Definition of Brihaspati

1. Noun. Personification of the power of ritual devotion.

Generic synonyms: Hindu Deity

Definition of Brihaspati

1. Proper noun. (Hinduism) The name of the priest of the Gods. ¹

2. Proper noun. The planet Jupiter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brihaspati

Brigadoon
Brigadoons
Brigate Rosse
Brigg's test
Briggs
Brigham Young
Bright
Bright's disease
Brigid
Brigit
Brigit Nilsson
Brigitte Bardot
Brignac
Brignacs
Brihaspati (current term)
Brill
Brill's disease
Brill-Symmers disease
Brill-Zinsser disease
Brimacombe fragment
Brindisi
Brinell
Brinell hardness number
Brinell number
Brinjaree
Brinjarees
Brinton
Brioschi
Briquet

Literary usage of Brihaspati

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy by Max E Muller, Friedrich Max Müller (1919)
"We can see this clearly in the case of the Brihaspati-philosophy. it is equally significant that it does occur in the later and more or less apocryphal ..."

2. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1904)
"Who knows earth as Brihaspati, fire as sanctity. 10. To him comes Indra's quality, he becomes possessed of Indra's quality, — 11. ..."

3. The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to by Maurice Bloomfield (1908)
"... and kindred conceptions—Purusha, the world man—Brihaspati, the Lord of Devotion—Transcendental monotheistic conceptions: “Time,” “Love,” etc. ..."

4. Contributions to the Science of Mythology by Friedrich Max M�uller (1897)
"Lord of prayer, and instead of Brihaspati we also find Vaia- spati, Lord of speech (thus showing that b?*ih (word) must have had the same meaning as va&), ..."

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