Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

When I speak, however, of the history of the Veda, I am reminded that I am employing a term: which will suggest to the philosophical reader the ides of a minute and systematic account of the various opinions which the Indians have held in regard to their sacred books from the commencement, through all the successive stages of their theological development, down to the present time. To do anything like this, however, would be a task demanding an extent of research far exceeding any to which I can pretend. At some future time, indeed, we may hope that a history of the theological and speculative ideas of the I ndians, which shall treat this branch also of the subject, may be written by some competent scholar. My own design is much more modest. I only attempt to show what are the opinions, on the subject of theY eda, which have been entertained by certain distinct sets of writers whom I may broadly divide into three classes {!) the mythological, (2) the scholastic, and (3) theY edic. The first, or mythological class, embraces the writers of the different Puranas and I tihasas, and partially those of theB rahmanas and Uppnishads, who, like the compilers of the Puranas, frequently combine the mythological with the theosophic element.
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