A History of Civilization in Ancient India: Vedic and epic agesThacker, Spink and Company, 1889 - 1189 pages |
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... Varuna , the sky ; and probably , Prometheus and Hephaistos are the Vedic Pramantha and Yavishtha , the fire ! To the Hindus the Rig Veda is a work of still higher importance . It explains the whole fabric of the later Hindu religion ...
... Varuna , the sky ; and probably , Prometheus and Hephaistos are the Vedic Pramantha and Yavishtha , the fire ! To the Hindus the Rig Veda is a work of still higher importance . It explains the whole fabric of the later Hindu religion ...
Page 63
... Varuna is said to know the paths of the birds through the sky , and the paths of the ships over the sea . In IV , 55 , 6 , the poet refers to the " people who desiring to acquire wealth pray to the sea before undertaking a voyage ...
... Varuna is said to know the paths of the birds through the sky , and the paths of the ships over the sea . In IV , 55 , 6 , the poet refers to the " people who desiring to acquire wealth pray to the sea before undertaking a voyage ...
Page 84
... Varuna ! help us and speak to us ( words of com- fort ) . " 3. O Indra and Varuna ! the ends of the earth seem to be lost , and the noise ascends to the skies ! The troops of the enemy are approaching . O Indra and Varuna ! who ever ...
... Varuna ! help us and speak to us ( words of com- fort ) . " 3. O Indra and Varuna ! the ends of the earth seem to be lost , and the noise ascends to the skies ! The troops of the enemy are approaching . O Indra and Varuna ! who ever ...
Page 85
... Varuna ! you pierced the yet un- assailed Bheda , and saved Sudâs . You listened to the prayers of the Tritsus . Their priestly vocation bore fruit in the hour of battle . “ 5. O Indra and Varuna ! the weapons of the enemy assail me in ...
... Varuna ! you pierced the yet un- assailed Bheda , and saved Sudâs . You listened to the prayers of the Tritsus . Their priestly vocation bore fruit in the hour of battle . “ 5. O Indra and Varuna ! the weapons of the enemy assail me in ...
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... Varuna make you immovable ! May the good Brihaspati make you immovable ; may Indra and Agni support you and make you immovable . " 6. See , I mix these immortal offerings with the immortal Soma - juice . Indra has brought your sub ...
... Varuna make you immovable ! May the good Brihaspati make you immovable ; may Indra and Agni support you and make you immovable . " 6. See , I mix these immortal offerings with the immortal Soma - juice . Indra has brought your sub ...
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Page 74 - These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ? See rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For...
Page ii - 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 Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 124 - Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky.
Page 293 - When to a man who understands, the Self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity ? 8.
Page 291 - I am this or that river, in the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True. Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a mosquito, that they become again and again.
Page 291 - Place this salt in water, and then wait on me in the morning.' The son did as he was commanded. The father said to him : ' Bring me the salt, which you placed in the water last night.
Page 243 - He said to him : Of what family are you, my friend ? He replied : I do not know, Sir, of what family I am. I asked my mother and she answered " In my youth when I had to move about much as a servant, I conceived thee. I do not know of what family thou art. I am Jabala by name, thou art Satyakama.
Page 116 - Language," and he explains that ' the surprise with which many a thoughtful observer has looked at these seven bright stars, wondering why they were ever called the Bear, is removed by reference to the early annals of human speech.
Page 120 - Miiller maintains that the story of the siege of Troy is a development of this simple Vedic myth, and is " but a repetition of the daily siege of the East by the Solar powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west.