Myths of the Hindus & BuddhistsG. G. Harrap, Limited, 1916 - 425 páginas |
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amongst answered apsarās Arjuna arrows asked asuras Ayodhyā battle beautiful behold Behulā Bharata Bhima Bhishma bird birth body boon born Brahmā Brahman brothers Buddha charioteer child Chyavana creatures cried Daksha Damayanti Dasharatha daughter death demons desire devas Devayānī Dhritarashtra divine dost Drona Drupada Duryodhana earth elephant eyes father fell fire flowers forest gandharvas gave gods grief grieve hand Hanuman head heart Heaven hermitage hermits Hindu honour host Indian Indra Kacha Kaikeyī Karna king knew Krishna Lankā live lord Mahābhārata Manasa monkeys mother mountain Nachiketas nāga Nala Nārada night offerings palace Pandavas prayed princes queen rakshasas Rāma Rāma and Lakshman Rāma's Rāmāyana Rāvana replied rishis royal sacrifice sage Satyavān Sāvitrī saying sent Shiva Sītā slain slay stood story Sugriva thee thine thou art thou shalt thou shouldst thought throne told took tree Ushanas Vibhishana Vishnu wife words worship Yama Yudhishthira
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Página 187 - Wilt thou do the deed and repent it? thou hadst better never been born: Wilt thou do the deed and exalt it? then thy fame shall be outworn: Thou shalt do the deed and abide it, and sit on thy throne on high, And look on to-day and to-morrow as those that never die.
Página 188 - The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. Nor at any time verily was I not, nor thou, nor these princes of men, nor verily shall we ever cease to be, hereafter.
Página 250 - What if I now should rid me of This body foul, this charnel-house, And go my way without a care, Or least regret for things behind...
Página 9 - Not by birth does one become a Brahman : By his actions alone one becomes a Brahman.
Página 389 - Though birthless and unchanging of essence, and though lord of born beings, yet in my sway over the Nature that is mine own I come into birth by my own magic.
Página 2 - A single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilisation and 27 learning Ages of accumulation are entrusted to the frail bark of each passing epoch by the hand of the past, desiring to make over its treasures to the use of the future. It takes a certain stubbornness, a doggedness of loyalty, even a modicum of unreasonable conservatism may be, to lose nothing in the long march of the ages- and even when confronted with great empires, with...
Página 315 - ... revivifying showers. In the midst of the milky sea, Hari himself, in the form of a tortoise, served as a pivot for the mountain, as it was whirled around. The holder of the mace and discus was present in other forms amongst the gods and demons, and assisted to drag the monarch of the serpent race: and in another vast body he sat upon the summit of the mountain. With one portion of his energy, unseen by gods or demons, he sustained the serpent king; and with another, infused vigour into the gods.
Página 119 - The Mahabharata constitutes, and is intended to constitute, a supreme appeal to the heart and conscience of every generation. Far more than the national tradition, it embodies the national morality.
Página 24 - Lakshman, and Dasharatha with his wives in his kingdom, laughing and talking, bearing and forbearing, doing and undoing as in real life, as clearly as one might see a fruit held in the palm of the hand. He perceived not only what had been, but what was to come. Then only, after concentred meditation, when the whole story lay like a picture in his mind, he began to shape it into shlokast of which, when it was finished, there were no less than twenty-four thousand.
Página 2 - • learning Ages of accumulation are entrusted to the frail bark of each passing epoch by the hand of the past, desiring to make over its treasures to the use. of the future. It takes a certain stubbornness, a doggedness of loyalty, even a modicum of unreasonable conservatism may be, to lose nothing in the long march of the ages, and even when confronted with great empires, with a sudden extension of the idea of culture or with the supreme temptation of a new religion, to hold fast what we have,...