Rig-Veda-Sanhitá: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns ..Edward Byles Cowell, William Frederick Webster W. H. Allen and Company, 1850 |
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abundant accept according acts addressed adoration AGNI appears associated Asuras AśWINS battle become benefits bestow born Brahman bring called cattle ceremony chariot cloud cows dawn deity desirous divine drink dwelling earth enemies excellent explained expression fire firmament foes former give given giver gods grant hands heaven heaven and earth hither horses hymn identified INDRA invoke knows latter legend libation light lord Manu MARUTS mean metre mighty MITRA night oblations obtained offer original passage performed persons pious powerful praise prayer present preserve priests protection protector Puráñas rain rays recited rendered riches Rishi rite Rosen RUDRA sacred sacrifice sage says Scholiast sense seven shining showerers Soma juice sons stanzas strength SÚKTA term thee things thou art thou hast thunderbolt tion USHAS usually Varga VARUÑA Veda verse vigour waters wealth wind wise worship
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第 xxvii 頁 - S'IVA, occurs; and there is not the slightest allusion to the form in which, for the last ten centuries, at least, he seems to have been almost exclusively worshipped in India, —that of the Linga or Phallus.
第 xxv 頁 - The blessings prayed for are for the most part of a temporal and personal description — wealth, food, life, posterity, cattle, cows and horses, protection against enemies, victory over them, and sometimes their destruction...
第 12 頁 - Depart ye revilers from hence and every other place (where he is adored). Varga viii. 6. Destroyer of foes, let our enemies say we are prosperous ; let men (congratulate us); may we ever abide in the felicity (derived from the favour) of INDRA. 7. Offer to INDRA, the pervader (of every rite of libation), the juice that is present (at the three ceremonies), the grace of the sacrifice, the exhilarator of mankind, the perfecter of the act, the favourite of (that INDRA) who gives happiness (to the offerer)....
第 xxv 頁 - R'ibhus, elevated for their piety to the rank of divinities. Protection against evil spirits (Rdkshasas) is also requested, and in one or two passages Yama and his office, as ruler of the dead, are obscurely alluded to. There is little demand for moral benefactions...
第 281 頁 - Let no father, who knows the law, receive a gratuity, however small, for giving his daughter in marriage ; since the man who, through avarice, takes a gratuity for that purpose, is a seller of his offspring.
第 xxiii 頁 - ... on the fire, sometimes on the ground, or rather on the Kusa, or sacred grass, strewed on the floor ; and in all cases the residue was drunk by the assistants. The ceremony takes place in the dwelling of the worshipper, in a chamber appropriated to the purpose and probably to the maintenance of a perpetual fire, although the frequent allusions to the occasional kindling of the sacred flame are rather at variance with this practice.
第 17 頁 - INDRA,—whether he come from verted to, of the Asuras named Panis having stolen the cows of the gods, or, according to some versions, of the Angirasas, and hidden them in a cave, where they were discovered by Indra, with the help of the bitch Saramd.
第 307 頁 - Three nights and three days, NASATYAS, have you conveyed BHUJYU in three rapid, revolving cars, having a hundred wheels, and drawn by six horses," along the dry bed of the ocean to the shore of the sea.
第 247 頁 - Ayus, or life. for their own purposes, and each in succession severally nourishes a son ; in one, HARI is the receiver of oblations, in the other, the brilliant AGNI is beheld. 2. The vigilant and youthful Ten beget, through the wind, this embryo AGNI," inherent (in all bewhite, or night and day.
第 xxiv 頁 - ... place in the dwelling of the worshipper, in a chamber appropriated to the purpose, and, probably, to the maintenance of a perpetual fire; although the frequent allusions to the occasional kindling of the sacred flame are rather at variance with this practice. 11 There is no mention of any temple, nor any reference to a public place of worship; and it is clear that the worship was entirely domestic.