| Sir John William Dawson - 1860 - 466 pages
...Brahma the forefather of spirits. " The waters are called Nara because they are the production of Nara the spirit of God, and since they were his first Ayana or place of motion, he thence is named No/ray ana or moving on the waters. In the egg Brahma remained a year, and caused the... | |
| Mrs. John B. Speid - 1862 - 382 pages
...coincidence with Genesis i. verse 2 : " The waters are called Nara because they were the production of the spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or moving on the waters." A name which, as belonging to the one Supreme,... | |
| 1864 - 534 pages
...without beginning or end, was produced the divine male, famed in all worlds as Brahma. (12.) In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the...thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself; (13.) and from its two divisions, he framed the heaven above, and the earth beneath ; in the midst... | |
| Fitzedward Hall - 1864 - 388 pages
...rendered, by Sir Wm. Jones: "The waters are called narafi , because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of god; and, since they were his first ayana , or place of motion, he thence is named Narayaria, or moving on the waters." Now, although there can be little doubt that this... | |
| Manu, Graves Champney Haughton - 1869 - 366 pages
...forefather of all spirits. 10. The waters are called ncird, because they were the production of NARA, or the spirit of GOD ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named NA'RA'TANA, or moving on the waters. 11. From THAT WHICH is, the first cause, not the... | |
| Richard Taylor - 1870 - 786 pages
...Menu," closely resembles that of the Mao'ri : " In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year, at the close of which, by his thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself, and from the two divisions he framed the heaven and the earth, in the midst, the subtle ether, the... | |
| Ebenezer Burgess - 1871 - 510 pages
...without beginning or end, was produced the divine male, famed in all the worlds as Brahma. In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the...thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself, and from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the earth beneath ; in the midst he placed... | |
| Ebenezer Burgess - 1871 - 444 pages
...without beginning or end, was produced the" divine male, famed in all the worlds as Brahma. In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the...thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself, and from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the earth beneath ; in the midst he placed... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 548 pages
...his first ayana, or place of motion ; he hence is named Nara yana, or moving on the waters. " In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the...thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself. " And from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the earth beneath; in the midst he placed... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 544 pages
...his first ayana, or place of motion ; he hence is named Nara yana, or moving on the waters. " In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the...creator, at the close of which, by his thought alone, ho caused the egg to divide itself. " And from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the... | |
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