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... celebrated in these poems so fervently as to raise the heroes to the rank of gods . The ninth Avatāra , Buddha , is manifestly and avowedly the offspring of the preaching of Buddha ; and the tenth , Kalki , is yet to come . When we ...
... celebrated in these poems so fervently as to raise the heroes to the rank of gods . The ninth Avatāra , Buddha , is manifestly and avowedly the offspring of the preaching of Buddha ; and the tenth , Kalki , is yet to come . When we ...
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... celebrated personage in Hindu story . He and Vasishtha are said in the Rig - veda to be the offspring of Mitra and Varuna , whose seed fell from them at the sight of Urvasi ; and the commentator Sāyana adds that Agastya was born in a ...
... celebrated personage in Hindu story . He and Vasishtha are said in the Rig - veda to be the offspring of Mitra and Varuna , whose seed fell from them at the sight of Urvasi ; and the commentator Sāyana adds that Agastya was born in a ...
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... celebrated hymn of the Rig - veda attributed to Vasishtha , Indra and other gods are called upon to destroy the Kravyāds ' the flesh - eaters , ' or Rakshas enemies of the gods . Agni himself is also a Kravyād , and as such he takes an ...
... celebrated hymn of the Rig - veda attributed to Vasishtha , Indra and other gods are called upon to destroy the Kravyāds ' the flesh - eaters , ' or Rakshas enemies of the gods . Agni himself is also a Kravyād , and as such he takes an ...
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... celebrated vocabularies of the classical Sanskrit . " It has been the subject of a great number of com- mentaries . The text has been often printed . There is an edition published in India with an English interpretation and annotations ...
... celebrated vocabularies of the classical Sanskrit . " It has been the subject of a great number of com- mentaries . The text has been often printed . There is an edition published in India with an English interpretation and annotations ...
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... celebrated family of Andhaka - Vrishnis . 3. The name was borne by many others of less note . ANDHRA , ANDHRA . 6 Name of a country and people in the south of India , the country of Telingana . It was the seat of a powerful dynasty ...
... celebrated family of Andhaka - Vrishnis . 3. The name was borne by many others of less note . ANDHRA , ANDHRA . 6 Name of a country and people in the south of India , the country of Telingana . It was the seat of a powerful dynasty ...
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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.