Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India
Subtitle: their religion and institutions
By: collected, translated, and illustrated, by J. Muir
Edition: 2 d. ed., rewritten and greatly enlarged.
Publisher: Oriental Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Subjects: Brahmanism; Caste; Sanskrit literature; Indo-Aryans; Hinduism; Vedas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an inquiry into its existence in the Vedic age.; title: v. 2. Inquiry whether the Hindus are of trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race.; title: v. 3. The Vedas: opinions of their authors and of later Indian writers on their origin, inspiration, and authority.; title: v. 4. Comparison of the Vedic with their 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.