Ouranos : Greek sky-god.
... grudgingly and attempt to give it as crude and primitive an appearance as possible, but the moral & supernatural functions of Varuna are undeniable. Yet Varuna is the Greek Ouranos, which is simply & plainly the sky, Akasha. Ouranos in Greek myth is a colourless presence, parent by his union with Earth, Akasha with Prithivi, of all beings but especially of Kronos & the Titans, the elder gods, the first... to suppose! That would be material enough and crude enough to satisfy the firmest believer in the intellectual crudity & semi-savagery of the Vedic Rishis. But let us leave aside the shadowy Greek Ouranos and look a little from our own standpoint at this mighty Vedic Varuna. We get our first mention of Varuna at the end of the second hymn in the Rigveda, the hymn of Madhuchchhandas in which he calls ...
... Bibliotheque de l'ecole des hautes etudes, 29th fascicle (F. Vieweg, Paris, 1877), pp. 67, 69. 493. Op. cit. , p. 15. 494. Op. cit., p. 75. Page 400 same word as the Greek Ouranos, though the identification presents some phonetic difficulties." Sri Aurobindo 495 has noted this apparent identification as well as the Puranic notion of Varuṇa as the deity of the waters. He points... that in the Rigveda Varuṇa should be specially endowed with Asurahood by deserving through his universal presence more markedly than any other deity to be named as a mighty lord. If the Greek Ouranos, in spite of the phonetic difficulty acknowledged by Macdonell, can still be conceived as by that scholar to bear some relation, however indirectly, to Varuṇa, then an antiquity in some seed-form may ...
... obtained results of Philology; for beyond one or two laws of a limited Page 29 application there is nowhere a sure basis. Yesterday we were all convinced that Varuna was identical with Ouranos, the Greek heaven; today this identity is denounced to us as a philological error; tomorrow it may be rehabilitated. Parame vyoman is a Vedic phrase which most of us would translate "in the highest ...
... 286 Old Iranian, 206, 207 Oldenberg, 376 Omarges/Amorges, see Amorges/Omarges onager, 160, 248, 249 oryza sativa (see also rice), 279 Ossetes, 210 Ouranos, 400-401, 403 Ovis vignei, 248 ox drawing a chariot, 252 humped, 248 Oxus (Amu Darya), 206, 270, 284-5, 321 Painted Grey Ware (PGW), 212, 238-41 ...
... Frontier, 63 Northerners, 1 Oldenberg, 110 Old High German, 90 Origins of Aryan Speech, The, 26fn. Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries, 107 Ouranos, 89 ovis vignei, 59 Oxford History of India, The, 4fn. Oxus, 77 Painted Grey Ware (PGW), 5, 6, 57, 98 Paippalada version, 87 Pali, 89, 103 Pandit, P ...
... foreign gods with their religion, the aruna (Varuṇa) of the Maryanni appears to be connected with the Hittite arunas (sea) and the latter to anticipate by its mythical associations the Greek Ouranos whose name, in turn, is almost identical with uruwana, the alternative to aruna. 13 We may add that arunas (sea) brings to mind also the Rigvedic phrase for the celestial upper waters, the ...
... that can apply neither to the descending rains nor to the physical ocean. Varuna in the Veda is not an Indian Neptune, neither is he precisely, as the European scholars at first imagined, the Greek Ouranos, the sky. He is the master of an ethereal wideness, an upper ocean, of the vastness of being, of its purity; in that vastness, it is elsewhere said, he has made paths in the pathless infinite along ...
... these astronomical fancies. Agni is plainly the God of Fire, Surya of the Sun, Usha of the Dawn, Vayu of the Wind; Indra for Sayana is obviously the god of rain; Varuna seems to be the sky, the Greek Ouranos,—et cetera. But when we have accepted these identities, the question of Vedic interpretation & the sense of Vedic worship is not settled. In the Greek religion Apollo was the god of the sun, but he ...
... by the very sound of this hero's patronymic "Vainya". Just as the Indian hill-fortress Varana becomes "Aornos" to Alexander's army and just as the Indian god-name "Varuna" is answered by the Greek "Ouranos", so too "Vainya" must have sounded to the Greek ear like the Greek "Oinos" (wine), "Oine" (vine), "Oenos" (vinter). We may remember that Dionysus, because of his art of crushing grapes in the wine-press ...
... Dr. J., 258 Omphis(Ambhi), 62.271 Ohesicritus, 146 Orissa, 485 Orodes, 201, 230 OSTN, 351 Page 634 Ossadioi or Assodioi, 425 Ouranos, 87 Ovid, 174 Oxus. 263, 455, 458, 459 Oxycanus, also called Porticanus, 63 Oxydrakai, 261 Ozéné, 476, 480.481, 520 Padmavati, 188, 189 Pahlavas, 530 Paijavana/Pijavana ...
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