A classical dictionary of India illustrative of the mythology, philosophy, literature [&c.] of the Hindus. [With] |
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according Agni amongst ancient Arjuna Asuras austerities became Bhagavata Bharata Bhíma Bhishma birth born Brahmá Brahman brother Buddhist called castes celebrated celestial ceremonies chariot Daityas Daksha daughter of Daksha death deities demon descendant Dharma Dhritarashtra disciples divine Draupadi Duryodhana Dwápara earth father fire forest goddess gods Hastinapura heaven Hindu holy horse hymns Ikshváku India Indra Jainas Kalpa Kasyapa Kauravas killed king of Magadha king of Mithila Krishna Kshatriyas legend lived lunar Mahábhárata Mahárája Manu Manwantara married Meru Mithila moon mother mountain Muni Narakas origin Pandavas Pándu Pátála Prajapati priest prince Professor Wilson race Rája Ráma Rámáyana Rávana reigned religious Rig Veda Rishis rites river Rudra sacred sacrifice sage Sanskrit says seven Śiva Soma sons soul spirit Sráddha Supreme teacher thou thousand tribes Varuna Vasishtha Vasudeva Váyu Vedic Vishnu Purána Visvamitra Vyása wife worship Yádava Yama Yudhishthira Yuga
Passatges populars
Pàgina 752 - 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. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth ; Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times opprest, It here is tried and purified, Then hath in heaven its perfect rest : It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time...
Pàgina 752 - 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. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Pàgina 592 - Arian people, whose whole religion was a worship of the wonderful powers and phenomena of nature, had no sooner perceived that this liquid had power to elevate the spirits, and produce a temporary frenzy, under the influence of which the individual was prompted to, and capable of, deeds beyond his natural powers, than they found in it something divine : it was, to their apprehension, a god, endowing those into whom it entered, with godlike powers ; the plant which afforded it became to them the king...
Pàgina 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 maa asks in vain from whence it came and whither it goes.
Pàgina 753 - 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...
Pàgina 114 - ... and thereby destroys the fear, of all the changes inherent in life. It was from the moment when he arrived at this knowledge, that he claimed the name of Buddha, the Enlightened. At that moment we may truly say that the fate of millions of millions of human beings trembled in the balance.
Pàgina 154 - Dandi is distinguished by carrying a small dand or wand, with several 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...
Pàgina 163 - On the day of his birth the quarters of the horizon were irradiate with joy, as if moonlight was diffused over the whole earth.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.