Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions
By: collected, translated, and illustrated, by J. Muir.
Edition: 2nd ed., rewritten and greatly enlarged.
Publisher: Trübner
Published: 1868
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Vedas; Brahmanism; Caste -- India; Sanskrit literature; Indo-Aryans; Indo-Europeans; Indo-Iranians; Hinduism
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age. 1868; title: v. 2. Inquiry whether the Hindus are of Trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 1871; title: v. 3. The Vedas: opinions of their authors and of later Indian writers on their origin, inspiration, and authority. 1868; title: v. 4. Comparison of the Vedic with the later representations of the principal Indian deities.; title: v. 5. Contributions to a knowledge of the cosmogony, mythology, religious ideas, life and manners, of the Indians in the Vedic age.