The Great Indian Religions
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Shubhi Publications,India
Published: September 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9788187226369
Subjects: Religions of Indic & Oriental origin
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.