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... author or rather the compiler of this commentary , Sâyana Âkârya , lived about 1400 after Christ , that is to say , about as many centuries after , as the poets of the Veda lived before , the beginning of our 6 LECTURE ON THE VEDAS .
... author or rather the compiler of this commentary , Sâyana Âkârya , lived about 1400 after Christ , that is to say , about as many centuries after , as the poets of the Veda lived before , the beginning of our 6 LECTURE ON THE VEDAS .
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... authors , and similar topics . These works , too , go by the name of Rig - veda : but though very curious in themselves , they are evidently of a much later period , and of little help to us in tracing the beginnings of religious life ...
... authors , and similar topics . These works , too , go by the name of Rig - veda : but though very curious in themselves , they are evidently of a much later period , and of little help to us in tracing the beginnings of religious life ...
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... authors of the Brâh- manas had already lost the power of understanding the text of the ancient hymns in its natural and grammatical meaning , and that they suggested the most absurd explanations of the various sacrificial acts , most of ...
... authors of the Brâh- manas had already lost the power of understanding the text of the ancient hymns in its natural and grammatical meaning , and that they suggested the most absurd explanations of the various sacrificial acts , most of ...
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... authors of the Sutras , in order to allow time for further changes in the language , and more particularly for the growth of a new theology , which ascribed to the Brahmanas the same exceptional and revealed character which the ...
... authors of the Sutras , in order to allow time for further changes in the language , and more particularly for the growth of a new theology , which ascribed to the Brahmanas the same exceptional and revealed character which the ...
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... author . A Goethe writes tragedy , comedy , satire , lyrical poetry , and scientific prose ; but we find nothing like this in primitive literature . The individual is there much less pro- minent , and the poet's character disappears in ...
... author . A Goethe writes tragedy , comedy , satire , lyrical poetry , and scientific prose ; but we find nothing like this in primitive literature . The individual is there much less pro- minent , and the poet's character disappears in ...
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