| Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1858 - 364 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. iv 8-) Water, which is the element whence the three worlds proceeded, is that light which... | |
| 1861 - 924 pages
...to this author, "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 ; that seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing, like the luminary, with a thousand beams; and in... | |
| 1861 - 922 pages
...this author, " 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 ; that seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing, like the luminary, with a thousand beams; and in... | |
| John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...account of creation. In Menu translated by Sir W. Jones, we find the following passage:—" He" (Brahm) " 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... | |
| Joseph J. Reed - 1862 - 196 pages
...substance and the form of all created beings were derived from the substance of the self-existing cause. He first, with a thought, created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. From this seed sprung the egg in which he was born in the form of Brahma. He then produced the heavens,... | |
| Charles Hardwick - 1863 - 408 pages
...can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings/rom His own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed,' &c. 1 For instance, they have tried to evolve the principal dogmas of the Ve'danta philosophy, on the... | |
| 1864 - 534 pages
...eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. (8.) He having willed to produce various beings from his...the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. (9.) The seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and... | |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1866 - 866 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 productive seed." u From this seed sprung the mundane egg, in which the Supreme Being was himself born in the form of... | |
| Manu, Graves Champney Haughton - 1869 - 366 pages
...comprehend, shone forth in person. 8. 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 : 9. The seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and in... | |
| James Burgess - 1871 - 114 pages
...the creation : " This universe," he says, " 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. I. v. 8.) Water, which ii the element whence the three worlds proceeded, is that light... | |
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