The Hymns of the Atharvaveda, Volume 1Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith E. J. Lazarus & Company, 1895 |
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Hymns of the Atharva-veda, Volume 1 Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith,M. L. Abhimanyu Fragmentweergave - 1962 |
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according addressed Aditi Adityas Agni Altindisches Leben Amulet Anumati Apsarases arrows art thou Aryaman Asuras Asvins Atharva-veda Atharvan auspicious Bhaga bless Brahman Brahmanaspati breath Brihaspati bring Bull butter called cattle celestial charm conquer deities demons Der Rigveda disease drive dwell enemies father Fever fiends fire foes Gandharvas give Goat Goddess Gods grief and trouble Grill hast hath Heaven and Earth hither Hundert Lieder hymn incantation Indische Studien Indra Jâtavedas Kâma kine King libation Lord Maruts meaning metre mighty milk Mitra Moon mother Muir Nirriti O. S. Texts oblation pâda Parjanya personified plant poison praise Prajapati prayer priests protection rain regions Rishis Rudra sacrifice Savitar Sâyana Soma spell spirit stanza stanza is taken strength Sûrya Svarga taken from Rigveda thee thine thou art translated by Ludwig unto Varuna Vâyu Veda vigour wealth Weber worship Yama Yâtudhânas ye twain Zimmer
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Pagina 40 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old ; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Pagina 228 - We, the Successor to the prosperous Throne of Our Predecessors, do humbly and solemnly swear to the Imperial Founder of Our House and to Our other Imperial Ancestors that, in pursuance of a great policy co-extensive with the Heavens and with the Earth, We shall maintain and secure from decline the ancient form of government.
Pagina 12 - There (in the highest heaven) dwell and reign those gods who bear in common the name of Adityas. We must, however, if we would discover their earliest character, abandon the conceptions which in a later age, and even in that of the heroic poems, were entertained regarding these deities. According to this conception they were twelve sun-gods, bearing evident reference to the twelve months. But for the most ancient period we must hold fast the primary signification of their name. They are the inviolable,...
Pagina vi - Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. iii. p. 808. It has been surmised (Muller's Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 447, ff.) that the hymns of the Atharvaveda " formed an additional part of the sacrifice from a very early time, and that they were chiefly intended to counteract the influence of any untoward event that might happen during the sacrifice.
Pagina 239 - AND as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind ? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Pagina 397 - Agni, who designs to injure the essence of our food, kine, steeds, or bodies, May he, the adversary, thief, and robber, sink to destruction, both himself and offspring. 11 May he be swept away, himself and children : may all the three earths press him down beneath them. May his fair glory, O ye gods, be blighted, who in the day or night would fain destroy us.
Pagina 106 - We plough the fields, and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God's almighty hand; He sends the snow in winter, The warmth to swell the grain, The breezes and the sunshine, And soft refreshing rain: All good gifts around us Are sent from heaven above, Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, For all his love.
Pagina 217 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
Pagina 162 - ... 3. These are ne'er lost, no robber ever injures them: no evil-minded foe attempts to harass them. The master of the Kine lives many a year with these, the cows whereby he pours his gifts and serves the Gods. 4. The charger with his dusty brow o'ertakes them not, and never to the shambles do they take their way.
Pagina 154 - There is no hymn in the whole Vedic literature which expresses the divine omniscience in such forcible terms as this ; and yet this beautiful description has been degraded into an introduction to an imprecation. But in this, as in many other passages of this Veda, it is natural to conjecture that existing fragments of older hymns have been used to deck out magical formulas. The first five or even six verses of this hymn might be regarded as a fragment of this sort.