Let him depart to those for whom flow the rivers of nectar. Let him depart to those who, through meditation, have obtained the victory ; who, by fixing their thoughts on the unseen, have gone to heaven. Let him depart to the mighty in battle, to the heroes... The Imperial Gazetteer of India - Page 82by William Wilson Hunter - 1886Full view - About this book
| William Wilson Hunter - 1868 - 500 pages
...shining form. Go ye ; depart ye ; hasten ye from hence.'" The responses might then fitly come in : ' Let him depart to those for whom flow the rivers of...others, to those who have bestowed their goods on the poor.'53 Returning to the direct form of address : ' May sweet breezes blow upon thee. May the water-shedding... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - 1869 - 388 pages
...shining form. Go ye ; depart ye; hasten ye from hence. "J The responses might then fitly come in: "Lot him depart to those for whom flow the rivers of nectar....those who have bestowed their goods on the poor."§ Returning to the direct form of address : " May sweet breezes blow upon thee. May the water-shedding... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - 1869 - 382 pages
...by fixing their thoughts on the unseen, have gone to heaven. . . . Let him depart to the mighty iu battle, to the heroes who have laid down their lives...those who have bestowed their goods on the poor."§ Returning to the direct form of address : * ' May sweet breezes blow upon thee. liny the water-shedding... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1873 - 834 pages
...fathers watch thy grave, and Yama give thee a home." 1 " Let him depart," it is sometimes added, " to the mighty in battle ; to the heroes who have laid...others, to those who have bestowed their goods on the poor."2 "Wash the feet of him who is stained with sin,"' says the Atharva ; " let him go upward with... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 238 pages
...monuments, the Aryan — alike in India, in Greece, and in Italy — made use of the funeral-pile. Several exquisite hymns bid farewell to the dead :...loved ones who had gone before. ' Do thou conduct us to heaven,' says a hymn of the later Atharva-Veda ; ' let us be with our wives and children.' '... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 580 pages
...gone to heaven. Let him depart to the mighty in battle, to the heroes who have laid down their '.ives for others, to those who have bestowed their goods...went direct to a state of blessedness and reunion Vedic with the loved ones who had gone before. ' Do thou conduct concep- us to heaven,' says a hymn... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1884 - 246 pages
...alike in India, in Greece, and in Italy — made use of the funeral-pile. Several exquisite Sanskrit hymns bid farewell to the dead : — ' Depart thou,...loved ones who had gone before. ' Do thou conduct us to heaven,' says a hymn of the later Atharva-Veda ; ' let us be with pur wives and children.' '... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1894 - 430 pages
...the desires of our desire are attained, there make me immortal." 3 " Let him depart," says another, " to the heroes who have laid down their lives for others, — to those who have bestowed their gifts on the poor." And in the later Brahmanic scripture, the " Vishnu Purana," we read, "He who speaks... | |
| Sir William Wilson Hunter - 1895 - 270 pages
...funeral-pile. Several exquisite Sanskrit hymns bid farewell to the dead : — ' Depart thou, depart thou bj' the ancient paths to the place whither our fathers...goods on the poor.' The doctrine of transmigration was at first unknown. The circle round the funeral-pile sang with a firm assurance that their friend went... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1897 - 268 pages
...alike in India, in Greece, and in Italy — made use of the funeral-pile. Several exquisite Sanskrit hymns bid farewell to the dead : — ' Depart thou,...goods on the poor.' The doctrine of transmigration was at fin unknown. The circle round the funeral-pile sang with a firm assurance that their friend went... | |
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