 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 468 pages
...Brahma the forefather of spirits. " The waters are called Nara because they are the production of Nara, the spirit of God, and since they were his first Ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or moving on the waters. In the egg Brahma remained a year, and caused the egg to divide,... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 472 pages
...Brahma the forefather of spirits. "The waters are called Nara because they are the production of Nara, the spirit of God, and since they were his first Ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or moving on the waters. In the egg Brahma remained a year, and caused the egg to divide,... | |
 | Abraham Fornander - 1878 - 274 pages
...produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought he created the waters; ' the waters are called ndrd, because they were the...thence is named Ndrdyana, or moving on the waters.' .... The Hindu legislator proceeds to tell, that the selfexisting power placed a productive seed in... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1878 - 422 pages
...his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters. The waters are so called (nara) because they were the production of Nara, or the Spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayand, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or Moving on the Waters. From that which is... | |
 | Halsey R. Stevens - 1879 - 468 pages
...himself, in the form of Brahma, the great forefather of all spirits." " The waters are called Nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God ; and hence they were his first ayana, or place of motion; he, hence, is named Nara yana, or moving of the... | |
 | Aaron Walker - 1880 - 506 pages
...BOEN HIMSELF IN THE FORM OF BRAHMA THE GREAT FOREFATHER OF ALL SPIRITS. The waters were called nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit...first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Nayrayana, or moving on the waters. From that which is, the first cause, not the object of sense, existing... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, DeRobingne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - 876 pages
...forefather of all spirits. The waters were called naro, because they were the production of narau, the spirit of God, and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he is thence named Narayana, or, moving in the waters. In. the egg the great power sat inactive a whole... | |
 | George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - 1880 - 318 pages
...waters were called nara, because they were produced by Nara, the " Spirit of God " moving on them, and since they were his first ayana or " place of motion," he is hence called Narayana, or " moving on the waters." That the human race might be created he caused... | |
 | Henry Coke - 1883 - 328 pages
...thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed:" (10.) " The waters are called nara, because they were the production of NARA [or the Spirit of God] ; and since they were his first ayana [place of motion], he thence is named NAEA-YANA, [or moving on the waters]." (n.) "From THAT WHICH... | |
 | George Clifford Whitworth, Whitworth, George Clifford, d. 1917 - 1885 - 410 pages
...Doms ; animals are offered up to him. Harayana. [Sanskrit.] The divine spirit moving on the waters. ' The waters are called ndrd, because they were the...thence is named Ndrdyana, or moving on the waters' (Manu, i. 10). After the notion of trimurti or the Hindu triad was formed, Vishnu was sometimes identified... | |
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The waters are called nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or moving on the waters. 
