 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 pàgines
...with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. " The waters are called nara; because they were the production of Nara, or the Spirit...they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he is thence named Narayana, or moving on the waters." Kir Wrn. Jones. Instil, of Menu, p. 2. *Gen. ch.... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 386 pàgines
...undiscerned, made the world discernible. With a thought he first created the waters, which are called nara, or the spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he is thence called Narayana, or moving on the waters. The Chinese in their ancient traditions say, the... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pàgines
...on one object, the supreme God." Treating of the creation, it is said, " The waters are called Nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the Spirit of God." From which it appears that a knowledge of the one supreme God, obtained among mankind at a very early... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pàgines
...himself, in the form of BRAHMA, the great forefather of all spirits. " The waters were called nara, because they were the production of NARA, or the Spirit of God ; and since they were his first ni/ntia, or place of motion, he thence is named NARAYANA, or moving on the waters. " From THAT WHICH... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 526 pàgines
...from their union with these they were themselves born in sundry incarna* The waters are called nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God; and since they were his first nyana, or place of motion, he thence is named NAHAYANA, or moving on the waters. Inst. of Menu, ch.... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1848 - 676 pàgines
...undiscemed, made the world discernible. With a thought he first created the waters, which are called N/irn, or the Spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he is thence named Karayana, or moving on the waters. The order of the creation in tho ancient traditions... | |
 | 1849 - 492 pàgines
...wellknown passage of the Puran, taken from a verse of Menu, a work still more holy, "The waters are called 'Nara,' or the Spirit of God ; and since they were his first ' ayana,' a place of motion, he is thence named ' Narayana,' or the ' Spirit of God moving upon the waters ;... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1851 - 762 pàgines
...undiscernod, made the world discernible. With a thought he first created the waters, which are culled Nara, or the Spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he is thence named Narayana, or moving on the waters. The order of the creation in the ancient traditions... | |
 | John William Draper - 1863 - 680 pàgines
...his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters. The waters are so called (nara) because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God ; and, since they were his first ayand, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or moving on the waters. From that which is... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 548 pàgines
...himself, in the form of Brahma, the great forefather of all spirits. " The waters are called Nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God ; and hence they were his first ayana, or place of motion ; he hence is named Nara yana, or moving on the... | |
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The seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams, and in that egg he was born himself, in the form of Brahma, the great forefather of all spirits. " The waters are called Nara, because they were the production of... 
