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Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India Their Religion and Institutions Vol 5 - Classic Reprint Author:J. Muir Is tho Fourth Yolumo of this work I have collected the principal passages of the Yedic Hymns which refer to tho origin of the universe, and to the characters of tho gods Hiranyagarhha, Vigvakarman, Vishnu, Eudra, and tho goddess Ambika; and haxe compared the representations there given of these deities with the later stories and speculations on ... more »the same subjects which are to bo found in the Brahmanas, and in the mythological poems of a more modern date. In the course of these researches, I have also introduced occasional notices of some of the other Vedic deities, such as Aditi, Indra, Yanina, etc.
In the present volume I propose to give a further account of the cosmogony, mythology, and religious ide^as "exhibited in the hymns of the Rig-veda,1 and to compare these occasionally with the corresponding conceptions of tho early Greeks.
1 This subject has been already treated by Professor Roth, in ¿¿ dissertations on "The legend of Jcmshid" and on "The Highest Gods of th
Table of Contents
v, vi PREFACE; L - 7 INTRODUCTION; 2 (1) Affinities of the Indian and£fTecian mythologies; 3, (2) Antiquity and peculiarity of the Vedic mythology, i (3) Origin of cosraogonic and mythological speculation C (4) Variety in the concoptions of the Vcdic poots; 8 -*- 20 SECTION I The I>t>iax Gods ge>teraxlt, as BErHESENTEn in rnE Rig-teda; 8 (t) Yäska's classification of the gods; 9 (2) Their number; 12 (3) Their origin and immortality; 16 (4) Differont generations of gods and their mutnal relations; 18 (5) Their powers and prerogatives; 21 -^34 SECTION II Dyaus and:PQnnrviX3ea^,^t> Raktit); 22 (1) Heaven anm 35 (1) The epithets by which she is characterized 37« less