Hindu Chronology and Antediluvian HistoryHatchards, 1880 - 59 pages |
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30 Mahurtas Abydenus Adam Alexander Polyhistor Amrita antediluvian ANTEDILUVIAN HISTORY antediluvian world Apollodorus Asiatic assuming the body Atri Atri Cain Avatar Berosus Bible Brahmins Buddha Cainan Cala Calci Avatar Cali age Cali jug Cambridge Cash'ta Cesava Chaldean chinon Chiperons Crita Cronus day of Brahma Deluge divine age divine spirit doctrine Egyptians enigmas Enos explained figures fish Avatar Flood Fo-hi four ages Heri Hindu Chronology Hindu history incarnate Jared Jayadeva Jones's Key to Hindu Lamech learned Lord Lunar line Lunar race Magadha Mahalaleel Manetho mankind matires Maurice Maya Enoch Menwantara Methuselah multiplied Narayana Old Chronicle Parasa Rama patriarchs prophecies prophet pundits Puranas race of Atri race of Seth Rama Chandra reign Rhadacant Sadrijugans samans Sanchoniatho second age seven days Shasters Solar line Solar race Soors Swariochesha Swayambuva Table third age thou tion Trita Trita age twilight Universe Vedas Venidiques whole day
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Page 43 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun,* the god-head** who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we evoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress toward his holy seat.
Page 27 - And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood •were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 10 - The aggregate of the four first ages constitutes the extravagant sum of four million three hundred and twenty thousand years: which aggregate multiplied by seventy-one is the period, in which every Menu is believed to preside over the world. Such a period one might conceive would have satisfied Archytas, the measurer of the sea and earth, and the numberer of the sands ; or Archimedes, who invented a notation that was capable of expressing the number of them. But the comprehensive mind of an Indian...
Page 10 - ... by seventy-one is the period in which every Menu is believed to preside over the world. Such a period one might conceive would have satisfied Archytas, the measurer of the sea and earth, and the numberer of the sands ; or Archimedes, who invented a notation that was capable of expressing the number of them ; but the comprehensive mind of an Indian chronologer has no limits, and the reigns of fourteen Menus, are only a single day of Brahma ; fifty of which days have already elapsed, according...
Page 3 - Letters, in which an attempt is made to facilitate the Progress of Christianity in Hindostan...
Page 38 - By thy power thou beguilest Bali, O thou miraculous dwarf, thou purifier of men with the water (of Ganga) springing from thy feet, O Cesava, assuming the form of a dwarf. Be victorious, O Heri, Lord of the Universe.
Page 8 - ... will now follow step by step, mentioned this ridiculous opinion with a serious face ; but, as he has not inserted it in his work, we may take his account of the seventh Menu according to its obvious and rational meaning, and suppose, that VAIVASWATA, the son of SURYA, the son of CASYAPA, or URANUS, the son of MARICHI, or light, the son of BRAHMA, which is clearly...
Page 26 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 8 - ... eight hundred years of the Gods ; and this opinion is another monfter fo repugnant to the courfe of nature and to human reafon, that it muft be rejected as wholly fabulous, and taken as a proof that the Indians know nothing of their Sun-born MENU, but his name and the principal event of his life ; I mean the...
Page 8 - Menu, yet, thinking it incongruous to place a holy personage in times of impurity, they insist that the Menu reigns only in every golden age, and disappears in the three human ages that follow it, continuing to dive and emerge like a water-fowl, till the close of his Manwantara.