 | Kālidāsa - 1853 - 366 pages
...immediately adjacent to Kailusa, the paradise of Kuvera, the god of wealth, as it is hero deseribed as the mountain of the Kimpurushas, or servants of...monster, with the body of a man and the head of a herse, and aro otherwise called Kinnara : nswa-mukha, turanga-mukha. This mountain is also hero deseribed... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1853 - 200 pages
...CHAPTER XVI. — 1, " Minotaurum ;" Greek MMWJ, a king of Crete, and tavpof, a bull; the Minotaur was a monster, with the body of a man and the head of a bull, the offspring of Pasiphae, wife of Minos ; the Minotaur was shut up in a labyrinth, and fed on... | |
 | Kālidāsa - 1855 - 330 pages
...lying among the Himalaya chain, and apparently identical with, or immediately adjacent to Kaill,sa, the paradise of Kuvera the god of wealth. It is here...and the head of a horse, and are otherwise called Kinuara. i ' 4 Kns'Ial,a. Kasyapa was the son of Brahma's son, Marichi ; and was one of those Patriarehs... | |
 | Stephen Pearl Andrews - 1872 - 904 pages
...Bis'moo, or Vishnu, The Preserver, or the Presiding God over Providence or Human Affairs), is to appear with the body of a man, and the head of a horse. He is to be attended by a flying horse, and to hold swords eighteen feet long in each hand, with which... | |
 | Kālidāsa, Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1876 - 396 pages
...apparently identical with, or immediately adjacent to Kailasa, the paradise of Kuvera, the god of wealth, as it is here described as the mountain of the Kimpurushas,...head of a horse, and are otherwise called Kinnara (aiva-mukha, turangamukha). This mountain is also here described as ' the scene [place, field] of the... | |
 | Vālmīki - 1895 - 610 pages
...the margin of the deep. And grey rocks rose amid the red Of coral washed from ocean's bed. i Beings with the body of a man and the head of a horse. 1 Ajas, Marichipas, Vaikhanasas, Mashas, and Balakhilyas are classes of supernatural beings who lead... | |
 | John Percy Hardiman - 1900 - 696 pages
...by the bilus of the Byinnat hills, who stood in great dread of the athamok-ki, a species of centaur, with the body of a man and the head of a horse. A figure of an athamok-ki decorated the stern of the Paihon boat. For long the water of the Pun-sanlaing... | |
 | Gordon Jennings Laing - 1903 - 534 pages
...nine years seven boys and seven girls to Crete, to be devoured by the Minotaur. 2 Wife of Minos. 8 A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. * The Minotaur was kept in the labyrinth built by Daedalus. 6 Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who... | |
 | American Oriental Society - 1906 - 244 pages
...appendix. 'Celestial choristers and musicians, attendants on Kuvera, the god of wealth, and represented with the body of a man and the head of a horse. VIDUSAKA. It's pretty plain from Vicaksana's words that her heart has beeu given you before marriage... | |
 | William Edward Frye - 1908 - 452 pages
...act of kissing his hand as if to thank him for his deliverance; the Minotaur is here represented as a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull); a Centaur carrying off a nymph; a car 262 drawn by a parrot and driven by a cricket : a woman... | |
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The result of their union was the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, whom the king shut up in the labyrinth... 
