Hindu Mitolojisi
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You can find Hindu Mitolojisi quotes, Hindu Mitolojisi book quotes, the most impressive sentences and paragraphs on 1000Kitap.Dharma (social law), artha (success or wealth), and kāma (sensual pleasure) formed the triad of goals in ancient India, to which a fourth goal – moks ̣a , release – was later added.
When the night was swallowed by darkness and swarmed with bands of ghosts, she danced and laughed and shone against the darkness. This dreadful female in the sky drank from an enormous cup and laughed a great laugh and spoke in fury to Kamsa: ‘Kamsa, Kamsa, since you attacked me to destroy me, hurling me down upon the stone, therefore at your death, when you are overpowered by your enemy, I will smash your body with my own hands and drink your warm blood.’
When Brahmā was thus concentrated, desiring to create, the quality of darkness became manifest in him, and first the demons were born from his thigh. Brahmā then abandoned his own body which had the quality of darkness, and that body which he had abandoned became night. Still desiring to create, he took another body and found pleasure; then the gods, in whom the quality of goodness was predominant, were born from the mouth of Brahmā. He abandoned that body too, and it became the day, in which the quality of goodness is paramount; therefore at night the demons are powerful, and by day the gods.
When Bhrigu, the tiger among sages, saw him he was filled with anger, and he stamped with his left foot upon the glorious breast of Vishņu. The lord arose quickly and said joyfully, ‘I am grateful to you,’ and he rejoiced and pressed the sage’s foot with his two hands and rubbed his foot gently.