Ṛig-Veda-sanhitá: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1866 - 348 pages |
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... rendering of the text , and that he has diverged from its phraseology , especially as interpreted by the native Scholiast , more widely than is advisable . The real value of the original lies not so much in its merits as a literary ...
... rendering of the text , and that he has diverged from its phraseology , especially as interpreted by the native Scholiast , more widely than is advisable . The real value of the original lies not so much in its merits as a literary ...
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... render the written text of the Vedas still unintelligible , in many passages , without the assistance of the Scholiast , and which he is alone enabled to fill up by the greater or less fidelity with which the traditional explanations of ...
... render the written text of the Vedas still unintelligible , in many passages , without the assistance of the Scholiast , and which he is alone enabled to fill up by the greater or less fidelity with which the traditional explanations of ...
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... rendered probable from the peculiar expression used , on more than one occasion , in soliciting long life , - when the worshipper asks for a hundred winters ( himas ) ; a boon not likely to have been desired by the natives of a warm ...
... rendered probable from the peculiar expression used , on more than one occasion , in soliciting long life , - when the worshipper asks for a hundred winters ( himas ) ; a boon not likely to have been desired by the natives of a warm ...
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... rendered them in Roman characters . I do not apprehend that any great inconvenience will be experienced from the use of these original designations , their conventional pur- port being readily remembered . I have , also , specified the ...
... rendered them in Roman characters . I do not apprehend that any great inconvenience will be experienced from the use of these original designations , their conventional pur- port being readily remembered . I have , also , specified the ...
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... rendered , liberal , donor ; the sense of giving being ascribed to the same radical . с Ritwij , a ministering priest , or , according to some , the Ritwij who is also the Hotri , -the term that follows in the text , - the priest who ...
... rendered , liberal , donor ; the sense of giving being ascribed to the same radical . с Ritwij , a ministering priest , or , according to some , the Ritwij who is also the Hotri , -the term that follows in the text , - the priest who ...
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according ADITI Adityas adoration AGNI ANGIRAS Angirasas ANUVÁKA ARYAMAN Asuras AśWINS battle bestow Bráhmaña Brahmans cattle ceremony chariot clarified butter cloud coursers cows Dasyus dawn deity desirous destroyer divine drink the Soma dwelling enemies epithet fire firmament foes giver gods GOTAMA heaven and earth Hindus hither horses Hymn is addressed hymns INDRA INDRA and AGNI invoke Jagati KANWA KUTSA Langlois legend libation light Manu MARUTS mean metre mighty MITRA NÁSATYAS night Nirukta oblations ocean offer pious acts prayer priests propitious protection protector Puráñas PÚSHAN radiant rain rays recited Ribhus riches Rig-Veda Rishi rite RUDRA sacred grass sacrifice sage Sáma Sanhitá SAVITRI Sáyaña Scholiast Scholiast explains Scholiast says shining showerers of benefits Soma juice stanzas steeds strength SÚKTA term thou art thou hast thunderbolt Trishtubh Twashtri USHAS Vaidik Varga VARUÑA Váyu Veda verily verse vigour Vishnu VISWADEVAS VRITRA waters wealth worship
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Page xxiii - Kusa, or sacred grass, strewed on the floor ; and in all cases the residue was drunk by the assistants. The ceremony takes place in the dwelling of the worshipper, in a chamber appropriated to the purpose and probably to the maintenance of a perpetual fire, although the frequent allusions to the occasional kindling of the sacred flame are rather at variance with this practice.
Page 17 - INDRA,—whether he come from verted to, of the Asuras named Panis having stolen the cows of the gods, or, according to some versions, of the Angirasas, and hidden them in a cave, where they were discovered by Indra, with the help of the bitch Saramd.
Page xxv - R'ibhus, elevated for their piety to the rank of divinities. Protection against evil spirits (Rdkshasas) is also requested, and in one or two passages Yama and his office, as ruler of the dead, are obscurely alluded to. There is little demand for moral benefactions...
Page xxvi - SIVA,— the wearing of his hair in a peculiar braid: but the term has, probably, in the Veda, a different signification, —one now forgotten,—although it may have suggested, in after time, the appearance of S'IVA, in such a headdress, as identified with AGNI.
Page xxv - There is little demand for moral benefactions, although in some few instances hatred of untruth and abhorrence of sin are expressed, a hope is uttered that the latter may be repented of or expiated, and the gods are in one hymn solicited to extricate the worshipper from sin of every kind. The main objects of the prayers, however, are benefits of a more worldly and physical character : the tone in which these are requested indicates a quiet confidence in their being granted, as a return for the benefits...
Page 281 - Let no father, who knows the law, receive a gratuity, however small, for giving his daughter in marriage ; since the man who, through avarice, takes a gratuity for that purpose, is a seller of his offspring.
Page 214 - Slayer of VRITRA, ascend thy chariot, for thy horses have been yoked by prayer; may the stone (that bruises the Soma) attract, by its sound, thy mind towards us. 4. Drink, INDRA, this excellent, immortal, exhilarating libation, the drops of which pellucid (beverage) flow towards thee in the chamber of sacrifice. 5. Offer worship quickly to INDRA; recite hymns (in his praise); let the effused drops exhilarate him; pay adoration to his superior strength.
Page 307 - Three nights and three days, NASATYAS, have you conveyed BHUJYU, in three rapid, revolving cars, having a hundred wheels, and drawn by six horses," along the dry bed of the ocean, to the shore of the sea.
Page 128 - Aurora : the metre is the same as in the preceding. in. 1. USHAS, daughter of heaven, dawn upon us with riches: diffuser of light, dawn upon us with abundant food: bountiful goddess, dawn upon us with wealth (of cattle). 2. Abounding with horses, abounding with kine, bestowers of every sort of wealth/ (the divinities of morning) are possessed of much that is necessary for the habitations (of men): USHAS, speak to me kind words : send us the affluence of the wealthy. 3. The divine USHAS has dwelt...
Page 71 - The stone, or, rather, here, perhaps, the stone pestle, is that which is used to bruise the Soma plants, and so express the juice. The pestle employed in bruising or threshing grain is, usually, of heavy wood. for containing the juice,—as (broad as a woman's) hips,—are employed, recognize and partake of the effusions of the mortar.