Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 20Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1863 - Asia Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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Page 35 - How can we be reproduced ?' So saying, they toiled, they performed austerity. While they were performing austerity, a golden egg came into existence. Being produced, it then became a year. Wherefore this golden egg floated about for the period of a year. From it in a year a male (purusha) came into existence, who was Prajipati.
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Page 438 - ... the central part of the forehead with the junction of the head and neck. The distances from the crown of the head to the trochanter, and from the trochanter to the ground, give together the total height of the man. The trochanter is the prominent exterior part of the thigh bone near its upper end. The total span is the distance from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other, the arms being stretched out to their full length in a horizontal position. In statues the total span had to be...
Page 107 - Bactrians, harassed with various wars, lost not only their dominions, but their liberty; for having suffered from contentions with the Sogdians, the Drangians, and the Indians, they were at last overcome, as if exhausted, by the weaker* Parthians.
Page 367 - RA'JA, though they lived at intervals of centuries from each other. A'RYABHATTA then being the earliest author known to have treated of Algebra among the Hindus, and being likely to be, if not the inventor, the improver, of that analysis, by whom too it was pushed nearly to the whole degree of excellence which it is found to have attained among them...
Page 369 - The terrestrial globe, a compound of earth, water, fire, and air, entirely round, encompassed by a girdle (the equator'), stands in the air, in the centre of the stellar sphere. Like as a ball formed by the blossoms of the nauclea Radamba is on every side beset with flowerets ; so is the earth-globe with all creatures, terrestrial and aquatic.
Page 35 - how can we be reproduced?' So saying, they toiled, they performed austerity. While they were performing austerity, a golden egg came into existence. Being produced, it then became a year. Wherefore this golden egg floated about for the period of a year.
Page 36 - In the later mythology it is Vishnu who assumes the form of a tortoise : Thus in the chapter of the Bhagavata Purana descriptive of Vishnu's incarnations it is said (i. 3, 16...
Page 59 - ... the classical modern Persian of literature during the Mahometan period, from Firdausi and his immediate predecessors and contemporaries downwards ; and, finally, that which has furnished philologists with fewer materials than any, the true living language of modern Iran. It must not be forgotten that Persian is spoken as a native and vernacular language much beyond the limits of the Persian Empire, in the settled parts of Turkistan and Afghanistan, far into the heart of the Chinese Empire, by...
Page 33 - In the beginning, this universe was indeed non-existent. But men say 'What was that non-existent?' The Rishis say that in the beginning there was non-existence. Who are these Rishis? The Rishis are breaths. Inasmuch as before all this universe, they desiring this universe were worn out (Arishan) with toil and austerity, therefore they are called Rishis.