 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1878 - 422 pages
...translation of the RigVeda, ' Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite, not the Infinite as the result...the sky. That was called A-diti, the unbound, the un1 ' Rig-Veda Sanhita p. 230. bounded ; one might almost say, but for fear of misunderstandings, the... | |
 | Engelbert Lorenz Fischer - 1878 - 374 pages
...god or goddes; is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite, not the Infinite äs the result of a long process of abstract reasoning,...the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the end1) In späterer Zeit wächst ihre Zahl zu 12 an. Allein »die spätere 12-Zahl kann für die alte... | |
 | John Dowson - 1870 - 452 pages
...unbounded.' Infinity ; the boundless heaven as compared with the finite earth ; or, according to M. Miiller, "the visible infinite, visible by the naked eye; the...beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky." In the .Big-veda she is frequently implored " for blessings on children and cattle, for protection... | |
 | Albrecht Friedrich Weber - 1879 - 678 pages
...wenn auch wohl ursprünglich, um mit Miiller's Worten zu reden, wirklich: „the visible infinite, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky" zu Grunde liegen mag. So aufgefafst eignet sich denn Aditi auch vortrefflich als Mutter der Aditya,... | |
 | Mahadev Moreshwar Kunte - 1880 - 646 pages
...Rig- Veda, 1. 2, 30.): — "Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the infinite; not the infinite as the result...beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky." "We find it rather hard to realize the exact sense of this passage. What is the nature of the process... | |
 | Adolf Kaegi - 1881 - 286 pages
...Varuna's siehe S. 92 und Anm. 255J Aditi mag als Gottheit, als Personification of ,the visiblc Infinite, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky' (Müller, Translation 1, 230) gedacht jünger sein denn Varuna, Bhaga, Mitra und Arjaman; aber die... | |
 | 1884 - 476 pages
...Daksha. Roth says that Daksha means spiritual power and Aditi eternity. Max Miiller says: " Aditi is the visible infinite, visible by the naked eye, The endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the sky." Muir says she is " a personification of universal allembracing nature;" others say she is the... | |
 | Adolf Kaegi - 1886 - 216 pages
...p. 67 and Note 255.) Aditi, viewed as a divinity, as the personification of ' the visible Infinite, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky' (Miiller, Translation 1, 230) may be younger than Varuna, Bhaga, Mitra, and Aryaman; but the group... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 732 pages
...Scriptures. In the Rig Veda, Aditi, " The Boundless " or infinite Space, translated by Mr. Max Miiller, " the visible infinite, visible by the naked eye (!...beyond the Earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky," is the equivalent of " Mother-Space " coeval with " Darkness." She is very properly called " The Mother... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - 1895 - 502 pages
...the master's most exquisite and brilliant pages : " Aditi is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite, not the Infinite as the result...beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. The idea of the Infinite was revealed, was most powerfully impressed on the awakening mind by the East.... | |
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Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse, beyond... 
