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... says , ' In this little book are outlines - pencil sketches , I might say - nothing more . ' But there are some men whose sketches from a thumb - nail are of far more worth than an enormous canvas covered with the crude painting of ...
... says , ' In this little book are outlines - pencil sketches , I might say - nothing more . ' But there are some men whose sketches from a thumb - nail are of far more worth than an enormous canvas covered with the crude painting of ...
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... says Max Müller , " 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 ...
... says Max Müller , " 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 ...
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... says that Agastya saw his ancestors suspended by their heels in a pit , and was told by them that they could be rescued only by his begetting a son . Thereupon he formed a girl out of the most graceful parts of different animals and ...
... says that Agastya saw his ancestors suspended by their heels in a pit , and was told by them that they could be rescued only by his begetting a son . Thereupon he formed a girl out of the most graceful parts of different animals and ...
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... says Dr. Caldwell , who thinks " we shall not greatly err in placing the era of Agastya in the seventh , or at least in the sixth cen- tury B.C. " Wilson also had previously testified to the same effect : " The traditions of the south ...
... says Dr. Caldwell , who thinks " we shall not greatly err in placing the era of Agastya in the seventh , or at least in the sixth cen- tury B.C. " Wilson also had previously testified to the same effect : " The traditions of the south ...
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... says is a northern nation . The Hari - vansa , how- ever , mentions it as " a country conquered by Parasu - rāma from the ocean , " and upon this the translator Langlois observes : " Tradition records that Parasu - rama besought Varuna ...
... says is a northern nation . The Hari - vansa , how- ever , mentions it as " a country conquered by Parasu - rāma from the ocean , " and upon this the translator Langlois observes : " Tradition records that Parasu - rama besought Varuna ...
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According Aditi Adityas Agni Arjuna Asuras Aswins Avatara Bala-rāma became Bhagavata 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 Devi Dhrita-rashtra divine drama Draupadi Drona Dur-yodhana earth edited father female fire forest Gandharvas Ganges gave goddess gods Hari-vansa heaven Hindu horse husband hymns incarnation India Indra Kasyapa Kauravas killed king Krishna Kshatriya Kuvera Lakshmana legend Linga lord Lunar race Maha-bharata Manu Meru mother mountain Nala nymph ocean Pandavas Pandu Parasu-rāma personified Pitris poem Post 8vo Prajapati priest princes Raja Rakshasa Rāma Rama's Rāmāyana Ravana represented Rig-veda Rishi river Rudra sacrifice sage Sanhita Sanskrit Saraswati Satapatha Brahmana says serpent seven Sītā Siva Solar race Soma sons sprang story Sutras told translated Upanishad Varuna Vasishtha Vayu Vedas Vedic verses Vishnu Purana Viswamitra Vyasa wife worship Yadavas Yama Yudhi-shthira