Book/Printed Material Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and progress of the religion and institutions of India; collected, tr. into English, and illustrated by notes. Chiefly for the use of students and others in India Part Third
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Image 7 of Part Third ORIGINAL SANSKRIT TEXTS ORIGIN AND HISTORY THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, THEIR RELIGION AND INSTITUTIONS. COLLECTED, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, AND ILLUSTRATED BY REMARKS, CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND OTHERS IN INDIA.…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 8 of Part Third HERTFORD: Printed by STEPHEN AUSTIN, Fore Street-- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 9 of Part Third PREFACE. Tue principal object which I have had in view in this volume, as in the two which preceded it, has been to assist the researches of those Hindus who may desire…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 10 of Part Third al PREFACE. reasoning and speculation) profess to be mainly derived ; or with which, at least, they all pretend to be in har- mony. When I speak, however, of the history of…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 11 of Part Third PREFACE. vii to the class of systematic or philosophical theologians ; but as their speculative principles differ, it is the object of each particular school to explain and establish the origin and…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 12 of Part Third Vill PREFACE. classes of writers above described, in regard to the Vedas, | as these opinions are shown in the passages which are collected in the present volume. And this becomes the…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 13 of Part Third PREFACE. 1X duced from the Gayatri, or as created by Brahma ,; another from the Mahabharata, which describes Saras- yati as the mother of the Vedas; with two from the Rik and…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 14 of Part Third x PREFACE. duces a different account, asserting their division in the second or Treta age, by the King Pururavas, according to another passage of the same Bhagavata Purana, anda text of the…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 15 of Part Third PREFACE. x1 reveals the supernatural means of attaining future felt- city ; explains that males only, belonging to the three superior castes, are competent to study its contents; and asserts that, inasmuch…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 16 of Part Third X11 PREFACE. past dissolution of the universe; (2) that it would be impossible to prove that no one had ever recollected any such author; (3) that the sentences of the Veda have…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 17 of Part Third PREFACE. xill no ground for questioning the eternity of the Vedas,— an eternity which is proved by the fact of our recog- nizing letters when we meet with them. These letters are…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 18 of Part Third X1V PREFACE. in some extracts from Patanjali’s Mahabhashya and its commentators, which have been adduced by Prof. Gold- sticker in the Preface to his Manava-kalpa Siitra, and i have been partly reprinted…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 19 of Part Third PREFACE. XV no references to non-eternal objects, and) by asserting that the eternal connection of words is not with individual objects, but with the species to which these objects belong, and that…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 20 of Part Third XV1 PREFACE. person who was its author. It does not clearly appear from Gotama’s aphorism who the wise person was whom he regards as the maker of the Veda. If he did…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 21 of Part Third PREFACE. XVil ness, and no other person could have done so from want of omniscience. And even if the Veda have been uttered by the primeval Purusha, it cannot be called his…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 22 of Part Third XV1li PREFACE. adduced (pp. 90-96) from the Nyaya-mala-vistara, from Kulluka’s commentary on Manu, and from Sankara Acharyya, to show that a distinct line of demarcation is drawn by the scholastic writers between…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 23 of Part Third PREFACE. x1x generally recognized; while the authors of the other systems are regarded, eg., by Madhustidana Sarasvati, as, amid all their diversities, having in view, as their ultimate scope, the support of…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 24 of Part Third XX PREFACE. considers, authoritative, and free from error on their own special subject. And as respects the discrepancy between the Sankhya and the Vedanta, regarding the unity of Soul, he concludes that…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 25 of Part Third PREFACE. XXi them at the head of the list) that the former can claim any superiority over the other works with which they are associated. In Section tenth (pp. 107-113) the arguments…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 26 of Part Third Xxil PREFACE. which such authorship appears to be implied, though it is not expressed. Section fourth (pp. 141-164) contains a variety of passages from the same Veda, in which (1) a superhuman…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 27 of Part Third PREFACE. XXili inspiration differ widely from the conceptions of later theorists ; for while the former looked upon the gods, who were confessedly mere created beings, as the sources of supernal illumination,…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 28 of Part Third XXIV PREFACE. For an account of the printed works or MSS. from which my Sanskrit extracts have been made, I may refer to the Prefaces of the First and Second Parts. And…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 29 of Part Third PAGES CONTENTS. y¥.—xxiv. PREFACE. I—113. I— 6 6— 12 12— 19 20— 31. 31— 39. 39— 52 §2— 73 73— 86 86—107. CHAPTER I. Oprnions REGARDING THE Oriain, Division, InsPi- RATION, AND…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 30 of Part Third XXv1 CONTENTS. PAGES difference of opinion between S’ankara and Madhusiidana, regard- ing the orthodoxy of Kapila and Kanada; the distinction in point of authority between the Vedas and the other S'astras, drawn…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 31 of Part Third PAGES 210—216. 996 bo te ~J bo bo “I 227 228—231. t CONTENTS. XxXVil Nore V. on Page $1, Line 13. Extracts from the Kusumanjali, contro- verting the eternity of the Veda,…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 32 of Part Third CORRECTIONS AND EMENDATIONS. Page 32, Line 23, for “ Brahmarati,” read « Brahmarata.” 57 wh 66 2. r) ly 99 2, mi) , aT th ; ed e ty 45 ") 99…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 33 of Part Third ORIGINAL SANSKRIT TEXTS, PART THIinD. CHAPTER I. OPINIONS REGARDING THE ORIGIN, DIVISION, INSPIRATION, AND AUTHORITY OF THE VEDAS, HELD BY INDIAN AUTHORS SUB- SEQUENT TO THE COLLECTION OF THE HYMNS. In the…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 34 of Part Third 2 OPINIONS REGARDING THE ORIGIN, ETC., [CHAP. I. desires to obtain a fuller idea of the nature of the hymns, and of the attributes there ascribed to the divinities to whom they…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 35 of Part Third SECT. I. | OF THE VEDAS, HELD BY INDIAN AUTHORS. 3 Sxcr. I.—Zlemental origin of the Vedas according to the Brahmanas, Upanishads, and Institutes of Manu. I commence with a passage from-the…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 36 of Part Third 4 OPINIONS REGARDING THE ORIGIN, ETC., [CHAP, I. in Part Second, p. 200) occurs in the Chhandogya Upanishad (p. 288 of Dr. Roer’s Ed.) Prajapatir lokin abhyatapat | teshim tapyamananaw rasin pribrihad…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 37 of Part Third Or SECT, 1.] OF THE VEDAS, HELD BY INDIAN AUTHORS. and conditions of all [creatures]. That Lord also created the subtile order of active and living deities, and of Sadhyas, and eternal…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 38 of Part Third 6 OPINIONS REGARDING THE ORIGIN, ETC.,. —_[cuar. 1. Rig-veda opens with a hymn to fire, and the Yajur-veda with one in which air is mentioned.”—Colebr. Misc. Ess. i. p. 11, note. To…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 39 of Part Third SECT. 11. ] OF THE VEDAS, HELD BY INDIAN AUTHORS. 7 cha paschimad asrijad mukhat | ehavimsam atharvinam dptor- yamainam evacha | Anushtubham sa vairdjam uttarad asrijad mukhat. ‘‘ From his first…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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Image 40 of Part Third 8 OPINIONS REGARDING THE ORIGIN, ETC., [CHAP, I. sutrany anuvyakhyanan vydkhyandni asyaiva etani sarvani ni- svasitani. “‘ As from a fire made of moist wood various modifi- cations of smoke proceed, so…- Contributor: Muir, J. (John)
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