Frog
animal · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
frogs · al-ḍafādiʻ · cow-lowing one · goat-lowing one · the frog · the frogs · the green one · the spotted one
spoken of as
1 expressionFrogs2 mentions
Orations (Greek) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
And he pointed to the frogs and not a few other animals, much tenderer than man and much barer, and some of these able to endure not only the air, but to live even in the coldest water in winter.
in the texts
Rigveda
Minor creature cited as an example of natural desire in the riddle-hymn on varied callings.
the penis desires the two hairy clefts, the frog desires water — flow around for Indra, O Indu.
Lying still for a year like Brāhmaṇas observing their vow, the frogs have raised their voice set in motion by Parjanya.
When the heavenly waters came over him — like a dry bladder lying in a pool — the voice of the frogs, like the lowing of cattle and the lowing of cows with calves, comes together here.
Orations
Animals cited by Diogenes as tender and bare yet able to endure cold and even live in cold water, refuting the claim that human tenderness precludes a hardy life.
And he pointed to the frogs and not a few other animals, much tenderer than man and much barer, and some of these able to endure not only the air, but to live even in the coldest water in winter.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Frogs, the figure for empty chatter in the verse.
frogs between the water and the trees