Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1Wm. H. Allen, 1837 - Indo-Aryan philology |
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Page 101 - The real doctrine of the whole Indian • Asiatic Researches, vol. vii. p. 283. scripture is the unity of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended : and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars, and planets, as gods.
Page 106 - Accompanying her husband she shall reside so long " in Swarga as are the thirty-five millions of hairs on " the human body. " As the Snake-catcher forcibly drags the Serpent " from his earth ; so, bearing her husband from Hell, " with him she shall enjoy heavenly bliss. " Dying with her husband, she sanctifies her maternal " and paternal ancestors, and the ancestry of him, to
Page 123 - He rises, wonderful, the eye of the sun, of water, and of fire, collective power of gods ; he fills heaven, earth, and sky, with his luminous net ; he is the soul of all which is fixed or locomotive." 3d. That eye, supremely beneficial, rises pure from the east ; may we see him a hundred years ; may we live a hundred years ; may we hear a hundred years." 4th. May we, preserved by the divine power, contemplating heaven above the region of darkness, approach the deity,
Page 23 - I pervade heaven and earth. I bore the father on the head of this universal mind ; and my origin is in the midst of the ocean : and therefore do I pervade all beings, and touch this heaven with my form. Originating all beings, I pass like the breeze; I am above this heaven, beyond this earth; and what is the GREAT ONE, that am I.
Page 103 - They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole ; and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader ; much less that of the translator.
Page 24 - Darkness there was ; (for) this universe was enveloped with darkness, and was undistinguishable (like fluids mixed in) waters ; but that mass, which was covered by the husk, was (at length) produced by the power of contemplation. First, desire was formed in his mind, and that became the original productive seed ; which the wise, recognising it by the intellect in their hearts, distinguish, in nonentity, as the bond of entity.
Page 311 - The earth is not the king's, but is common to all beings enjoying the fruit of their own labour. It belongs, says Jaimini, to all alike: therefore, although a gift of a piece of ground to an individual does take place, the whole land cannot be given by a monarch, nor a province by a subordinate prince; but house and field, acquired by purchase and similar means, are liable to gift.
Page 249 - When separation of the informed soul from its corporeal frame at length takes place, and nature in respect of it ceases, then is absolute and final deliverance accomplished.
Page 38 - Thus HE drew from the waters and framed an embodied being. He viewed him ; and of that being so contemplated the mouth opened as an egg ; from the mouth speech issued ; from speech fire proceeded. The nostrils spread ; from the nostrils breath passed ; from breath air was propagated. The eyes opened ; from the eyes a glance sprang ; from that glance the sun was produced.
Page 55 - She became a cow ; and the other became a bull , and approached her; and the issue were kine. She was changed into a mare, and he into a stallion; one was turned into a female ass, and the other into a male one : thus did he again approach her ; and the one-hoofed kind was the offspring. She became a female goat, and he a male one; she was an ewe, and he a ram: thus he approached her; and goats and sheep were the progeny. In this manner did he create every existing pair whatsoever , even to the ants...