Parjanya : Vedic god of Rain; also an Aditya, & god of the constellation Kumbha.
... also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) the Girl, Yama (Hades) the Balance, Aryama (Ares) the Scorpion, Mitra or Bhava (Apollo Phoebus) the Archer, Saraswati called also Ganga (Nais) the Crocodile, Parjanya (Apis) the Jar, Nara (Nereus) the Fish. All these gods have their own character and tend to imprint it on their protégé. Or it would be truer to say, that men of particular characters tend to take ...
... physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu,master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities,—Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; ...
... rain. Your magic, Mitra-Varuṇa, resteth in the heaven. The Sun, the wondrous weapon, cometh forth as light. Ye hide him in the sky with cloud and flood of rain, and water-drops, Parjanya! full of sweetness flow. With an imaginative response to the exalted language with its vivid terms and the open clue in the word "immortality" and the subsequent suggestion of a plenary Truth ...
... Unwittingly, Lord, sail for thine one Shore.' __________________ ' Sarva eva yajanti twam Sarvadeva-Maheshwwaram Ye pyanyadevatabhakta yadyapyanyadhiyah h Prabho Yathadriprabava nadyah parjanya-puritah prarabho Vishanthi sarvatah Sindhum tadvat twam gatatayontatah. The Bhagavat, 10.10. Page 231 ...
... प्रभूतमन्नं प्रदातुमिच्छन्तु । Rendering—May Agni, destroyer of coverings (trees etc), widely who goes abroad, intoxicate us & may the wind that is rainer of the waters intoxicate us; O Indra & Parjanya, do you make us sharp; therefore (because we praise) may the all gods be willing to give us plenty of food. (2) May he the wide-pervading who destroyeth all coverings be full of rapture in us; ...
... physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, Master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities,—Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; ...
... proceeds to the internal,—a worship of outward Nature-Powers invested with the consciousness and the personality that he finds in his own being. Agni in the Veda is avowedly Fire; Surya is the Sun, Parjanya the Raincloud, Usha the Dawn; and if the material origin or function of some other Gods is less trenchantly clear, it is easy to render the obscure precise by philological inferences or ingenious ...
... may the two Stones (mind & body) be yoked to their work, that are the mould of the material of sacrifice. ब्रह्माणः. The Brahmanaspatis as priests of the inner sacrifice. क्रदनुः either Indra or Parjanya. पेशः distinguished form —from पिश् to separate, distinguish .. or पिष् to crush, mould, shape. (2) सनवित्त चिरलब्ध. This establishes the sense of सानः in ऋषि - सानः etc. Easy of going & securely ...
... and bears it upward through level after higher level until it reaches a proximity to and even an identity with the Supreme, in the very home of the gods. But Agni has an assistant and counterpart in Parjanya, the Rain-God. The work of this godhead is to help in the descent, the bringing down of the waters of heaven, as in a downpour of rain. To establish here on this earth what has risen to the heights ...
... O Earth, that which is thy middle, that which is thy navel, and those lofty formations of thine, establish them in us. Flow towards us, O Mother Earth; I am the son of the Earth, the God Rain (Parjanya) is my father, may he bring fulfilment to us. Page 40 (13) There on a high ground the universal workers stand encircling the altar, there they conduct the sacrifice; there ...
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