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Parjanya   Listen
proper noun
Parjanya  n.  
1.
(Hinduism) The Hindu god of rain; sometimes identified with Indra.






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"Parjanya" Quotes from Famous Books



... air. For, he says, this whole world trembles, abiding within air with its five forms—which is here called pra/n/a—and the terrible thunderbolts also spring from air (or wind) as their cause. For in the air, people say, when it manifests itself in the form of Parjanya, lightning, thunder, rain, and thunderbolts manifest themselves.—Through the knowledge of that air immortality also can be obtained; for another scriptural passage says, 'Air is everything by itself, ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 • George Thibaut



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