| Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hindu philosophy - 1875 - 624 pages
...many centuries has held India in bondage : The embodied spirit' has a thousand heads, A thousand eyen, a thousand feet, around On every side enveloping the...that which is immortal in the sky. From him, called Punisha, was born Viraj, And from Viraj was Purusha produced * Whom gods and holy men made their oblation.... | |
| Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hindu philosophy - 1875 - 640 pages
...foreshadowing of the institution of caste, which for so many centuries has held India in bondage : The embodied spirit ' has a thousand heads, A thousand...enveloping the earth, Yet filling space no larger than a span8. He is himself this very universe, He is whatever is, has been, and shall be. -. \» He is the... | |
| Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hindu philosophy - 1876 - 600 pages
...foreshadowing of the institution of caste, which for so many centuries has held India in bondage : The embodied spirit ' has a thousand heads, A thousand...the earth, Yet filling space no larger than a span 2. He is himself this very universe, He is whatever is, has heen, and shall be. He is the lord of immortality.... | |
| James Vaughan - India - 1876 - 424 pages
...those venerable records. Speaking of God it says— He is himself this very universe, He is what ever is, has been, and shall be. He is the Lord of immortality....three-fourths Are that which is immortal in the sky. i Even in the present day, when Hindus, without blushing, tell of their 330 millions of gods, you ever... | |
| James Vaughan - India - 1876 - 396 pages
...those venerable records. Speaking of God it says — He is himself this very universe, He is what ever is, has been, and shall be. He is the Lord of immortality. All creatures are one-fourth of him, thrce-fourths Are that which is immortal in the sky. 1 Even in the present day, when Hindus, without... | |
| Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hinduism - 1877 - 256 pages
...sacrifice, as well as the institution of caste,1 which for so many centuries has held India in bondage :— The embodied spirit has a thousand heads, A thousand...All creatures are one-fourth of him, three-fourths 1 This hymn (generally admitted to be a comparatively modern production) is the only hymn in the Rig-veda... | |
| Kenneth Somerled Macdonald - Vedas - 1881 - 280 pages
...to the heaven where the gods, the ancient Sadhyas, reside.' Monier Williams' translation begins: ' The embodied Spirit has a thousand heads, ' A thousand...the earth, Yet filling space, no larger than a span. j He is himself this very Universe ; He is whatever is, has been, and shall be ; He is the lord of... | |
| Kenneth Somerled Macdonald - Hinduism - 1881 - 308 pages
...first supposed reference to the four castes. Of the Purush, God, or man, or both, it is said : — ' He is himself this very universe ; He is whatever is, has been, shall be ; He is the Lord of immortality.' Yet, singularly enough, in the same hymn, as we have already... | |
| Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hinduism - 1882 - 254 pages
...sacrifice, as well as the institution of caste,1 which for so many centuries has held India in bondage :— The embodied spirit has a thousand heads, A thousand...immortality. All creatures are one-fourth of him, three- fourths 1 This hymn (generally admitted to be a comparatively modem production) is the only... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1883 - 464 pages
...This is expressed by a hymn of the Rig- Veda (Mandala x. 90), thus rendered by Monier Williams : — " The embodied spirit has a thousand heads, A thousand...himself this very Universe; He is whatever is, has been, shall be ; He is the Lord of Immortality." Pantheism, in its extreme development, is the assertion... | |
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