The Great Indian Religions
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781417973231
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Religion; Religion - World Religions
First sentence: WHATEVER may have been the history of the Aryans, by whom the Vedas were produced, previous to their entering India, it is certain that when they did so, long before Buddhism took its rise, in the sixth century B.C., they had developed religious ideas and conceptions which present singular analogies and similarities to those which appear to be most primitive among the Greeks; and which suggest, if they do not prove, that the European and Hindu Aryans sprang from a common stock.