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... gave personali- ties , which they invested with poetical clothing and attributes . Thus observant of nature in its various changes and operations , alive to its influences upon themselves , and perceptive of its beauties , they formed ...
... gave personali- ties , which they invested with poetical clothing and attributes . Thus observant of nature in its various changes and operations , alive to its influences upon themselves , and perceptive of its beauties , they formed ...
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... gave them birth were no longer remem- bered and understood . The priestly order had advanced in power , and had taken a more prominent and important position , but the Kshatriya or second class held a high place , and asserted something ...
... gave them birth were no longer remem- bered and understood . The priestly order had advanced in power , and had taken a more prominent and important position , but the Kshatriya or second class held a high place , and asserted something ...
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... gave to Aditi , and several of the Puranas tell a story of these ear - rings being stolen and carried off to the city of Prag - jyotisha by the Asura king Naraka , from whence they were brought back and restored to her by Krishna ...
... gave to Aditi , and several of the Puranas tell a story of these ear - rings being stolen and carried off to the city of Prag - jyotisha by the Asura king Naraka , from whence they were brought back and restored to her by Krishna ...
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... gave him the bow of Vishnu ; and when Rama was restored to his kingdom , the sage accompanied him to Ayodhya . The name of Agastya holds a great place also in Tamil litera- ture , and he is " venerated in the south as the first teacher ...
... gave him the bow of Vishnu ; and when Rama was restored to his kingdom , the sage accompanied him to Ayodhya . The name of Agastya holds a great place also in Tamil litera- ture , and he is " venerated in the south as the first teacher ...
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... gave her to Gautama . She was seduced by Indra , who had to suffer for his adultery . One version of the Rāmāyana represents her as knowing the god and being flattered by his condescension ; but another ver- sion states that the god ...
... gave her to Gautama . She was seduced by Indra , who had to suffer for his adultery . One version of the Rāmāyana represents her as knowing the god and being flattered by his condescension ; but another ver- sion states that the god ...
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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.