The Quarterly Review, Volume 177William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1893 |
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... Soma , or that there were in the ' Veda ' more than one Soma , was known and proclaimed by the Vedic poets themselves . They speak of one Soma whom everybody knows , namely the plant that yielded the intoxicating liquor , so highly ...
... Soma , or that there were in the ' Veda ' more than one Soma , was known and proclaimed by the Vedic poets themselves . They speak of one Soma whom everybody knows , namely the plant that yielded the intoxicating liquor , so highly ...
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... Soma , again , who originally was meant , like Indu , for the ambrosia contained in the moon , is repre- sented in other hymns as actually drinking the Soma , and thus gathering strength , like Indra , Brihaspati , and other allies of ...
... Soma , again , who originally was meant , like Indu , for the ambrosia contained in the moon , is repre- sented in other hymns as actually drinking the Soma , and thus gathering strength , like Indra , Brihaspati , and other allies of ...
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... Soma as moon , and unless we had discovered by means of etymology that the moon was called Soma on account of his pouring down the fertilizing rain on the parched earth ? We must not expect too much from etymology . Etymology can do no ...
... Soma as moon , and unless we had discovered by means of etymology that the moon was called Soma on account of his pouring down the fertilizing rain on the parched earth ? We must not expect too much from etymology . Etymology can do no ...
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Poème adressé à Adèle fille de Guillaume le Con | 73 |
H Pearson LL D late Fellow of Oriel College | 105 |
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