented by those legends which refer to the wonderful cures effected by the Asvins, and to their performances of a kindred sort ; the cosmical element...
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 13 - Hari, the lord, creator of the world, Thus by the gods implored, all graciously Replied, 'Your strength shall be restored, ye- gods, — Only accomplish what I now command : Unite yourselves in peaceful combination With these your foes ; collect all plants and herbs Of diverse kinds from every quarter ; cast them Into the sea of milk; take Mandara, The mountain, for a...
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.