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amongst answered apsarās Arjuna arrows asked asuras Ayodhya battle beautiful behold Behula Bharata Bhima Bhishma bird birth body boon born Brahmā Brahman brothers Buddha charioteer child Chyavana cried Daksha Damayanti dance Dasharatha daughter death delight 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 honour horses host Indian Indra jewels Kacha Kaikeyī Karna king knew Krishna Lankā 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 rishi royal sacrifice sage Satyavān Sāvitrī sent serpent Shiva Sītā slain slay stood story Sugriva thee thou art thou shalt thou shouldst thought throne told took tree Ushanas Vibhishana Vishnu wife words worship Yama Yudhishthira
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Página 197 - 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 198 - 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 258 - To cease from all wrong-doing, To get virtue, To cleanse one's own heart, — This is the religion of the Buddhas.
Página 197 - Exceeding great is the toil of these whose mind is attached to the unshown ; for the unshown way is painfully won by them that wear the body.
Página xi - Not by birth does one become a Brahman: By his actions alone one becomes a Brahman.
Página 381 - 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 31 - ... from matrilineal to agnatic organization, the extant marks of it are alone enough to attest it, at least for some people in some places. It looks like a common inheritance in Greece and in India. There, as John Gordon Vernon recalls, Sita's father, Janaka, said in the story 'I have a daughter Sita, not born of men, but sprung from the furrow as I ploughed the field and hallowed it. On him, who bends the bow, I will bestow my daughter'.
Página 317 - ... 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 100 - Vali could not take the king of Lanka's life away. Then Rama took up the Brahma weapon given to him by Agastya: the Wind lay in its wings, the Sun and Fire in its head, in its mass the weight of Meru and Mandara. Blessing that shaft with Vedic mantras, Rama set it on his bow and loosed it, and it sped to its appointed place and cleft the breast of Ravana, and, bathed in blood, returned and entered Rama's quiver humbly.
Página 296 - Now I depart to Nirvana ; I leave with you my ordinances ; the elements of the allknowing one will indeed pass away, but the three gems will remain.