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... poems of India from the most ancient literature of Greece more clearly felt than when we compare the growing myths ... poetic faculty . They had no one god in particular , no superior deity guiding and controlling the rest , but they ...
... poems of India from the most ancient literature of Greece more clearly felt than when we compare the growing myths ... poetic faculty . They had no one god in particular , no superior deity guiding and controlling the rest , but they ...
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John Dowson. INTRODUCTION . xi delight and kindled the poetic fire . So each of the deities in turn received his meed of praise , and each in his turn was the powerful god , able to accomplish the desires of his votary or to excite a ...
John Dowson. INTRODUCTION . xi delight and kindled the poetic fire . So each of the deities in turn received his meed of praise , and each in his turn was the powerful god , able to accomplish the desires of his votary or to excite a ...
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... poems of the heroic age , and though they are full of marvels , they deal more with the actions of mortal men and romantic creations than the might and majesty of the gods . The old deities of the Vedas have retired into the background ...
... poems of the heroic age , and though they are full of marvels , they deal more with the actions of mortal men and romantic creations than the might and majesty of the gods . The old deities of the Vedas have retired into the background ...
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... poems ; and although Vishnu is the god who holds the most prominent place , still there are many passages in which Siva is elevated to the supreme dignity . The Vishnu who , in the Vedas , was the friend and companion of Indra and ...
... poems ; and although Vishnu is the god who holds the most prominent place , still there are many passages in which Siva is elevated to the supreme dignity . The Vishnu who , in the Vedas , was the friend and companion of Indra and ...
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... poems also exercise a great influence . The heroes of these poems are heroes still ; their exploits , with many embellishments and sectarial additions , are recounted in prose and verse , and the tales of Rama and the Pandavas , of ...
... poems also exercise a great influence . The heroes of these poems are heroes still ; their exploits , with many embellishments and sectarial additions , are recounted in prose and verse , and the tales of Rama and the Pandavas , of ...
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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.