Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures,: Collected from the Customs, Manners, Rites, Superstitions, Traditions, Parabolical, Idiomatical, and Proverbial Forms of Speech, Climate, Works of Art, and Literature, of the Hindoos, During a Residence in the East of Nearly Fourteen YearsJohn Murray, 1835 - 619 pages |
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Page 7
... child . The Vireyan serpent eats dust . The Hindoos believe , that though the Brahminy kite is the enemy of all serpents , it dares not to attack the Capella , be- cause the latter once went with a complaint to Vishnoo , saying , " O ...
... child . The Vireyan serpent eats dust . The Hindoos believe , that though the Brahminy kite is the enemy of all serpents , it dares not to attack the Capella , be- cause the latter once went with a complaint to Vishnoo , saying , " O ...
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... child- bearing are produced by the sins they had committed in a former state of existence . " Brahma created woman out of sin , which he had collected , " and being thus formed , it is believed she must have misery . Thus , one of the ...
... child- bearing are produced by the sins they had committed in a former state of existence . " Brahma created woman out of sin , which he had collected , " and being thus formed , it is believed she must have misery . Thus , one of the ...
Page 11
... child would be accosted in the following language : - " If you have done this , think not to escape ; no ! for sin will ever lie at your door : it will descend from generation to generation . " To a man accused of having committed any ...
... child would be accosted in the following language : - " If you have done this , think not to escape ; no ! for sin will ever lie at your door : it will descend from generation to generation . " To a man accused of having committed any ...
Page 16
... child or a man , the enquiry is not how many years , but , " Days how many ? " - In speaking of a man who will die soon " Ah ! in five years his days will gone . That young man has hairs ; to him how many days ? he has seen twenty - six ...
... child or a man , the enquiry is not how many years , but , " Days how many ? " - In speaking of a man who will die soon " Ah ! in five years his days will gone . That young man has hairs ; to him how many days ? he has seen twenty - six ...
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... children by her . " The Hebrew has " Be builded by her . " When a wife has been for some time considered steril , should she have a child , she is said to be making her house new , or rather , she has caused the house to be newly built ...
... children by her . " The Hebrew has " Be builded by her . " When a wife has been for some time considered steril , should she have a child , she is said to be making her house new , or rather , she has caused the house to be newly built ...
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alluded allusions amongst animals Assyria Baal Peor Baal-zebub Babylon beasts beautiful believe blessed body Boothroyd Brahma Brahmin burning called Calmet cast ceremonies Ceylon CHAP child Dagon daughter dead death deity earth East Eastern Egypt enemies enquired evil eyes face familiar spirit father favour fear feast feet fellow female fire fruit give gods gold gone ground hair hand hath head heathen heaven Hebrew Hence Hindoos holy husband idols Imaus Israel jewels Jews Kandian war king lingam live look Lord margin marriage moon mother mountains mouth never night offering ornaments person Philistines Priapus priest rain reference rice Royal Asiatic Society sacred says Scanda Purana seen Septuagint serpent servant Siva sorrow speak stone taken Tamul translation temple thee thing thou shalt tree unto verse vessel Vishnoo walk wife woman word worship Yama