Assertion: perusal | /r/CapableOf | have been indispensable
Facets:
value: before beginning the creation
type: TEMPORAL
value: to vishnoo
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths, rescued the sacred volumes.