This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...it is the Old Dawn--the evening gloaming--who runs the same dangers, undergoes the same infirmities and decay, and is led forth, rejuvenated and radiant, by her ever youthful brothers. They are best men at weddings, protectors of love and marriage, because they bring the Dawn-bride before the face of her Sunlover, or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...it is the Old Dawn--the evening gloaming--who runs the same dangers, undergoes the same infirmities and decay, and is led forth, rejuvenated and radiant, by her ever youthful brothers. They are best men at weddings, protectors of love and marriage, because they bring the Dawn-bride before the face of her Sunlover, or reunite the separated lovers. On one occasion, indeed, Ushas is said to have mounted on the Ashvins' car--(was it not on the memorable occasion when her own was shattered by the ungallant Indra?)--and to have chosen them for her husbands.--They are rescuers from stormy waters, because night is a dark and stormy waste of waters, full of dangers and monsters, into which the wornout Sun fatally sinks, and in which he might perish, did not the ever helpful heralds of Light take him into their swiftly flying ship and carry him safely across to the other--the bright--shore, from which he rises aloft, in fully restored vigor and splendor.--And will not those who do all these kindly offices, who work these miracles for gods, do the same for suppliant men? We know that every myth ends by coming down to earth and being humanized. It will strike every one how many and varied stories could and must have been spun out of this peculiarly attractive and prolific myth of the Ashvins. 37. We cannot close the gallery of the Vcdic Beings of Light without devoting a few lines to one who, though holding a rather modest rank, shares in their honors, and is always affectionately and reverently remembered. We mean POsilAN, pre-eminently a friend of men, and whose career is one of almost homely usefulness. The great French Vedic scholar, A. Bergaigne, sums it up in one brief page, so lucid and comprehensive, that we cannot do better than reproduce it: "Piishan is, ...
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Octavo. xii, 457pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations in brown and black. Light wear to covers otherwise very good indeed with excellent contents. No jacket. 1899 2nd edition.
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