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- noun Hindu god of wealth and love
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The Sanskrit word bhaga means “six qualities or desirable things: wealth, strength, knowledge, beauty, fame, and renunciation” and combined with van, “one who possesses,” produces the Vedic word for the Supreme Person and Being—God.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The Sanskrit word bhaga means “six qualities or desirable things: wealth, strength, knowledge, beauty, fame, and renunciation” and combined with van, “one who possesses,” produces the Vedic word for the Supreme Person and Being—God.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The Sanskrit word bhaga means “six qualities or desirable things: wealth, strength, knowledge, beauty, fame, and renunciation” and combined with van, “one who possesses,” produces the Vedic word for the Supreme Person and Being—God.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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In them the Russian heroes are called bogatyr, a name that some believe to be derived from Bog (God), as if they were demigods; others believe that the term is derived from Tatar or Mongolian; and yet others from the Sanskrit (bhaga, force, happiness).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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As _bhaga_ is also an epithet of Savitar, the name may not stand for an originally distinct personality.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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We rather incline to doubt whether Bhaga was ever, strictly speaking, a sun-god, and think that he was made so merely because the sun (Savitar) was called _bhaga_.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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The two syllables bhaga indicate the six attributes -- dominion, strength, glory, splendour, wisdom, dispassion.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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It may be an epithet of other gods also, and here it means only luck.] [Footnote 45: Literally 'possessed of _bhaga,' i. e_., wealth.] [Footnote 46: May Bhaga be _bhágav [= a] n, i. e_., a true
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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