History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos, 1. köide1817 |
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abominable animal ascetic bathing Benares Bengal betwixt birth blessing blood bloody sacrifices body Brumha Calcutta called celebrated cere ceremonies Christian Chundrů clarified butter crowd cursed daily dancing daughter death declared destroy disciples divine doctrine Doorga dreadful earth elephant eyes female festival fire flowers four arms fruits Ganges giants goddess gods guardian deity Gŭroorů hand he holds happiness head heaven Hindoo writings holy honour husband idol idolatry incantation incarnation Indru Jupiter Kalee Kartikéyŭ king Krishnů marriage mendicants merit mind moon mother Narŭdů obtain offerings officiating bramhun performed person planet plantain poita pooranus praise present priest punishment Půvůnů religion religious austerities repeat the name respecting river roopees sacred sage Saturn says SECT Serampore shastrus Shivă Shivů sitting Sōōryŭ soul spirit spiritual guide stone story supposed temple thee things thou thousand tion tree Ugnee védŭs Vishnoo Vrihŭsputee water-lily wife worship Yumů
Popular passages
Page ci - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page ci - ... from thee, from the one* end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;) thou shalt net consent unto him, nor hearken unto him ; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him : but thou shalt surely kill him ; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Page cii - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries...
Page lxviii - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...
Page 87 - Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens,
Page cii - Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Page 264 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page ciii - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse : therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed...
Page cii - Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah ; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein...
Page xlvii - All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?