"Purana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wood-paths wet you with dew up to your middle. The leaves of the shrub-oak are shining as if a liquid were flowing over them. The pools seen through the trees are as full of light as the sky. "The light of the day takes refuge in their bosoms," as the Purana says of the ocean. All white objects are more remarkable than by day. A distant cliff looks like a phosphorescent space on a hill-side. The woods are heavy and dark. Nature slumbers. You see the moonlight reflected from particular stumps in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various
... mist,—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist. The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the law-maker. "That is active duty," says the Vishnu Purana, "which is not for our bondage; that is knowledge which is for our liberation: all other duty is good only unto weariness; all other knowledge is only the cleverness ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various
... chambers and accessible only to privileged persons. Libations were poured over the emblem and sacred books were recited. An interesting inscription[292] of about 600 A.D. relates how Srisomasarman (probably a Brahman) presented to a temple "the Ramayana, the Purana and complete Bharata" and made arrangements for their recitation. Sanskrit literature was held in esteem. We are told that Suryavarman I was versed in the Atharva-Veda and also in the Bhashya, Kavyas, the six Darsanas, and the Dharmasastras.[293] Sacrifices are also frequently mentioned and ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... amongst them, was the great-grandson of Chandagutto, a prince whose name thus recorded in the Mahawanso[1] (notwithstanding a chronological discrepancy of about sixty years), may with little difficulty be identified with the "Chandragupta" of the Hindu Purana, and ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent |
