Glossarium sanscritum: in quo omnes radices et vocabula usitatissima explicantur et cum vocabulis graecis, latinis, germanicis, lithuanicis, slavicis, celticisLibraria Dümmleriana (Grube & Harrwitz), 1847 - 412 pages |
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Page 133 - ... he wears a crescent. His hair is clotted together, and brought over the head so as to project like a horn from the forehead. On his head he carries the Ganges, whose course he intercepted by his hair, when this river descended from heaven, so as to enable the earth to bear its fall...
Page 109 - Lass. 65. 6.: фН^Л! (Huc tra" xerim lat. gil-vus cum / pro r, ejecto u diphthong! аи, et (*) Wils. ,,A bright yellow pigment prepared from the urine of a cow or vomited in the shape of...
Page 24 - Swerga or paradise. It appears to have been originally typical; the horse and other animals being simply bound during the performance of certain ceremonies; the actual sacrifice is an introduction of a later period).
Page 256 - A huge amphibious monster, usually taken to be the shark or crocodile, but depicted in the signs of the Zodiac with the head and forelegs of an antelope, and the body and tail of a fish. It is the ensign of the god of love.
Page 213 - Wilsonus explicat: l) a knot, a joint in a cane or body tic. 2) a name given to certain days in the lunar month, as the full and change of the moon and the 6th, Sth and 10th of each half month.
Page 24 - Eight parts of the body ; the hands, breast, forehead, eyes, throat, and middle of the back: or four first, with the knees and feet : or these six, with the words and mind.
Page 398 - A religious rite, preparatory to any important observance, in which the Brahmuns strew boiled rice on the ground, and invoke the blessings of the gods on the ceremony about to commence.
Page 30 - Adityas, twelve in number, are forms of the sun, and appear to represent him as distinct in each month of the year. The...
Page 66 - Kambu-gritcd, g, neck marked with three lines like a shell, and considered to be indicative of exalted fortune; sign of great beauty.
Page 379 - A separation of the hair on each side, so as to leave a distinct line on the top of the head.