The Sacred Books of the East Described and Examined: Hindu series, Volume 1Christian Literature Society of India, 1898 - Hinduism |
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... translated into Latin , was finished by him , and published after his death in 1838 . In 1845 Max Müller was in Paris , copying the text of the Rig- Veda with the commentary of Sayana Acharya . Sayana was brother of Madhavacharya , the ...
... translated into Latin , was finished by him , and published after his death in 1838 . In 1845 Max Müller was in Paris , copying the text of the Rig- Veda with the commentary of Sayana Acharya . Sayana was brother of Madhavacharya , the ...
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... translated by Professor Peterson of Bombay . Bengali translations of the Rig - Veda have been published . METRES AND LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS . Metres . - Great importance is attached to the Metres used . Dr. Haug says : - " The power and ...
... translated by Professor Peterson of Bombay . Bengali translations of the Rig - Veda have been published . METRES AND LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS . Metres . - Great importance is attached to the Metres used . Dr. Haug says : - " The power and ...
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... translated into English by Dr. Roer , are quoted in full , with the notes of Sankara Acharya and others , and there are copious extracts from the Brihad Aranya and Chhandogya Upanishads with an examination of their teaching . ‡ THE ...
... translated into English by Dr. Roer , are quoted in full , with the notes of Sankara Acharya and others , and there are copious extracts from the Brihad Aranya and Chhandogya Upanishads with an examination of their teaching . ‡ THE ...
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... translations . The Third Volume of his Sanskrit Texts treats of " The Vedas , Opinions of their Authors , and of later Indian writers of their Origin , Inspira- tion , and Authority . " Only a few quotations can be made . Opinions may ...
... translations . The Third Volume of his Sanskrit Texts treats of " The Vedas , Opinions of their Authors , and of later Indian writers of their Origin , Inspira- tion , and Authority . " Only a few quotations can be made . Opinions may ...
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... bably extended over several centuries . Max Müller estimates that * Book I , Hymn 175. Translated by R. T. H. Griffith . they were composed , such as we now have them 20 THE RIG - VEDA . THE TIME WHEN THE VEDAS WERE COMPOSED.
... bably extended over several centuries . Max Müller estimates that * Book I , Hymn 175. Translated by R. T. H. Griffith . they were composed , such as we now have them 20 THE RIG - VEDA . THE TIME WHEN THE VEDAS WERE COMPOSED.
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Page 181 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 138 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last - far off - at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 67 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Page 128 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 181 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 138 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
Page 180 - If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 2 - And how many hours a day did you do lessons ? " said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. " Ten hours the first day," said the Mock Turtle: "nine the next, and so on." "What a curious plan! " exclaimed Alice. "That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.
Page 106 - Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 180 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.