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... sacrifices . " Agni is repre- sented as having seven tongues , each of which has a distinct name , for licking up the butter used in sacrifices . He is guardian of the south - east quarter , being one of the eight loka- palas ( q.v. ) ...
... sacrifices . " Agni is repre- sented as having seven tongues , each of which has a distinct name , for licking up the butter used in sacrifices . He is guardian of the south - east quarter , being one of the eight loka- palas ( q.v. ) ...
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... sacrifice . AJITA . ' Unconquered . ' A title given to Vishnu , Siva , and many others . There were classes of gods bearing this name in several Manwantaras . AKRŪRA . A Yadava and uncle of Krishna . He was son of Swa - phalka and ...
... sacrifice . AJITA . ' Unconquered . ' A title given to Vishnu , Siva , and many others . There were classes of gods bearing this name in several Manwantaras . AKRŪRA . A Yadava and uncle of Krishna . He was son of Swa - phalka and ...
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... sacrifice , but more especially to the Soma juice . It is also called Nir - jara and Piyusha . In later times it was the water of life produced at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons , the legend of which is told with some ...
... sacrifice , but more especially to the Soma juice . It is also called Nir - jara and Piyusha . In later times it was the water of life produced at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons , the legend of which is told with some ...
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... sacrifice . " There is much ambiguity about the name . It comes from the same root as agni , ' fire , ' and resembles that word in sound . This may be the reason why the name Angiras is used as an epithet or synonyme of Agni . The name ...
... sacrifice . " There is much ambiguity about the name . It comes from the same root as agni , ' fire , ' and resembles that word in sound . This may be the reason why the name Angiras is used as an epithet or synonyme of Agni . The name ...
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... sacrifices performed in accordance with the Atharva - veda . From this cause , or from their being associated with the ... sacrifice , and he discovered the remains of that king's sixty thousand sons , who had been killed by the fire of ...
... sacrifices performed in accordance with the Atharva - veda . From this cause , or from their being associated with the ... sacrifice , and he discovered the remains of that king's sixty thousand sons , who had been killed by the fire 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.