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Indian Thought. Past and Present

1915

The Vedic period collected the ancient hymns of the Indo-Aryans into the verses of the Rig Veda and those of the Sama Veda used as chants during the sacrifice and those of the Yajur Veda as the ritual for sacrifice. [...] It is said to be of the very nature of Speech : " Speech is the highest Brahman." 2 In the Rig Veda Speech or the voice of the hymn becomes personified as a female deity Vac Voice which is the voice in the wind and in the storm the voice that rang from the heavens throughout the primeval universe. [...] Not only in the Brahman or prayer do all the gods rest but the prayer is personified as the Lord of Prayer the Lord of Beings the All-Maker the Golden Germ even as Brahma the personal Creator of the universe. [...] They thus developed the doctrine of the substitution of the animal or cereal offering for the human which they argued was the more primitive and again they enunciated the doctrine of the efficacy of the sacrifice in the maintenance of the world." Keith J.R.A. [...] In cases of caste pollution it may be held that the degree of the pollution varies inversely with the degree of adoption of the Brahmanical customs and manners." In the south as in the north the more powerful and influential indigenous rulers and chieftains were classed as Aryan Kshatriyas and " the Brahmans got up for them genealogies which traced their ancestry to the sun the moon or the f
philosophy religion
Pages
376
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145402
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-6 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter I Introduction
7-11 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter II the Vedas
12-33 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter III the Brahmanas
34-43 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter IV the Upanishads
44-72 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter V Vedanta
73-113 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter VI Sankhya
114-123 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter VII Vais'eshika and Nyaya
124-131 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter VIII Yoga
132-140 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter IX Buddhism
141-187 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter X Hinduism
188-x R.W. Frazer view
Chapter XI Past and Present Position of Woman in India
271-306 R.W. Frazer view
Chapter XII Present Indian Thought
307-330 R.W. Frazer view
Index
331-340 R.W. Frazer view

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