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Side 11
One special part of the purificatory rite following childbirth is to bring the mother
out and expose her to the rays of the sun . All through the range of popular belief
and folk - lore appears the idea that girls may be impregnated by the sun . Hence
...
One special part of the purificatory rite following childbirth is to bring the mother
out and expose her to the rays of the sun . All through the range of popular belief
and folk - lore appears the idea that girls may be impregnated by the sun . Hence
...
Side 22
Women expecting to be mothers are carefully kept awake, as they believe that
the security of the coming infant depends on the mother being kept from sleep.
They are not allowed to use a needle, scissors, knife, or any other instrument for
fear ...
Women expecting to be mothers are carefully kept awake, as they believe that
the security of the coming infant depends on the mother being kept from sleep.
They are not allowed to use a needle, scissors, knife, or any other instrument for
fear ...
Side 24
... represents the seven deified Rishis - Gautama , Bhâradwaja , Viswamitra ,
Jamadagni , Vashishtha , Kasyapa and Atri . Dhruva , the Pole Star , was the
grandson of Manu Swayambhuva , and was driven from his home by his step -
mother .
... represents the seven deified Rishis - Gautama , Bhâradwaja , Viswamitra ,
Jamadagni , Vashishtha , Kasyapa and Atri . Dhruva , the Pole Star , was the
grandson of Manu Swayambhuva , and was driven from his home by his step -
mother .
Side 25
his home by his step - mother . He , though a Kshatriya , joined the company of
the Rishis and was finally raised to the skies as Grahadhâra , “ the pivot of the
plants . " So Canopus is the Rishi Agastya who was perhaps one of the early
Aryan ...
his home by his step - mother . He , though a Kshatriya , joined the company of
the Rishis and was finally raised to the skies as Grahadhâra , “ the pivot of the
plants . " So Canopus is the Rishi Agastya who was perhaps one of the early
Aryan ...
Side 26
She is distinguished from Bhāmi, “the soil,” which, as we shall see, has a god of
its own, and from Prithivi, “the wide extended world,” which in the Vedas is
personified as the mother of all things, an idea common to all folk-lore. The myth
of ...
She is distinguished from Bhāmi, “the soil,” which, as we shall see, has a god of
its own, and from Prithivi, “the wide extended world,” which in the Vedas is
personified as the mother of all things, an idea common to all folk-lore. The myth
of ...
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Side 19 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Side 105 - ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled much misfortune bodes...
Side 166 - THE passing bell was anciently rung for two purposes ; one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage...
Side 12 - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," under " February" gave the following advice— " Sow peason and beans, in the wane of the moon, Who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soon, That they with the planet may rest and arise, And flourish, with bearing most plentiful! wise.
Side 66 - God.6 [They always go in a state of dirt and uncleanness, devoid of respect for themselves, or for those who see them, unwashed, unkempt, and sordidly attired.] These people also have a custom which I must tell you. If a man is condemned to death and executed by the lawful authority, they take his body and cook and eat it. But if any one die a natural death then they will not eat the...
Side 12 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismayed away. LORENZO. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage. JESSICA. In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Aeson.
Side 148 - The whole universe is subject to the gods; the gods are subject to the Mantras; the Mantras to the Brahmans; therefore the Brahmans are our gods V Often these Mantra-sastrls are mere fortune-tellers.
Side 170 - The people think that one man is thus singled out as a scapegoat for the sins of the rest of the village. In the temple of the Moon the Albanians of the Eastern Caucasus kept a number of sacred slaves, of whom many were inspired and prophesied. When one of these men exhibited more than usual symptoms of inspiration...
Side 178 - Racshases rend in pieces an obla' tion which has no such preservative. 205. ' Let an offering to the gods be made at the ' beginning and end of the srdddha : it must not begin ' and end with an offering to ancestors ; for he, who ' begins and ends it with an oblation to the Pitris, ' quickly perishes with his progeny.
Side 165 - ... noise they intended to make might not excite any alarm, and bring down upon them the visit of the soldiery. It was, however, subsequently determined, that the animal should be a goat ; and he was driven before the crowd accordingly. I have on several occasions been requested to allow of such noisy poojahs in cases of epidemics ; and the confidence the people feel in their efficacy has no doubt a good effect.