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Definition of Dyaus-pitar
1. Noun. Hindu god of the sky.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyaus-pitar
Literary usage of Dyaus-pitar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1882)
"He is akin to the Vedic Dyaus, the Latin Jupiter (Dyaus-pitar, father Dyaus),
the Zio or Tyr of the Teutons. It often happens that the etymology of a word ..."
2. The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1895)
"He imagines that the epithet Asura was given to -Dyaus in the Indo-Iranian period,
and that from a Dyaus Pitar Asura the Iranians made an abstract Asura, ..."
3. Manual of Mythology: Greek and Roman, Norse and Old German, Hindoo and by Alexander Stuart Murrary (1897)
"The epithet, Dyaus pitar, is simply Zeus pater—Zeus the father; or, as it is
spelled in Latin, Jupiter. Another of his names, Janitor, is the Sanscrit for ..."
4. Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions: Being a Comparison of by Thomas William Doane (1882)
"And when, out of the forces and forms of nature, they afterwards fashioned other
gods, this name of Dyaus became Dyaus pitar, the Heaven-father, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Futhermore the earliest Indo-European conception of God is Dyaus Pitar, ie, the
heaven-father. Hence the idea of paternity is characteristic of their ..."
6. The Childhood of Religions: Embracing a Simple Account of the Birth and by Edward Clodd (1878)
"This word means what in the Veda Dyaus-pitar, and in the Greek Zeu-pater, mean—
Heaven-Father ! Professor Max Miiller, who has the rare gift of putting into ..."
7. Religion for To-day by Minot Judson Savage (1897)
"How many of you know that the Greek Zeus pater is simply the Greek equivalant of
the Sanscrit Dyaus pitar i How many of you know that the word Jupiter is ..."
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