The Vishńu Puráńa: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition, 1. köideFitzedward Hall Trübner, 1865 |
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according Ádityas amongst Apsarases Asiatic Researches asterisms Asura Bengal recension Bhagavata Bhagavata-puráňa Bharata Brahma called CHAPTER Daityas Daksha Dánavas daughter deity Dhruva divine Dwipa earth foot-note Gandharvas Gangá Géog gods Hari Vamsa heaven hell Hindu India Indische Alterthumskunde Indra infra Kalpa Kasyapa king Kishkindhá-káńda Kshattriyas Kúrma larger commentary Linga lunar LVII M. V. de Saint-Martin's Mahábhárata Maitreya Manu Manwantara Márkańdeya Matsya Meru moon mountains Muni Nárada Nidágha Nishadha Original Sanskrit Texts Padma Parvan passage Pátála patriarch Pauráńik Prahláda Pramlochá Professor Wilson Puránas Rámáyana Rambha Ribhu Rig-veda Riksha Riksha mountain Rishis river Royal Asiatic Society Rudra Sabhá-parvan sage Sanskrit serpents seven Śiva smaller commentary sons soul stanza supra supreme thee thou thousand Yojanas translation tribes Varshas Varuna Váyu Vedas Vindhya Vishnu Wilford word Yojanas इति चैव तथा तु ये वै स्मृतः
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Page 54 - That is active duty," says the Vishnu Purana, "which is not for our bondage; that is knowledge which is for our liberation: all other duty is good only unto weariness; all other knowledge is only the cleverness of an artist.
Page 209 - Vishn'u-Purdn'a relates, is severally white, black, purple, yellow, sandy, stony, and of gold ; they are embellished with magnificent palaces, in which dwell numerous Danavas, Daityas, Yakshas, and great snake-gods, decorated with brilliant jewels, and happy in the enjoyment of delicious viands and strong wines.
Page 250 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the godhead 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...
Page 332 - The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu, who is identical with all things, and is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same as themselves. I neither am going nor coming; nor is my dwelling in any one place; nor art thou, thou; nor are others, others; nor am I, I.
Page 5 - She then, reproached by him, went forth from his dwelling, and, passing through the air, wiped the perspiration from her person with the leaves of the trees. The nymph went from tree to tree, and as with the dusky shoots that crowned their summits she dried her limbs, which were covered with moisture, the child she had conceived by the Rishi came forth from the pores of her skin in drops of perspiration. The trees received the living dews, and the winds collected them into one mass. "This...
Page 95 - ... before all the first-born; the supporter of all beings, himself self-sustained: who exists in manifold forms, as gods, men, and animals; and is thence the sovereign lord of all, eternal: whose shape is all visible things; who is without shape or form: who is celebrated in the Vedanta as the Rich, Yajush, Sama, and Atharva Vedas, inspired history, and sacred science.
Page 236 - He is the performer of the rites of devotion: he is the rite: he is the fruit which it bestows: he is the implements by which it is performed. There is nothing besides the illimitable...
Page 134 - The white Huns, or Indo-scythians, who were established in the Punjab and along the Indus, at the commencement of our era, as we know from Arrian, Strabo, and Ptolemy, confirmed by recent discoveries of their coins.
Page 273 - Kesava (Vishnu), acquire thereby final liberation. This sacred stream, heard of, desired, seen, touched, bathed in, or hymned day by day, sanctifies all beings ; and those who, even at a distance of a hundred leagues, exclaim, " Ganga, Ganga," atone for the sins committed during three previous lives.
Page 84 - ... subordinate deities which share in the merry life of Indra's heaven, as the wives of the Gandharvas, but more especially as wives of a licentious sort, and they are promised therefore, too, as a reward to heroes fallen in battle when they are received in the paradise of Indra ; and while, in the Rig Veda, they assist Soma to pour down his floods, they descend in the epic literature on earth merely to shake the virtue of penitent sages, and to deprive them of the power they would otherwise have...