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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... head . The following is a translation of the passage from the Kúrma Púrána : " Let us place on our heads the feet of SACTI , who when she put on Síva's dishevelled lock of hair the crescent moon , her arm - ring , which had been broken ...
... head . The following is a translation of the passage from the Kúrma Púrána : " Let us place on our heads the feet of SACTI , who when she put on Síva's dishevelled lock of hair the crescent moon , her arm - ring , which had been broken ...
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... head . ' * CALMET also says : • ASTARTE was the same as the Isis of Egypt ; and again quoting JEROME , who in several places translated the name ASTARTE by PRIAPUS . ' " In reference to the indecent object alluded to as being wor ...
... head . ' * CALMET also says : • ASTARTE was the same as the Isis of Egypt ; and again quoting JEROME , who in several places translated the name ASTARTE by PRIAPUS . ' " In reference to the indecent object alluded to as being wor ...
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... head- dress sparkled with jewels , and was most elegantly beaded with rows of pearls encircling it like a coronet ; from which a brilliant angular ornament hung over her forehead , and between her eyebrows . " — Vol . ii . 265 . I find ...
... head- dress sparkled with jewels , and was most elegantly beaded with rows of pearls encircling it like a coronet ; from which a brilliant angular ornament hung over her forehead , and between her eyebrows . " — Vol . ii . 265 . I find ...
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... head , covered with white cloth , going to the house of the man who can grant the boon . Should there be something very important at stake , then a diamond , or a ruby , or some valuable jewel , will be sent by a confidential person ...
... head , covered with white cloth , going to the house of the man who can grant the boon . Should there be something very important at stake , then a diamond , or a ruby , or some valuable jewel , will be sent by a confidential person ...
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... head , to defend it from evil . 35. " All his sons , and all his daughters , rose up to comfort him . " - are we not This might be a description of a similar event amongst the Orientals of this day . Has a father lost a son or a ...
... head , to defend it from evil . 35. " All his sons , and all his daughters , rose up to comfort him . " - are we not This might be a description of a similar event amongst the Orientals of this day . Has a father lost a son or a ...
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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