59 ] The Bengali edition reads this sloka differently.—T. [ 60 ] The eight Vasus , eleven Rudras , twelve Adityas and two Acwins .—T
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki
From the manuscript Dr. Furnivall extracted various entries relating to Harrison’s own time, which are of most picturesque quality if of rather meagre quantity.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
The gods are occasionally thirty-four in number, eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve [=A]dityas, heaven and earth, and Praj[=a]pati as the thirty-fourth; but this Praj[=a]pati is the All and Everything ( Çat.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
Laudant, vituperant, sine delectu, sine discrimine, judicio aut modo, nunc principes, nunc plebeios, doctos juxta atque indoctos, probos an improbos perindè habent; prout cantharus, aut spes nummuli, aut fatuus ille furor inflat ac rapit; congestis undique et verborum et rerum tot discoloribus ineptiis tamque putidis, ut laudatum longè praestet sileri, et pravo, quod aiunt,
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd
[204] (who is of the opinion that the existing vertebrate eyes represent the paired eyes of a hypothetical annelid precursor); still both opinions are fully reconcilable through the results of study of the ascidian and lancelet eye collated with cyclopian and triophthalmic (three-eyed) degeneracies in man, the human eye and the third eye of reptiles like the hatteria of New Zealand.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot
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