 | William Tighe - 1808 - 182 sivua
...to have been originally derived from the Indian Maya, who is explained, by the Hindus, to signify, " the first inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself, by creating worlds ;" and whose offspring was Cama, or Love. — Thus, she resembles the Alma Vcnus of Lucretius, though,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1811 - 342 sivua
...Apollo of the Hindoos. KHANSAMAN. Land, or house-steward. LACKSHMI, or LACSHMI. The consort of Veeshnu. She, like the other Hindoo Goddesses, is distinguished...Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the " Vedanta Philosophy, where it signifies the system of " perceptions." — See Asiatic Researches.... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1816 - 548 sivua
...clearly arisen from the doctrine of successive similar mundane systems, that by Maya we are to understand the first inclination of the godhead to diversify himself by creating worlds : and Sir William Jones was told by a Cashmirian, that Maya herself is the mother of universal nature... | |
 | William Ward - 1817 - 424 sivua
...were the only things united to birth. ° ' Or,' as the word is explained by some Hindoo scholars, ' the first Inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself, by creating worlds.' Sir W. Jones. i' It is called delusion, or appearance, to shew, that it is something assumed for an... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1819 - 302 sivua
...Appollo of the Hindoos. KHANSAMAN. Land, or house steward. LACKSHHI, or LACSHHI. The consort of Veeshnu. She, like the other Hindoo Goddesses, is distinguished...first inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself ty creating rmrldi." ' But the word Maya, or Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 sivua
...Gods; as a Cashmirian informed me, when I asked him why C•ima, or Love, was representi d as her Son; but the word Maya, or Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the Ve'danti philosophy, where it signifies the system of perceptions, whether of secondary or primary... | |
 | Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - 1842 - 518 sivua
...the original productive seed."—From the Rig-veda, by Colebrook, AR viii. 404. 2 " The Indian Maya, the first inclination of the Godhead to diversify Himself by creating worlds, is feigned to be the Mother of universal Nature."—Id. p. 230. 4 " Originally this universe was indeed... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1999 - 344 sivua
...The consort of Veeshnû. She, like the other MAYA. Explained by some Hindoo scholars to be "theßrst inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself by...Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the Vedanta Philosophy, where it signifies the system of perceptions." — See Asiatic Researches. 1 MAHABBARET.... | |
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She, like the other Hindoo Goddesses, is distinguished by a variety of names ; as Lackshmi, she is the Goddess of Fortune: as Sree, the Goddess of Plenty, or Hindoo Ceres. MAYA. Explained by some Hindoo scholars to be " the. first inclination of the Godhead... 