The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

#Earth# (see Nritus).

#Gandharvas#:  KZ. i. 513; Meyer, Gandharven-Kentauren (list of Apsarasas); Pischel, VS. i. 78; Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, i. 427.

#Haritas# (sun’s steeds) as Charites, KZ. x. 96; ib. 365; Sonne, loc. cit. s.  S[=u]ryra; Mueller, Science of Language, ii. 388.

#Heaven# (see Dy[=a]us and Varuna).

#Indra# (etymology, Benfey, OO. i. 49; PW. sv.; andra, A.-Sax. ‘ent,’ ‘giant,’ BB. i. 342;[17]] nar, [Greek:  anor-, Jacobi, KZ. xxxi. 316; Indra’s bolt, vadha, ‘wetter,’ Delbrueck, KZ. xvi. 266):  Perry, Indra in the Rig Veda, JAOS. xi. 117 (see epic, below).

#K[=a]ma#:  Weber, ZDMG. xiv. 269, IS. v. 224, xvii. 290; Muir, v. 402.

#Manu#:[15] Roth, ZDMG. iv. 430; Weber, IS. i. 194 (’man and moon’), ZDMG. iv. 302; Muir, OST. i. 161; Kuhn, KZ. iv. 91; Burnouf, Preface of Bh[=a]g.  Pur[=a]na, p. iii; Ascoli (m[=a]nus, mactus), KZ. xvii. 334; Maspiter as ‘man,’ Corssen, KZ. ii. 32;[16] Manu’s wife, Weber, ZDMG. xviii. 286.  Compare also KZ. xii. 293, xix. 156, Mannus (see Laws, below).

#Maruts# (dubious etymology, Grassmann, KZ. xvi. 161; P. von Bradke, loc. cit. s..  Dy[=a]us):  von Bradke, Wunderliche Geburt, Festgruss an Roth, p. 117 (Brahmanic, same point of view in parody, RV. x. 102, ZDMG. xlvi. 445).  Hymns to Maruts, translated by Mueller, SBE. xxxii.

#Mitra#:  Windischmann, Abh.  K.M., 1857; Weber, IS. xvii. 212 (see Varuna).

#Namuci#:  Lanman, JAS. Beng. viii. 1889; Bloomfield, JAOS. xv. 143.

#Nritus# as Nerthus, Hoffmann; (Roth) Bruce, Vedic Conceptions of the Earth, JRAS. 1862, p. 321; Prithiv[=i], ZDMG. xli. 494.

#Parjanya#:  Buehler, Zur Mythologic des Rig Yeda, OO. i. 214; Hirt, 1F. i. 481, ’oak-god.’[4]

#Purandhi#:  Pischel, VS. i. 202; Hillebrandt, WZKM. iii. 188, 259; Colinet, BOR. ii. 245, iv. 121 (’abundance’), Congress, 1892.

#Pricni# (p[r.]cni) as Frigy, KZ. ii. 478; ‘freckles,’ KZ. xix. 438.

#P[=u]shan#:  Muir, OST. v. 171; Bergaigne, La Relig.  Ved. ii. 420; Hillebrandt, ved. myth., i. 456 (with soma); gubernatis, letture, p. 82 (as setting sun); pischel, vs. i. 11 (s[=u]ry[=a] and p[=u]shan); perry, notes on the vedic deity p[=u]shan, drisler memorial, p. 240.

#Ribhus# ([r.]bhavas, etymology, ‘alf,’ ‘Orpheus’; or Orpheus from [r.]gh, [Greek:  orchietai], Kuhn KZ. iv. 103; Wackernagel, KZ. xxiv. 297); Ludwig, iii. 187, as Seasons.  Neve, Etudes sur les hymnes (1842), and Essai sur le mythe des Ribhavas (1847, misleading, Ribhu as apotheosis).

#Rohitas#:  Henry (above).

#Rudra# (etymology, Pischel, VS. i. 57[18]):  Weber, Vedic Conception of, IS. ii. 19; Pischel, Vedica, ZDMG. xl. 120; Rudra’s mouse and Smintheus, KZ. iii. 335; Grohmann, Apollo Smintheus und die Bedeutung der Maeuse in der Mythologie der Indogermanen.

#Sarany[=u]# (sara[n.]y[=u]):  [Greek:  ertngis], ZDA. vi. 117; KZ. i. 439 (storm; riddle, ib. 440); Bloomfield, JAOS. xv. 172; as Dawn, Mueller, Lectures, Second Series; Saram[=a], and S[=a]rameyas as Hermeias, ib.; Aufrecht, ZDMG. xiii. 493 (RV. x. 108, translated).

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