| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 534 pàgines
...the Indians, who suppose them to be the terrestrial haunt of the God I'SWAKA. The mountain Himfilaya, being personified, is represented as a powerful monarch,...Mountain-born, and DURGA', or of difficult access ; but the Hindus believe her to have been married to SIVA in a pre-existent state, when she bore the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 pàgines
...hills are held sacred by the Indians, who suppose them to be the terrestrial haunt of the god Iswara. The mountain Himalaya, being personified, is represented...Mountain-born, and Durga, or of difficult access; but the Hindus believe her to have been married to Siva in a preexistent state, when she bore the name... | |
| John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pàgines
...suppose them to be the terrestrial haunt of the god Iswara. The mountain Himalaya, being per sonified, is represented as a powerful monarch, whose wife was Mena : their daughter is named Parvati, or Mountain-bom, and Durga, or of difficult access ; but the Hindoos believe her to have been married... | |
| Viscountess Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland - 1857 - 348 pàgines
...other, which reaches westward to the mouths of the Indus, was called, by the ancients, Monies Parveti. The mountain Himalaya, being personified, is represented...daughter is named Parvati, or mountain-born, and Durga, of difficult access." — Moore's Hindoo Pantheon, p. 151. This goddess is the personification of all... | |
| William Jones - 1876 - 136 pàgines
...hills are held sacred by the Indians, who suppose them to be the terrestrial haunt of the God I'SWARA. The mountain Himalaya, being personified, is represented...Mountain-born, and DURGA' or of difficult access; but the Hindus believe her to have been married to SIVA in a pre-existent state, when she bore the... | |
| Edward Moor - 1999 - 702 pàgines
...other, which reaches westward to the mouths of the Indus, was called by the ancients Monies Parveti. The mountain Himalaya, being personified, is represented as a powerful monarch, whose wrfe was MENA : their daughter is named PARVATI, or mountain-born, and DURGA, or of difficult access.... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1866 - 786 pàgines
...suppose them to be the terrestrial munt of the cod Iswara, The mountain Himalaya, being er sonified, is represented as a powerful monarch, whose wife was Mena: their daughter is named P&rvati, or lomit.iin-born, andDurga, or of difficult access ; but the Itndoos believe her to have... | |
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