A Handbook of Sanskrit Literature: With Appendices Descriptive of the Mythology, Castes, and Religious Sects of the Hindus. Intended Especially for Candidates for the India Civil Service, and Missionaries to India, Issues 1-7

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Williams and Norgate, 1866 - India - 207 pages
 

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Page 10 - Other deities belonging to those several regions are portions of the [three] Gods ; for they are variously named and described, on account of their different operations : but [in fact] there is only one deity, THE GREAT SOUL (Mahan atma).
Page 206 - According to the immediate object of the worshipper, is the particular form of worship ; but all the forms require the use of some or all of the five Miikaru,'.-,} Manna, Matsya, Madya, Maithuna, and Mudrd, flesh, fish, wine, women, and certain mystical gesticulations.
Page 102 - Hence it follows that religion and irreligion refer to thoughts, words, and actions. Some actions, however, are purely those of the mind, or of the voice, or of the body. The virtue or vice of all actions depend on the state of the heart. The doctrine that, at a certain period, the whole universe will be destroyed at once, is incorrect. The world had no beginning, and will have no end. As long as there are works, there must be birth, as well as a world like the present, to form a theatre on which...
Page 189 - Samarpana eat only from the hands of each other; and the wife or child that has not exhibited the same mark of devotion to the Guru can neither cook for such a disciple nor eat in his society. The mark on the forehead consists of two red perpendicular lines meeting in a semicircle at the root of the nose, and having a round spot of red between them. The Bhaktas have the same marks as the...
Page 123 - It is highly probable that, of the present popular forms of the Hindu religion, none assumed their actual state earlier than the time of Sankara Acharya, the great Saiva reformer, who flourished, in all likelihood, in the eighth or ninth century.
Page 182 - ... his living resemblance, and after death is his associate and equal ; he is eternal, without end or beginning, as in fact is the elementary matter of which he consists, and of which all things are made residing in him before they took their present form, as the parts of. the tree abide in the seed, or flesh, blood and bone, may be considered to be present in the seminal fluid : from the latter circumstance, and the identity of their essential nature, proceeds the doctrine, that God and man are...
Page 113 - Under this dynasty the Brahmanical system gained ascendancy more rapidly and completely than under the Lunar kings in the more northern districts, where fresh arrivals of martial tribes preserved an independent spirit among the population already settled in those parts. The most famous of the Lunar race, who reigned in...
Page 179 - Sdstras, in a style peculiarly well suited to the genius of his countrymen to whom he addressed himself; whilst he also directed his compositions to the Musalman, as well as to the Hindu faith, and with equal severity attacked the Mulld and Koran.
Page 9 - The deities invoked appear, on a cursory inspection of the Veda, to be as various as the authors of the prayers addressed to them: but, according to the most ancient annotations on the Indian scripture, those numerous names of persons and things are all resolvable into different titles of three deities, and ultimately of one god.
Page 10 - Other deities belonging to these several regions are portions of the [three] Gods; for they are variously named and described, on account of their different operations: but [in fact] there is only one Deity, the Great Soul (Median- Atma).

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