The Mythology of the Hindus: With Notices of the Various Mountain and Island Tribes Inhabiting the Two Peninsulas of India and the Neighbouring Islands, and an Appendix Comprising the Minor Avatars and the Mythological and Religious Terms, &c, &c of the HindusParbury, Allen, 1832 - Всего страниц: 401 |
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... performed : -An excavation , nine hands long , two spans broad , and one span deep , is made in the ground , and filled up with fire of pepal wood ; into this the person accused must walk barefooted ; and if his feet remain unhurt ...
... performed : -An excavation , nine hands long , two spans broad , and one span deep , is made in the ground , and filled up with fire of pepal wood ; into this the person accused must walk barefooted ; and if his feet remain unhurt ...
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... performed an infinite variety of others equally notable , which are not in our times of such frequent occurrence ; and finally destroyed Cansa and took possession of his throne . But as I have largely , though not wholly , performed my ...
... performed an infinite variety of others equally notable , which are not in our times of such frequent occurrence ; and finally destroyed Cansa and took possession of his throne . But as I have largely , though not wholly , performed my ...
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... perform toward my readers , and am aware that the loves of heroes should commonly be buried in their roseate and blissful bowers . True it is ( and few will deny that truth , in the face of so many learned authorities ) , that there ...
... perform toward my readers , and am aware that the loves of heroes should commonly be buried in their roseate and blissful bowers . True it is ( and few will deny that truth , in the face of so many learned authorities ) , that there ...
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... performing the several duties of sweeping his host's house and putting it in order , filling water , arranging the vessels for cooking , sancti- fying the eating place by plastering it with cow - dung , & c . Astonished at the sight ...
... performing the several duties of sweeping his host's house and putting it in order , filling water , arranging the vessels for cooking , sancti- fying the eating place by plastering it with cow - dung , & c . Astonished at the sight ...
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... performing those primary duties , the outward ceremonies of religion are of secondary and inferior moment ; and even deities , as you have witnessed , minister to their comforts and conveniences . He who serves his parents , serves his ...
... performing those primary duties , the outward ceremonies of religion are of secondary and inferior moment ; and even deities , as you have witnessed , minister to their comforts and conveniences . He who serves his parents , serves his ...
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Стр. 165 - Soon after the coryza eruptions will appear, first on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet and then on the face.
Стр. 139 - He is called the sun, for he is the soul of all beings ; (and) that is declared by the sage, ' the sun is the soul of what moves, and of that which is fixed.
Стр. 300 - Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Стр. 50 - I have conversed, say, that they have been two months on their march, travelling slowly in the hottest season of the year, with their wives and children. Some old persons are among them, who wish to die at Juggernaut. Numbers of pilgrims die on the road ; and their bodies generally remain unburied.
Стр. 140 - The very birth of Brahmans is a constant incarnation of Dherma, God of Justice; for the Brahman is born to promote justice, and to procure ultimate happiness. "When a Brahman springs to light, he is born above the world, the chief of all creatures, assigned to guard the treasury of duties, religious and civil.
Стр. viii - ... a spirit of sublime devotion, of benevolence to mankind, and of amiable tenderness to all sentient creatures, pervades the whole work ; the style of it has a certain austere majesty, that sounds like the language of legislation and extorts a respectful awe; the sentiments of independence on all beings but GOD, and the harsh admonitions even to kings, are truly noble...
Стр. 137 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Стр. 330 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter having been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Стр. 154 - When a body, formed of five elements to receive the reward of deeds done in its own former person, reverts to its five original principles, what room is there for regret?
Стр. 146 - ... with poison, or a poignard, or some other instrument of suicide in his hand, and threatening to use it if his adversary should attempt to molest or pass him, he thus completely arrests him.