Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and Progress of the Religion and Institutions of India: The Trans-Himalayan origin of the Hindus, and their affinity with the western branches of the Arian raceJohn Muir Williams and Norgate, 1860 - Brahmanism |
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abode aboriginal adduce affinity Agni ancient appears Arian Arian race Aryas Aśoka Asuras Avesta become Benfey Bengali Brāhmaṇas Brahmans Buddhist Burnouf Ceylon Clough common composed corrupted Dasyus Delius derived from Sanskrit Dham employed English existed fact form of speech Gandhāra gods grammar grammarians Haoma Hindi Hindus Hindusthan Indo-Arians Indra Indus inflections inscriptions Iranians Kambojas Lassen later literature Magadhi Mahabharata Mahratti mantras Manu modern vernaculars Mrichh Müller nations Nirukta north-west northern India nouns oldest origin Pāli Panjab passage peculiar period Persian Prakrit dialects Professor provincial quoted Rakshasas Rāmāyana referred regard region religion religious remarks resemblance Rig-veda rishis river roots Roth sacred Sanskrit language Sanskrit words Sarasvati Sauraseni says spoken language suppose Telugu thou tion tongue tribes Uttara Kurus Veda Vedic hymns verbs vernacular dialects verse viii Vikr Weber Wilson writings Yaska Zend इति वा हि
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Page 467 - Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, vol. ii.
Page 474 - Arian people, whose whole religion was a worship of the wonderful powers and phenomena of nature, had no sooner perceived that this liquid had power to elevate the spirits, and produce a temporary frenzy, under the influence of which the individual was prompted to, and capable of, deeds beyond his natural powers, than they found in it something divine ; it was to their apprehension a god endowing those into whom it entered with god-like powers ; the plant which afforded it became to them the king...
Page 315 - Zoroastrians had been settled in India before they immigrated into Persia. I say the Zoroastrians, for we have no evidence to bear us out in making the same assertion of the nations of Persia and Media in general. That the Zoroastrians and their ancestors started from India during the Vaidik period can be proved as distinctly as that the inhabitants of Massilia started from Greece.
Page 213 - SIVA occurs, and there is not the slightest allusion to the form in which, for the last ten centuries at least, he seems to have been almost exclusively worshipped in India — that of the...
Page iii - Vol. III. The Vedas : Opinions of their Authors, and of later Indian Writers, on their Origin, Inspiration, and Authority. Second Edition, revised and enlarged.
Page 66 - They observe that the very word ' Pali ' signifies, original, text, regularity ; and there is scarcely a Buddhist Pali scholar in Ceylon who, in the discussion of this question, will not quote, with an air of triumph, their favourite verse, sa Magadhi mula-lhasa nara yay'adikappikd \ brahmano cVassutalapa Sambuddha eh&pi lhasare.
Page 205 - The mass, as it lies before us, is almost exclusively of a religious character ; this may have had its ground partly in the end for which the collections were afterwards made, but it is probably in a far higher degree due to the character of the people itself, which thus shows itself to have been at the beginning what it continued to be throughout its whole history, an essentially religious one .... Hymns of a very different character are not entirely wanting, and this might be taken as an indication...
Page 112 - We may therefore recognise it as an actually existent form of speech in some part of India, and might admit the testimony of its origin given by the Buddhists themselves, by whom it is always identified with the language of Magadha or...
Page 315 - during the Vaidik period, can be proved as distinctly as that the inhabitants of Massilia started from Greece. . . . Many of the gods of the Zoroastrians come out ... as mere reflections and deflections...
Page 80 - Pali," written by Burnouf and Lassen, those learned authors maintain that Pali stands "on the first step of the ladder of departure from Sanscrit, and is the first of the series of dialects which break up that rich and fertile language". This, then, is a sufficiently clear and definite fact, which is invaluable to the historian of India. We know the spoken tongue of the Vedic Age, which has been preserved in the simplest and most beautiful hymns of the Rig Veda. We know the spoken tongue of the Epic...