Prometheus: 2 definitions
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Prometheus means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: The Greek Myths, Vol.1: Atlas and PrometheusPrometheus (Προμηθεύς) from Greek mythology.—Prometheus’s name, ‘forethought’, may originate a Greek misunderstanding of the Sanskrit word pramantha, the swastika, or fire-drill, which he had supposedly invented. The brothers Pramanthu and Manthu,who occur in the Bhagavata Purana, a Sanskrit epic, may be prototypes of Prometheus and Epimetheus (‘afterthought’).
Source: Myths of Greece and Rome: Analysis of MythsPrometheus, whose name has been traced to the Sanskrit pramantha (or “fire drill”). Learned men have therefore proved that the “beneficent Titan, who stole fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mankind as the richest of boons,” was originally nothing but the lightning (“the celestial drill which churns fire out of the clouds”); but the Greeks had so entirely forgotten this etymological meaning, that they interpreted his name as the “fore-thinker,” and considered him endowed with extraordinary prophetic powers.
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Full-text: Matarisvan, Epimetheus, Pramantha, Agni.
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Promethius Bound < [January – March, 1999]
Dr. D.V. Gundappa -Many-faceted man of < [October – December, 1988]
The Concept of Tragedy < [July – September, 1983]
Dasarupaka (critical study) (by Anuru Ranjan Mishra)
Introduction to the Nāṭaka type of Drama < [Chapter 1 - Nāṭaka (critical study)]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Appendix 3.1 - Sneezing Salutations < [Appendices]
The Chaldean account of Genesis (by George Smith)
Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita (by Nayana Sharma)
The Question of Authorship < [Chapter 1]
Anāgārika Dharmapāla (by Bhikkhu Sangharakshita)