 | American Oriental Society - Electronic journals - 1853 - 584 pages
...is paid them that exalts the oiferer of it ; the demons, embraced under the general name Raksiias, are objects of horror, whom the gods ward off and...powers whose wrath is to be deprecated, and whose favor curried for: it knows a whole host of imps and hobgoblins, in ranks and classes, and addresses... | |
 | John Garrett - Hinduism - 1871 - 814 pages
...is paid them that exalts the offerer of it ; the demons, embraced under the general name Rdkshasas, are objects of horror, whom the gods ward off and destroy ; the divinities of the Atharva ore regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated and whose... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Language and languages - 1872 - 442 pages
...rakshas, are objects of horror, whom the gods ward off and destroy ; the divinities of the Atharvan are regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear,...powers whose wrath is to be deprecated, and whose favor curried for. It knows a whole host of imps and hobgoblins, in ranks and classes, and addresses... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Civilization, Oriental - 1873 - 466 pages
...worship is paid them that exalts the offerer of it ; the demons, embraced under the general name rakshas, are objects of horror, whom the gods ward off and destroy ; the divinities of the Atharvan are regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated,... | |
 | Brahma-samaj - 1889 - 854 pages
...awe indeed, but with love and confidence also ; the demons, embraced tinder the general name rakshas, are objects of horror whom the gods ward off and destroy : the divinities of the Atharvan are regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated,... | |
 | William Ridgeway - Dance - 1915 - 476 pages
...is paid them that exalts the offerer of it. The demons embraced under the general name of Rakshasa are objects of horror, whom the gods ward off and...destroy : the divinities of the Atharva are regarded with a kind of cringing fear as ogres whose wrath is to be deprecated and whose favour curried, for... | |
 | Religion - 2003 - 172 pages
...awe indeed, but with love and confidence also ; the demons, embraced under the general name rakshas, are objects of horror whom the gods ward off and destroy : the divinities of the Atharvan are regarded rather with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated,... | |
 | American Oriental Society - Electronic journals - 1853 - 576 pages
...is paid them that exalts the offerer of it ; the demons, embraced under the general name Rakslias, are objects of horror, whom the gods ward off and...powers whose wrath is to be deprecated, and whose favor curried for: it knows a whole host of imps and hobgoblins, in ranks and classes, and addresses... | |
 | Om Prakash - India - 2005 - 660 pages
...world is full of shapeless ghosts and spirits of death. The divinities of the Atharvaveda are regarded with a kind of cringing fear, as powers whose wrath is to be deprecated and whose favour curried. The creed of the common people continued to be simple and consisted, in addition to more primitive... | |
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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... 