 | Friedrich Max Müller - Brahman - 1860 - 640 pages
...by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time,...the rest disappear for a moment from the vision of 1 Visve Devah, though treated as a plural, has sometimes the meaning of a pluralis majestaticus. See... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - History - 1860 - 648 pages
...hffl1 * by the power of others, as superior or inferior rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time,...real divinity — as supreme and absolute, in spite o necessary limitations which, to our mind, a p'ur * of gods must entail on every single god. A1 rest... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - India - 1867 - 682 pages
...of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as nil the gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity—...All the rest disappear for a moment from the vision HISTORY OP called the ruler of the universe, the lord of men, the i. wise king, the father, the brother,... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - India - 1867 - 668 pages
...by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity—as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which, to our mind, a plurality... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Mythology - 1867 - 468 pages
...others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of' the supplicant as good as all gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity, — as supreme and absolute, — without a suspicion of those limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - India - 1873 - 822 pages
...Mviller. " Each god is to the mind of the suppliant as good as all the gods. He is felt at the time as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which to our minds a plurality of gods must entail on every single god." 2 And the reason of this can only be that,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - India - 1873 - 834 pages
...fact now before us has been admirably stated by Miiller. " Each god is to the mind of the suppliant as good as all the gods. He is felt at the time as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which to our minds a plurality of gods... | |
 | Thomas Lumisden Strange - Bible - 1874 - 264 pages
...of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all gods. He is felt at the time, as a real divinity, as supreme and absolute, without a suspicion of those limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on every... | |
 | Religion - 1880 - 576 pages
...in Professor Max Miiller's Lectures of the previous year. ' Each god is to the mind of the suppliant as good as all the gods. He is felt at the time as a real divinity, as supreme and absolute. .... All the rest disappear from the vision, .... and he only who is to fulfil their desires stands... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Religion - 1878 - 422 pages
...limited by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the suppliant as good as all the gods. He is felt at the time as...entail on every single god. All the rest disappear from the vision of the poet, and he only who is to fulfil their desires stands in full light before... | |
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When these individual gods are invoked,' I said (p. 532), 'they are not conceived as limited by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the suppliant as good as all the gods. He is felt at the time as a real divinity,... 
