The Mythology of the Hindus: With Notices of the Various Mountain and Island Tribes Inhabiting the Two Peninsulas of India and the Neighbouring Islands, and an Appendix Comprising the Minor Avatars and the Mythological and Religious Terms, &c, &c of the Hindus |
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... usually considered to begin on Friday , the 16th July , A.D. 622 : some make it commence on the preced- ing day . The Hindus have various other eras , which commence in different months of the year . Most of these are local , and a ...
... usually considered to begin on Friday , the 16th July , A.D. 622 : some make it commence on the preced- ing day . The Hindus have various other eras , which commence in different months of the year . Most of these are local , and a ...
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... usually represented as a red or golden - coloured figure , with four heads . He is said ( by the Saivas ) to have once possessed five ; but , as he would not acknowledge the superiority of Siva , as Vishnu had done , that deity cut off ...
... usually represented as a red or golden - coloured figure , with four heads . He is said ( by the Saivas ) to have once possessed five ; but , as he would not acknowledge the superiority of Siva , as Vishnu had done , that deity cut off ...
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... tenth and eleventh avatars . The principal incarnations of this Deity are , however , usually known as they will be found described in the following pages . FIRST or MATSYA AVATAR . In this avatar Vishnu is VISHNU . 13.
... tenth and eleventh avatars . The principal incarnations of this Deity are , however , usually known as they will be found described in the following pages . FIRST or MATSYA AVATAR . In this avatar Vishnu is VISHNU . 13.
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... usually described as a green man , seated beneath an umbrella , the emblem of sovereignty , on a throne : a quiver of arrows hangs at his back ; in one hand he holds his destructive bow , and in the other a flower of the sacred lotus ...
... usually described as a green man , seated beneath an umbrella , the emblem of sovereignty , on a throne : a quiver of arrows hangs at his back ; in one hand he holds his destructive bow , and in the other a flower of the sacred lotus ...
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... usually do , into his mouth every thing within his reach . At one time he ate * five hundred mistresses of Indra , the exemplary and chaste king of the heavens ; at another , the wives of one hundred sages , with cows and Brahmans ...
... usually do , into his mouth every thing within his reach . At one time he ate * five hundred mistresses of Indra , the exemplary and chaste king of the heavens ; at another , the wives of one hundred sages , with cows and Brahmans ...
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