Sentence examples for indian text from inspiring English sources
It is a quote from the ancient Indian text, the Bhagavad Gita.
This inference is corroborated by an Indian text in which Mitra reluctantly participates in the sacrifice of a god named Soma, who often appears in the shape of a white bull or of the moon.
In the Norse Prose Edda, the cosmos is formed from the body of the dismembered great Ymir, and, in the Rigveda, the oldest Indian text, the cosmos is a result of the primordial sacrifice of a man, the purusha.
You know, I wore a long white gown, but I grew up going to hippie weddings, where the bride was in a tank top and the sister read some verses of sacred Indian text".
The varnas have been known since a hymn in the Rigveda (the oldest surviving Indian text) that portrays the Brahman (priest), the Kshatriya (noble), the Vaishya (commoner), and the Shudra (servant) issued forth at creation from the mouth, arms, thighs, and feet of the primeval person (purusha).
Water contamination has a long presence in human history, with descriptions in the Sushruta Samshita about water-borne diseases resembling cholera in an Indian text written in Sanskrit as early as 500 400 B.C. (Colwell [1996]).
VENTUREBEAT India's Answer to Twitter Hits Milestones | The Indian text-based microblogging service SMS GupShup, which boasts 50 million users on the subcontinent, said it had raised $10 million in its fifth round of venture capital fund-raising, bringing its total valuation to $218 million.
Scholar/translator David Shulman is part of the Classical Library team, and, along with Pollock, has done much in the last three decades to bring Indian texts to a new readership.
Butler deëmphasized age-old Indian texts and practices, presenting himself instead as a smart and curious guy who had figured out the answers to some very puzzling questions.
"One could be sitting at Eliot's desk, with his crucifix on the wall, his books around you, his editions of Aristotle or of Indian texts.
Even so, Butler was awed by Bhaktivedanta, who had a knack for making ancient Indian texts sound like sensible instruction manuals.
