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The potter is sometimes known as Prajapati or the 'The Creator,' in accordance with the favourite comparison made by ancient writers of the moulding of his pots with the creation of human beings, the justice of which will be recognised by any one who watches the masses of mud on a whirling wheel growing into shapely vessels in the potter's creating hands.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Endued with mighty energy, He first creates Consciousness and that Great Being called Prajapati endued with Consciousness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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He is said to be having 34 utterances including Prajapati (Pridvi).
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Prajapati was aunt and nurse of Sakyamuni, the first woman admitted to the monkhood, and the first superior of the first Buddhistic convent.
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See the long account of Prajapati in M. B., pp. 306-315.
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A similar passage in a later book, the _T [= a] ndya Br [= a] hmanas_, declares that "the Lord of creatures, Prajapati, offered himself a sacrifice for the devas"
New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison
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Of the parallelism between the self-sacrificing Prajapati, Lord of creatures, and the Second Person in the Christian Trinity, propitiator and agent in creation, we may hear
New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison
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Those who without idleness perform acts with expectations, being full of egoism, approach the presence of Prajapati.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Prajapati was aunt and nurse of Sakyamuni, the first woman admitted to the monkhood, and the first superior of the first Buddhistic convent.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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See the long account of Prajapati in M. B., pp. 306-315.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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