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Page vi
... Ancient India . The full harvest The work is no doubt very defective . of Sanskrit learning has not yet been gathered in , but the knowledge which has been stored by former labourers ought to be made readily available for the service of ...
... Ancient India . The full harvest The work is no doubt very defective . of Sanskrit learning has not yet been gathered in , but the knowledge which has been stored by former labourers ought to be made readily available for the service of ...
Page ix
... ancient hymns cover a long period , the length and the era of which can only be conjectured , but fifteen hundred years before Christ is about the mean of the various ages assigned to them . The hymns form what is called the Rig - veda ...
... ancient hymns cover a long period , the length and the era of which can only be conjectured , but fifteen hundred years before Christ is about the mean of the various ages assigned to them . The hymns form what is called the Rig - veda ...
Page x
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page xi
... ancient , ritual developed and theological inquiry awoke . Then arose what is called the Brah- mana portion of the Veda . This consists of a variety of com- positions , chiefly in prose , and attached to the different Mantras . Ritual ...
... ancient , ritual developed and theological inquiry awoke . Then arose what is called the Brah- mana portion of the Veda . This consists of a variety of com- positions , chiefly in prose , and attached to the different Mantras . Ritual ...
Page xv
... ancient hymns of the Rig - veda are the basis upon which comparative mythology rests , and they have already sup- plied the means of unfolding the real source and signification of several Greek and Zoroastrian myths . The science is ...
... ancient hymns of the Rig - veda are the basis upon which comparative mythology rests , and they have already sup- plied the means of unfolding the real source and signification of several Greek and Zoroastrian myths . The science is ...
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According Aditi Adityas Agastya Agni Arjuna Asuras Aswins Avatāra Bala-rāma became Bhāgavata Bharata Bhima Bhishma Bhrigu Bibliotheca Indica birth born Brahman Brihaspati brother called celebrated character chariot curse Daitya Daksha Dasa-ratha daughter of Daksha deity demon descended Dhrita-rashtra divine drama Draupadi Drona Dur-yodhana Durgā Dwārakā earth father female fire forest Gandharvas Ganges gave goddess gods Hari-vansa heaven Hindu horse husband hymns incarnation India Indra Kāma Kāsī Kasyapa Kauravas killed king Krishna Kshatriya Kuvera Lakshmana legend Linga lord Lunar race Mahā-bhārata Manu married Meru mother mountain Nala nymph ocean Pandavas Pandu Parasu-rāma personified Pitris poem Prajapati priest princes Rāja Rakshasa Rāma Rāmāyana Rāvana represented Rig-veda Rishi river Rudra sacrifice sage Sanhita Sanskrit Satapatha Brahmana says serpent seven Sītā Siva Solar race Soma sons sprang story told translated Upanishad Varuna Vasishtha Vayu Vedas Vedic verses Vishnu Purāna Viswamitra wife worship Yadavas Yama Yudhi-shthira