Hitopadeśa: the Sanskrit text : with a grammatical analysis, alphabetically arrangedStephen Austin, 1864 - 284 pagina's |
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Pagina 105 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Pagina 232 - Sinhika, a Daitya, with the tail of a dragon, whose head was severed from his body by Vishnu ; but being immortal, the head and tail retained their separate existence, and being transferred to the stellar sphere, became the authors of eclipses ; the first especially, by endeavouring, at various times, to swallow the sun and moon. ~^\5ППТ râhunâ, ins. sin. ripu, sm Foe, enemy, f^q^ripus, nom. sin. ripunä, ¿я».
Pagina 151 - BRAHMA, a period of 4,320,000,000 solar syderial years, or years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world, and as many the interval of its annihilation.
Pagina 174 - The name of a tree ; it also means a mark made with coloured earths or unguents upon the forehead and between the eyebrows, either as an ornament or a sectarial distinction ; the poet intends the word to convey both ideas at once here.
Pagina 166 - А religious or expiatory observance, regulated by the moon's age; diminishing the ,¡ daily consumption of food every day, by ¡ one mouthful, for the dark half of the month, beginning with fifteen at the full moon, until it is reduced to one, at the ' new moon, and then increasing it in like manner during the fortnight of the moon's increase: there are other forms of this penance.
Pagina 233 - Attached to, intent on , joined to, connected with. sm '1 he rising of a sign, its appearance above the horizon ; the oblique ascension, or the divisions of the equator, which rise in succession with each sign in an oblique sphere ; also...
Pagina 184 - V4Î s- m- Religion, duty, law. Virtue, moral and religious merit according to the law and the Vedas. Any thing right, proper, and just; and conformable to the law and reason. Any peculiar or prescribed practice or duty ; thus, giving alms, &c. is the dherma of a householder ; administering justice, the dherma of a king ; piety, that of a Brahman ; courage, that of a Kshetriya, &c. A name of YAMA. The fifteenth of the twenty-four Jaina pontiffs of the present age. The bull of SIVA, a personification...
Pagina 223 - At the intervals of the minor destruction of the world Vishnu is represented as reposing himself upon the serpent Sesha, amidst the waters by which the earth is overspread. He also takes a nap of four months...
Pagina 201 - Parva, or conjunction of the sun and moon, at which double oblations are offered ; three cakes to the father, paternal grandfather, and great grandfather ; and three to the maternal grandfather, his father and grandfather ; and the crumbs of each set to the remoter ancestors in each line.
Pagina vi - Its popularity through so many ages, amidst such various nations, is evidence of intrinsic merit : and the pictures of domestic manners and human nature which it presents, however tinctured by national peculiarities, must have been recognised as universally true, as well as diverting ; or they would not have been naturalized in the West as well as in the East. In the maxims also which the tales serve to illustrate, there must have been much that secured the acquiescence of all mankind, or the remarks...