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Page 40
... Nala when he was transformed BAHVRICHA . The Krittikās or Pleiades . BALA - BHADRA . A priest or theologian of the Rig - veda . See Bala - rāma . BĀLA - GOPĀLA . The boy Krishna . BALA - RĀMA . ( Bala - bhadra and Bala - deva are other ...
... Nala when he was transformed BAHVRICHA . The Krittikās or Pleiades . BALA - BHADRA . A priest or theologian of the Rig - veda . See Bala - rāma . BĀLA - GOPĀLA . The boy Krishna . BALA - RĀMA . ( Bala - bhadra and Bala - deva are other ...
Page 79
... Nala and heroine of the tale of Nala and Damayantī . She is also known by her patronymic Bhaimi . See Nala . DAMBHODBHAVA . A king whose story is related in the Mahā - bhārata as an antidote to pride . He had an overweening conceit of ...
... Nala and heroine of the tale of Nala and Damayantī . She is also known by her patronymic Bhaimi . See Nala . DAMBHODBHAVA . A king whose story is related in the Mahā - bhārata as an antidote to pride . He had an overweening conceit of ...
Page 128
... Nala and Damayanti . INDU . The moon . See Soma . INDU - MATI . Sister of Bhoja , king of Vidarbha , who chose Prince Aja for her husband at her swayam - vara . She was killed by Narada's garland falling upon her while asleep in an ...
... Nala and Damayanti . INDU . The moon . See Soma . INDU - MATI . Sister of Bhoja , king of Vidarbha , who chose Prince Aja for her husband at her swayam - vara . She was killed by Narada's garland falling upon her while asleep in an ...
Page 174
... Nala - kubara or Mayu - rāja , and his daughter Minakshi ( fish - eyed ) . He is repre- sented as a white man deformed in body , and having three legs and only eight teeth . His body is covered with ornaments . He receives no worship ...
... Nala - kubara or Mayu - rāja , and his daughter Minakshi ( fish - eyed ) . He is repre- sented as a white man deformed in body , and having three legs and only eight teeth . His body is covered with ornaments . He receives no worship ...
Page 187
... nala ; Nakula was Jaya - sena and Granthika ; Saha - deva was Jayad - bala and Arishta - nemi , a Vaisya . The beauty of Draupadi attracted Kichaka , brother of the queen , and the chief man in the kingdom . He endeavoured to seduce her ...
... nala ; Nakula was Jaya - sena and Granthika ; Saha - deva was Jayad - bala and Arishta - nemi , a Vaisya . The beauty of Draupadi attracted Kichaka , brother of the queen , and the chief man in the kingdom . He endeavoured to seduce her ...
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According Aditi Agni Arjuna Asuras Aswins Avatāra Bala-rāma became Bhāgavata Bharata Bhima Bhishma Bhrigu Bibliotheca Indica birth born Brahman Brihaspati brother called celebrated chariot curse Daitya Daksha Dasa-ratha daughter of Daksha deity demon descended Dhrita-rashtra divine drama Draupadi Drona Dur-yodhana Durgā earth father female fire forest Gandharvas Ganges gave goddess gods Hari-vansa heaven Hindu horse husband hymns incarnation India Indra Karna Kāsī Kasyapa Kauravas killed king Krishna Kshatriya Kuvera Lakshmana legend Linga lord Lunar race Mahā-bhārata Manu Meru mother mountain Nala nymph ocean Pandavas Pandu Parasu-rāma personified Pitris poem Prajapati priest princes Purāna Rāja Rakshasas Rāma Rāmāyana Rāvana represented Rig-veda Rishi river Rudra sacrifice sage Sanhita Sanskrit Saraswati Satapatha Brahmana says serpent seven Sītā Siva Solar race Soma sons sprang story told translated Upanishad Varuna Vasishtha Vayu Vedas Vedic verses Vishnu Vishnu Purāna Viswamitra Vyasa wife worship Yadavas Yajnawalkya Yama Yudhi-shthira
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Page 142 - Willst du was reizt und entziickt, willst du was sattigt und nahrt, Willst du den Himmel, die Erde, mit Einem Namen begreifen; Nenn' ich, Sakontala, Dich, und so ist Alles gesagt.
Page x - Nowhere is the wide distance which separates the ancient poems of India from the most ancient literature of Greece more clearly felt than when we compare the growing myths of the Veda with the full-grown and decayed myths on which the poetry of Homer is founded. The Veda is the real Theogony of the Aryan races, while that of Hesiod is a distorted caricature of the original image.
Page 350 - Eakshasa are objects of horror whom the gods ward off and destroy ; the divinities of the Atharva are regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated and whose favour curried...
Page 107 - He is represented as a short fat man of a yellow colour, with a protuberant belly, four hands, and the head of an elephant, which has only one tusk. In...
Page 146 - Desire first arose in It, which was the primal germ of mind ; [and which] sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects entity with non-entity.