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Page xi
... Vayu ( the Wind ) or to Indra ( god of the sky ) . Towards the end of the Rig - veda Sanhitā , in the hymns of the latest date , the idea of one Supreme Being assumed a more definite shape , and the Hindu mind was per- ceiving , even if ...
... Vayu ( the Wind ) or to Indra ( god of the sky ) . Towards the end of the Rig - veda Sanhitā , in the hymns of the latest date , the idea of one Supreme Being assumed a more definite shape , and the Hindu mind was per- ceiving , even if ...
Page 7
... Vayu Purāna endeavours to discriminate . He is described in the Hari - vansa as clothed in black , having smoke for his stan- dard and head - piece , and carrying a flaming javelin . He has four hands , and is borne in a chariot drawn ...
... Vayu Purāna endeavours to discriminate . He is described in the Hari - vansa as clothed in black , having smoke for his stan- dard and head - piece , and carrying a flaming javelin . He has four hands , and is borne in a chariot drawn ...
Page 17
... Vayu . ANILAS . A gana or class of deities , forty - nine in number , connected with Anila , the wind . ANIMISHA . ' Who does not wink . ' A general epithet of all gods . ANIRUDDHA . ' Uncontrolled . ' Son of Pradyumna and grandson of ...
... Vayu . ANILAS . A gana or class of deities , forty - nine in number , connected with Anila , the wind . ANIMISHA . ' Who does not wink . ' A general epithet of all gods . ANIRUDDHA . ' Uncontrolled . ' Son of Pradyumna and grandson of ...
Page 18
... Vayu Purana reads the name as Aparita , which Wilson says is a northern nation . The Hari - vansa , how- ever , mentions it as " a country conquered by Parasu - rāma from the ocean , " and upon this the translator Langlois observes ...
... Vayu Purana reads the name as Aparita , which Wilson says is a northern nation . The Hari - vansa , how- ever , mentions it as " a country conquered by Parasu - rāma from the ocean , " and upon this the translator Langlois observes ...
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... Vayu Purāna enumerates fourteen , the Hari - vansa seven classes . They are again distinguished as being daivika , ' divine , ' or laukika , ' worldly . ' The former are said to be ten in number and the latter thirty - four , and these ...
... Vayu Purāna enumerates fourteen , the Hari - vansa seven classes . They are again distinguished as being daivika , ' divine , ' or laukika , ' worldly . ' The former are said to be ten in number and the latter thirty - four , and these ...
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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.