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Example sentences for "yana"

Lexicographically close words:
yallow; yamen; yammer; yammering; yams; yance; yander; yang; yanked; yanking
  1. Footnote 466: Ekâyana is mentioned several times in the Chândogya Up.

  2. He goes on to say that his teaching is that of the Upanishads, "which was obscured by the mutual conflict of manifold opinions," and that he follows the commentary of Bodhâyana and other teachers who have abridged it.

  3. This striking image occurs first in the Maitrâyana Upanishad (VI.

  4. He appears to be the Arhat Maudgalyâyana deified.

  5. Nârâyana holding up Goburdhan and a Cambojan inscription of Prea Eynkosey (970 A.

  6. His Râmâyana which is an original composition and not a translation of Vâlmîki's work is one of the great religious poems of the world and not unworthy to be set beside Paradise Lost.

  7. The literal interpretation of this portion of the Rámáyana is indeed deeply rooted in the mind of the Hindu.

  8. On Schalarof's chart, the coast from the Yana to Cape Shelagskoi is laid down with an accuracy that does honour to its author.

  9. Poultry does not exist, the Yana yields few fish, and the soil stubbornly refuses to produce vegetables even of the hardiest kind.

  10. The worst season of the year is in autumn, when dense mists from the river Yana often shroud the place for days together.

  11. Shortly after leaving Aditscha, we crossed the river of that name, which flows into the Yana below Verkhoyansk.

  12. In a former existence, he and Maudgalyâyana had prayed that they might sit, the one on the right hand and the other on the left.

  13. The gateway of the Maha-yana is also the doctrine, by which in addition to the trainings mentioned, there are also understood the three virtues of spiritual body, wisdom and deliverance.

  14. In the Maha-yana also there are two gates; the Holy path, and the Pure Land.

  15. Also that vidvân who dies during the dakshi/n/âyana reaches Brahman.

  16. Yana placed on the table a tureen of cabbage and bacon soup, the smell of which would have aroused the appetite of the dead.

  17. Yana sat beside him; Lion ran on in advance.

  18. Yana too looked sad now, and pretended that it was the dust which caused her to wipe her eyes continually with her handkerchief.

  19. This time Yana no longer tried to hide her tears.

  20. Yana held a prescription in her hand, which had been written that morning.

  21. Why did Yana look at him respectfully but sullenly?

  22. The teacher Bâdarâyana is of opinion that even thus, i.

  23. Bâdarâyana is of opinion that the deities lead those not depending on symbols, i.

  24. Next the teacher Bâdarâyana determines the question by propounding his own view.

  25. Such meditation is possible in the case of higher beings also Bâdarâyana thinks; on account of the possibility of want and capacity on their part also.

  26. For a complementary clause in the Mahânârâyana Up.

  27. Yana Texts, by Edward Sapir, together with Yana Myths collected by Roland B.

  28. The fourth is a new introduction, namely that of rasâyana or alchemy.

  29. This assumption is justified when [Footnote 1: Vâtsyâyana notes that this is the salvation of him who has known Brahman, IV.

  30. Footnote 3: Vâtsyâyana wants to emphasise that there is no bliss in salvation, but only cessation from pain.

  31. In fact the teachers of the Maha-yana school were not slow to perceive that, if Buddhism was to gain any hold over the masses, it was essential that it should adapt itself to their human needs.

  32. How then did the teachers of the Maha-yana proceed to amplify this doctrine?

  33. That his worship was very prevalent among Buddhists of the Maha-yana School all over India, as well as in Tibet, from the fourth to the seventh century, is attested also by Hiouen Thsang.

  34. Indeed, the popularity of his worship is one of the chief characteristics of the Maha-yana system, and is not confined to Tibet, though he is believed to be the special patron of that country.

  35. It should be observed, too, that an important addition to the Maha-yana doctrine was made in certain Northern countries about the tenth century of our era.

  36. They are now more or less prevalent in Burma and Ceylon, which have adopted much of the Maha-yana system, and to these countries we must give our first attention.

  37. Similarly Pakudha Kaccâyana states that "when a sharp sword cleaves a head in twain" the soul and pain play a part similar to that played by the component elements of the sword and head.

  38. He adds that it is not determined which of the four should be grouped with the Mâhâyana and which with the Hînayâna, that distinction being probably later in origin.

  39. The Hina-yana did not trouble itself with metaphysical speculation; that was reserved for the Maha-yana, and Kukai was the greatest Japanese teacher of the arcana of Buddhism.

  40. The Hina-yana Sutra is intended for beginners; the Maha-yana for those more advanced in the path of the law.

  41. Yana whispered, "See, the signal fires are lighted!

  42. Yana held the Yellow Iris With the Magic in its petals, Held and gazed with adoration On the velvet mystic markings.

  43. Sâyana generally alludes very briefly only to these works and presupposes that they are known to us, so that a short reference would suffice for his purposes.

  44. Sâyana quotes a number of Sanskrit works which, at the time when I began my edition, had not yet been edited.

  45. How often was I in perfect despair, because there was some allusion in Sâyana which I could not make out, and which no other Sanskrit scholar, not even Burnouf or Wilson, could help me to clear up.

  46. By placing one end of his bow at the corner of his open mouth and tapping the string with an arrow, the Yana could make sweet music.

  47. An accurate account of these days may be obtained from Watterman's paper on the Yana Indians.

  48. Different from the other tribes of this territory, the Yana would not submit without a struggle to the white man's conquest of their lands.

  49. Only a few nations ever used this type of arrow release, and the Yana seem to have been the only American natives to do so.

  50. At any rate, it is here that the Yana directed their shots.

  51. Ishi, the Yana Indian, said that grizzlies were to be overcome with arrows and if they charged, they were to be met with the spear and fire.

  52. So it came to pass, that from two or three thousand people, the Yana were reduced to less than a dozen who escaped extermination.

  53. The Yana were smaller of stature, lithe, of reddish bronze complexion, and instead of being diggers of roots, they lived by the salmon spear and the bow.

  54. Venturing upon this lost language, Watterman spoke in Yana the words, Siwini, which means pine wood, tapping at the same time the edge of the cot on which they sat.

  55. To test his ability one afternoon while hunting deer, I asked the Yana to try his call in twelve separate locations.

  56. His father, once the chieftain of the Yana tribe, having domain over all the country immediately south of Mt.

  57. Through good fortune, some of the Yana vocabulary had been preserved in the records of the University.

  58. On it is inscribed "Ishi, the last Yana Indian, 1916.

  59. The black variety Yana chinca is called by the Spaniards Tigre or Yaguar.

  60. The yana chinca holds a prominent place in the religious ceremonies of some of the Indian races.

  61. In some parts of the Montaña the Cephalopterus ornatus is called Yana Tunqui.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.