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Page xiii
... incarnations of Vishnu assume a prominent place in the poems , and still more so in the Purānas . The first three , the Fish , the Tortoise , and the Boar , have a cosmical cha- racter , and are foreshadowed in the hymns of the Vedas ...
... incarnations of Vishnu assume a prominent place in the poems , and still more so in the Purānas . The first three , the Fish , the Tortoise , and the Boar , have a cosmical cha- racter , and are foreshadowed in the hymns of the Vedas ...
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... incarnation ( wherefore he is sometimes called Aditya ) , and also of Indra , and she is called " the mother of the gods " and " the mother of the world . " Indra acknowledged her as mother , and Vishnu , after receiving the adoration ...
... incarnation ( wherefore he is sometimes called Aditya ) , and also of Indra , and she is called " the mother of the gods " and " the mother of the world . " Indra acknowledged her as mother , and Vishnu , after receiving the adoration ...
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... incarnation of a deity , espe- cially of Vishnu . The first indication , not of an Avatāra , but of what subsequently developed into an Avatāra , is found in the Rig - veda in the " three steps " of " Vishnu , the unconquer- able ...
... incarnation of a deity , espe- cially of Vishnu . The first indication , not of an Avatāra , but of what subsequently developed into an Avatāra , is found in the Rig - veda in the " three steps " of " Vishnu , the unconquer- able ...
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... incarnation of Vamana the dwarf , to be presently noticed . Another reference to " three strides " and to a sort of Avatara is made in the Taittirīya Sanhita , where it is said , “ Indra , assuming the form of a she - jackal , stepped ...
... incarnation of Vamana the dwarf , to be presently noticed . Another reference to " three strides " and to a sort of Avatara is made in the Taittirīya Sanhita , where it is said , “ Indra , assuming the form of a she - jackal , stepped ...
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... incarnations of the boar , the tortoise , and the fish are thus in the earlier writings represented as manifestations of Prajapati or Brahma . The " three steps " which form the germ of the dwarf incarnation are ascribed to Vishnu , but ...
... incarnations of the boar , the tortoise , and the fish are thus in the earlier writings represented as manifestations of Prajapati or Brahma . The " three steps " which form the germ of the dwarf incarnation are ascribed to Vishnu , but ...
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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.