The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross: A View of the Religious History of India During the Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, and Christian PeriodsLongmans, Green, 1876 - 344 páginas |
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... Varuna - The supersession of older deities by Indra , Vayu , and Agni - Opposing demons - Hymns to Indra and Agni - Singular notion of a Trinity in Unity - The post- Vedic Triad The pre - Vedic Hindus had no notion of transmigration ...
... Varuna - The supersession of older deities by Indra , Vayu , and Agni - Opposing demons - Hymns to Indra and Agni - Singular notion of a Trinity in Unity - The post- Vedic Triad The pre - Vedic Hindus had no notion of transmigration ...
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... Varuna . These are repre- sented as the sons of Aditi ; the one is said to rule the heavens by day , the other by night . The extreme beauty and sugges- tiveness of the nightly firmament no doubt accounts for the superior attention ...
... Varuna . These are repre- sented as the sons of Aditi ; the one is said to rule the heavens by day , the other by night . The extreme beauty and sugges- tiveness of the nightly firmament no doubt accounts for the superior attention ...
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... Varuna . Thou knowest my downsitting and uprising , thou understandest my thought afar off . Thou compassest my path and my lying down , and art ac- quainted with all my ways . Thou hast beset me behind and before , and laid thine hand ...
... Varuna . Thou knowest my downsitting and uprising , thou understandest my thought afar off . Thou compassest my path and my lying down , and art ac- quainted with all my ways . Thou hast beset me behind and before , and laid thine hand ...
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... Varuna . The Rig - Veda contains the following remarkable Litany used in the worship of this god : - Let me not yet , O Varuna , enter the house of clay ; have mercy , Almighty , have mercy ! If I go trembling like a cloud driven by the ...
... Varuna . The Rig - Veda contains the following remarkable Litany used in the worship of this god : - Let me not yet , O Varuna , enter the house of clay ; have mercy , Almighty , have mercy ! If I go trembling like a cloud driven by the ...
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... Varuna ; the centrifugal tendency necessarily went on extending the area of superstition and multiplying the objects of adoration . Vayu , for instance , the god of wind , soon had in his train a host of subordinate deities called ...
... Varuna ; the centrifugal tendency necessarily went on extending the area of superstition and multiplying the objects of adoration . Vayu , for instance , the god of wind , soon had in his train a host of subordinate deities called ...
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