ProceedingsAsiatic Society of Bengal, 1868 - Asia |
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Page 237 - cow, or bull, a horse, a boar, a stag) was every day killed in the evening, and yet re-appeared almost unhurt the next morning. Yet a decay of his power was clearly visible in the time from midsummer to midwinter, in which latter time, in the more northern regions, he almost wholly disappears, and,
Page 191 - I met with were encamped in the jungle at the foot of some hills. The hut was rudely made of a few sal branches, its occupants being one man, an old and two young women, besides three or four children. At the time of my visit, they were taking their morning meal,
Page 193 - owing to the absence of cultivation in the plains, they were even still more dependent on the supply of jungle food than they are at present. In those times their axes and their implements for grubbing up roots, were in all probability made of stone, and their arrows had tips made of the same material.
Page 236 - penitentials of Germany and England, which give us to understand that at the close of the old year, and at the beginning of the new one (we call that time " die Zwolften
Page 236 - Both in our ancient and modern popular traditions, there is universally spoken of the Wild Hunter, who sometimes appears under the name of Wodan or Goden, and was, in heathenish times, the supreme god of the ancient German nations. This god coincides, both in character and shape, with the ancient Rudra of the Vedas,
Page 236 - is represented as shooting at the ricya and rohit. The stag, in German mythology, is the animal of the god Freyr, who, like Prajapati, is a god of the sun, of fertility, &c., so that the shot at that stag is to be compared with Rudra's shooting at the ricya
Page 189 - to the Undersecretary of State for India. ' I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to
Page 193 - their customs as such races are, it is scarcely likely that they would have forgotten it. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that there was a period, anterior to the advent of the Hindus, when iron was quite unknown to them,
Page 193 - more dependent on the supply of jungle food than they are at present. In those times their axes and their implements for grubbing up roots, were in all probability made of stone, and their arrows had tips made of the same material.
Page 25 - the proud mind, nor a vantage ground for the haughty, nor a shop for profit and sale, but a storehouse for the glory of God, and the endowment of mankind.