Asiatic Researches, 第 8 巻John Murray, 1808 Vol. 2-3, 5-12 have lists of the members of the society. |
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
according ancient angles animal appear astronomers Benares BOUDHOU BRAHMA Bramins called Calpa Carangooly ceremony Ceylon chain chapter confiderable consecrated considered Curnatighur degree Deity derived distance dwipa earth Egypt eight essay feet fevers fhould fide fire fituated five fome four Gayal Goands gods Hindoo Hindoostanee Hindus holy India INDRA inhabitants islands king Kookies lake language latitude learned length lived lunar Mahratta manner Manwantara Maumdoor mean mentioned meridian Méru micrometer moon mountains Mullapode hill North oblations observed pandit Parah passage period Perumbauk hill Peshwa planets PLUTARCH Poonauk hill PRAJAPATI prayers priest PTOLEMY Puránas Rajah religion respect river round Sanscrit screw sect shew Siddhanta signifies Sir WILLIAM JONES sol-lunar South station supposed Súrya syllogism telescope thou Tibet tion tree triangle tribe Upanishad Véda village VISHNU West whole word worship Yojanas است ماهیت
人気のある引用
491 ページ - The beautiful simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great genius ; not completed by gradual improvements, but formed, to use the phrase of Italian critics, by the first •intention...
300 ページ - The bridegroom afterwards clothes the bride with the following ceremonies : — He goes to the principal apartment of the house, prepares a sacrificial fire in the usual mode, and hallows the implements of sacrifice. A friend of the bridegroom walks round the fire, bearing a jar of water, and stops on the south side of it : another does the same, and places himself on the right hand of the first. The bridegroom then casts four double handfuls of rice, mixed with leaves of...
302 ページ - She sits down on the edge of the mat; and the bridegroom offers six oblations of clarified butter, reciting the following prayers, while the bride touches his shoulder with her right hand. 1. "May fire come, first among the gods; may it " rescue her offspring from the fetters of death; may Varuna, "king [of waters], grant that this woman should never be"moan a calamity befalling her children.
246 ページ - May the Gods with flaming mouths burn this corpse!" He then walks thrice round the pile with his right hand towards it, and shifts the sacrificial cord to his right shoulder. Then looking towards the south, and dropping his left knee to the ground, he applies the fire to the pile near the head of the corpse, saying,
211 ページ - The studied brevity of the Pan inly a sutras renders them in the highest degree obscure; even with the knowledge of the key to their interpretation, the student finds them ambiguous. In the application of them, when understood, he discovers many seeming contradictions, and with every exertion of practised memory, he must experience the utmost difficulty in combining rules dispersed in apparent confusion through different portions of Panini's eight -^Lectures The apparent simplicity of the design...
308 ページ - Be gentle in thy aspect, and loyal to thy husband ; be fortunate in cattle ; amiable in thy mind, and beautiful in thy person ; be mother of surviving sons ; be assiduous at the five sacraments ; be cheerful, and bring prosperity to our bipeds and quadrupeds.
299 ページ - Being thus affianced , the bride and bridegroom then walk forth, while he thus addresses her: "May the regents of space, may air, the sun, and fire, dispel that anxiety which thou feelest in thy mind, and turn thy heart to me." He proceeds thus, while they look at each other: "Be gentle in thy aspect and loyal to thy husband; be fortunate in cattle, amiable in thy mind, and beautiful in thy person ; be mother of valiant sons; be fond of delights; be cheerful, and bring prosperity to our bipeds and...
294 ページ - The bride's father presents to him a cushion made of twenty leaves of cusa grass , holding it up with both hands , and exclaiming , " The cushion! the cushion! the cushion!" The bridegroom replies, "I accept the cushion," and, taking it, places it on the ground under his feet, while he recites the following prayer: "May those plants over which SOMA presides, and which are variously dispersed on the earth, incessantly grant me happiness while this cushion is placed under my feet.
251 ページ - thy knees, legs, and feet;" on the sixth, "all thy vitals;" on the seventh, "all thy veins;" on the eighth, "thy teeth, nails, and hair;" on the ninth, "thy manly strength;" on the tenth, "May. this tenth cake, which shall fully satisfy the hunger and thirst of thy renewed body, be acceptable to thee.
296 ページ - At the marriage ceremony, too, the bride is formally given by her father to the bridegroom, in this stage of the solemnity according to some rituals, but later according to others. The hospitable rites are then concluded by letting loose the cow at the intercession of the guest. A barber who attends for that purpose, exclaims, " The cow ! the cow!" upon which the guest pronounces this text : " Release the cow from the fetters of Varuna\ May she subdue my foe : may she destroy the enemies of both...