Rig-Veda-Sanhitá: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns ..Edward Byles Cowell, William Frederick Webster W. H. Allen and Company, 1854 |
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Page viii
... born in the firma- ment and the sky ( p . 179 ) ; and in one place they are called the grandsons of heaven , being identified , according to the Scholiast , as on a former occasion , with the sun and moon , or being , in fact , mytholo ...
... born in the firma- ment and the sky ( p . 179 ) ; and in one place they are called the grandsons of heaven , being identified , according to the Scholiast , as on a former occasion , with the sun and moon , or being , in fact , mytholo ...
Page xvii
... born children ( p . 281 ) ; thieves are frequently mentioned debts and debtors are adverted to more than once , and although the idea is complicated with that of moral obligations , yet debt must originate in fact before it becomes a ...
... born children ( p . 281 ) ; thieves are frequently mentioned debts and debtors are adverted to more than once , and although the idea is complicated with that of moral obligations , yet debt must originate in fact before it becomes a ...
Page xxi
... born is known ; he who is known to be one with all beings ; or he from or by whom all wealth is generated : these are awkward terms to encounter , not because they cannot be comprehended , but because , unless given untranslated as ...
... born is known ; he who is known to be one with all beings ; or he from or by whom all wealth is generated : these are awkward terms to encounter , not because they cannot be comprehended , but because , unless given untranslated as ...
Page xxvi
... born in our race , and may thy good - will ever be upon us . " M. Langlois renders it- " O AGNI , en échange de nos invocations , fais que la terre soit à jamais libérale pour nous , et féconde en troupeaux : que nous ayons une belle ...
... born in our race , and may thy good - will ever be upon us . " M. Langlois renders it- " O AGNI , en échange de nos invocations , fais que la terre soit à jamais libérale pour nous , et féconde en troupeaux : que nous ayons une belle ...
Page xxix
... born himself , in the form of sons and grandsons , ' that is , a continuer of the race , an epithet of tanayah . In a repetition of the same stanza at the end of the seventh Súkta of the next book , Sáyaña alters his exposition , and ...
... born himself , in the form of sons and grandsons , ' that is , a continuer of the race , an epithet of tanayah . In a repetition of the same stanza at the end of the seventh Súkta of the next book , Sáyaña alters his exposition , and ...
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abundant accept according to Sáyaña Aditya adorable AGASTYA AGNI altar amongst Angirasas antariksha ANUVÁKA ARYAMAN Asuras AśWINS auspicious bestow Bhrigu blessed Brahman BRAHMAÑASPATI BRIHASPATI butter cattle ceremony chariot cherisher clouds coursers dawn deity deity and Rishi descendants desires divine drink dwelling enemies epithet exhilarating favour fire firmament foes giver glorify thee gods grandson grant Gritsamada heaven and earth holy horses hymn imply INDRA institutor invoke Jagatí libation lord Mahídhara Maruts mean metre mighty milk MITRA and VARUÑA oblations offered pious praises thee prayer present priests propitiate protection protector PÚSHAN radiant rain Rájá Rakshasas rays rendered riches Rishi RUDRA sacred grass sacred rites sacrifice sage SAVITRI Sáyaña explains Scholiast Scholiast explains showerer of benefits Soma juice stanza steeds strength SÚKTA thou art thou hast thunderbolt Trishtubh TWASHTRI Varga VÁYU Veda verily verse vigour VISHNU VRITRA wealth worship Yajur Veda Yajush
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Page xii - Aswamedha is to be celebrated by a monarch desirous of universal dominion, is not supported by these Hymns, any more than it is in the Ramayana, where it is nothing more than the means of obtaining a son by the childless DASARATHA...
Page 204 - I deposit the poison in the solar orb, like a leather bottle in the house of a vender of spirits...
Page 124 - ... 12. The swift horse approaches the place of immolation, meditating with mind intent upon the gods ; the goat bound to him is led before him ; after him follow the priests and the singers.
Page 32 - Soma juice, that has been expressed by the stones, and sprinkled with the sacred grass, as a thirsty ox or a thirsty man hastens to a well." (Drink) for thy exhilaration, for thy invigoration, for thy exceedingly great augmentation : let thy horses bring thee hither, as his steeds convey the sun; as they carry him (through heaven) day by day.
Page 127 - Who has seen the primeval (being) at the time of his being born : what is that endowed with substance which the unsubstantial sustains : from earth are the breath and blood, but where is the soul : who may repair to the sage to ask this ? 5.
Page 138 - He who has made (this state of things) does not comprehend it : he who has beheld it, has it also verily hidden (from him) : he, whilst yet enveloped in his mother's womb, is subject to many births, and has entered upon evil.
Page 235 - He who as soon as born is the first of the deities, who has done honor to the gods by his deeds; he at whose might heaven and earth are alarmed and who is known by the greatness of his strength; he, men, is Indra. " He who fixed firm the moving earth, who spread the spacious firmament; he, men, is Indra.
Page 125 - Although more mystical than the preceding hymn, especially in regard to the intimations of the identity of the horse with the sun, there is nothing in it incompatible with the more explicit description in the former Sukta of the actual sacrifice of a horse.
Page 116 - May the halter and the heel -ropes of the fleet courser, and the head-ropes., the girths, and any other (part of the harness) ; and the grass that has been put into his mouth ; may all these be with thee, (horse), amongst the gods. 9. Whatever the flies may eat of the raw flesh of the horse ; whatever (grease) is smeared upon the brush or upon the axe ; (what is smeared) upon the hands or the nails of the immolator, may all this be with thee, (horse), among the gods. 10. Whatever undigested grass...
Page 218 - ... 6. In regard of our good deeds, Day and Night, perpetually reverenced, are interweaving in concert, like two famous female weavers,* the extended thread, (to complete) the web of the sacrifice, liberal yielders (of rewards), containers of water.