A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy, Literature, Antiquities, Arts, Manners, Customs &c. of the HindusHigginbotham and Company, 1871 - 793 sider |
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A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy ... John Garrett Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy ... John Garrett Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy ... John Garrett Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
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according Agni amongst ancient Arjuna Asuras austerities Ayodhya became Bhagavata Bharata Bhíma Bhishma birth born Brahmá Brahmans brother Buddhist called caste celebrated celestial ceremony character chariot Daityas Daksha daughters of Daksha death deity demon descendant Dharma Dhritarashtra disciples divine Draupadi Drupada Duryodhana earth father festival fire forest goddess gods Hanumán Hastinapura heaven Hindu holy horse hymns Ikshváku India Indra Kasyapa Kauravas killed king Krishna Kshatriyas legend lived lunar Magadha Mahábhárata Mahárája Manu Manwantara married Meru Mithila moon mother mountain Nala origin Pandavas Pándu performed Prajapati priest prince Professor Wilson race Rája Rákshasa Ráma Rámáyana Rávana reign religious Rig Veda Rishis rites river Rudra sacred sacrifice sage Sanskrit says seven Síta Śiva Soma sons soul spirit Supreme temple thee thou thousand tribes Vaishnava Varuna Vasishtha Vasudeva Váyu Vedic Vishnu Purána Visvamitra Vyása wife worship Yádava Yama Yudhishthira Yuga
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Side 750 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible.
Side 751 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Side 381 - Celebrant carminibus antiquis (quod unum apud illos memoriae et annalium genus est) Tuistonem deum terra editum, et filium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque.
Side 9 - Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky.
Side 51 - Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent.
Side 111 - Nothing is stable on earth,' he used to say, ' nothing is real. Life is like the spark produced by the friction of wood. It is lighted and is extinguished— we know not whence it came or whither it goes. It is like the sound of a lyre, and the wise man asks in vain from whence it came and whither it goes. There must be some supreme intelligence where we could find rest. If I attained it, I could bring light to man ; if I were free myself, I could deliver the world.
Side 116 - It seems not impossible,' he continues, ' that ,S'akya Muni is an unreal being, and that all that is related of him is as much a fiction, as is that of his preceding migrations, and the miracles that attended his birth, his life, and his departure.
Side 154 - Danda, or wand, with several processes or projections from it, and a piece of cloth dyed with red ochre, in which the Brahmanical cord is supposed to be enshrined, attached to it : he shaves his hair and beard, wears only a cloth round his loins, and subsists upon food obtained...
Side 682 - This earth is his, to him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.
Side 19 - VEDA : containing the Earliest Speculations of the Brahmans on the meaning of the Sacrificial Prayers, and on the Origin, Performance, and Sense of the Rites of the Vedic Religion.