 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - 468 pages
...power who is the supreme soul. This universe, consisting of three worlds, was produced from water. " He first, with a thought, created the waters, " and placed in them a productive seed." (MENU, chap. iv8.) Water, which is the element whence the three worlds proceeded, is that light which... | |
 | 1837 - 558 pages
...reaioa, tad undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : I < I 6. That teed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams; anil in tliat egg he was born himself, in the form of BRAHMA, the great forefather of all spirits.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 pages
...— 11 He — the Soul of all beings — having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first, with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. " The waters are called nara; because they were the production of Nara, or the Spirit of God : and, since... | |
 | 1840 - 652 pages
...Brahma was permanent, immaterial. however inferior they may now appear to beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. S. 9.—That seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like a luminary with a thousand beams, and... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1841 - 652 pages
...undiminished glory dispelling the gloom." " He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a pro- CHAP. ductive seed."" IXFrom this seed sprung the mundane egg, in which the Supreme Being was... | |
 | William Ellis - 1831 - 446 pages
...account is, that " He (ie the divine Being) having willed to produce various beings from his own Divine substance, first, with a thought, created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. That seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams, and in that... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1842 - 464 pages
...or Eve is the only aboriginal part of the story, as far as it respects the mother of the human race. substance, first, with a thought, created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. That seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams, and in that... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pages
...comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed : that seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and in... | |
 | 1845 - 378 pages
...of their god. The Bramins say, that he having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first, with a thought, created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. That seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams, and in that... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1850 - 172 pages
...Chap. I, verses 8 and 9. "He (Brahma) having willed to produce various beings, from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed : That seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams (the Sun)... | |
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He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed... 
