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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... interpretation of this very able scholiast been ques- tioned , and where his assistance even has failed to remove all uncertainty , the passage has been ordi- narily cited in the annotations , to enable the student to form an ...
... interpretation of this very able scholiast been ques- tioned , and where his assistance even has failed to remove all uncertainty , the passage has been ordi- narily cited in the annotations , to enable the student to form an ...
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... interpretation , but this assumes that they have always been employed with precision and uniformity by the original ... interpretations given us by the most distin- guished native scholars , availing themselves of all the Vaidik learning ...
... interpretation , but this assumes that they have always been employed with precision and uniformity by the original ... interpretations given us by the most distin- guished native scholars , availing themselves of all the Vaidik learning ...
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... may not always require extraordinary ingenuity to hit upon what is intended by such elliptical ex- pressions from correlative terms or context ; but such a mode of interpretation by European scholars , whose xxii INTRODUCTION .
... may not always require extraordinary ingenuity to hit upon what is intended by such elliptical ex- pressions from correlative terms or context ; but such a mode of interpretation by European scholars , whose xxii INTRODUCTION .
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... interpretation by European scholars , whose ordinary train of thinking runs in a very different channel from that of Indian scholarship , can scarcely claim equal authority with the latter : it may be happier ; it may be more rational ...
... interpretation by European scholars , whose ordinary train of thinking runs in a very different channel from that of Indian scholarship , can scarcely claim equal authority with the latter : it may be happier ; it may be more rational ...
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... interpretation given by different translators of an easy passage , -it forms the burden of several Súktas ( p . 236 , v . 11 ) : " Grant , AGNI , to the offerer of the oblation , the earth , the bestower of cattle , the ( means ) of ...
... interpretation given by different translators of an easy passage , -it forms the burden of several Súktas ( p . 236 , v . 11 ) : " Grant , AGNI , to the offerer of the oblation , the earth , the bestower of cattle , the ( means ) of ...
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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.