Original Sanskrit Texts On The Origin And History Of The People Of India Their Religion And Institutions Contributions To A Knowledge Of The Cosmogony Mythology Religious Ideas Life And Manners Of The Indians In The Vedic Age

Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions, Vol. 5 written by John Muir and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions, Vol. 5: Contributions to a Knowledge of the Cosmogony, Mythology, Religious Ideas, Life and Manners, of the Indians in the Vedic Age In the present volume I have reprinted, with the addition of some new materials, subsequently collected, and of the texts on which they are founded, a series of papers on the theogony, mythology, and religious ideas of the Vedic poets, and other subjects, which originally appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1864, and the two following years: and I have appended a new section, on life and manners during the Vedic age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.