A History of Civilisation in Ancient India Based on Sanscrit Literature: Volume I
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.10.2013
Verlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
416
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/2,2 cm
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710 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-415-86888-4
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... of Brahman. These are a few specimens of the scattered materials in the Brahmana literature, out of which the gorgeous Puranic legend of Siva and his consort was reared. In Aitareya Brahmana (VI, 1 5), and in Satapatha Brahmana (I, 2, 5), we are told the story of the gods obtaining from the Asuras the part of the world which Vishnu could stride over or cover, and thus they managed to get the whole world. It is in the last book of the Satapatha Brahmana (XIV, 1, 1), that Vishnu obtains a sort of supremacy among gods, and his head is then struck off by Indra. Krishna, the son of Devaki, is not yet a deity; he is a pupil of Ghora Angirasa in the Chhandogya Upanishad (III, 17, 6.) While in these scattered allusions we detect materials for the construction of the gorgeous Puranic mythology of a later day, we also find in the Epic Period traces of that disbelief in Brahmanical rites and creed which broke out also at a later day in the Buddhist revolution. The Tandya Brahmana of the Sama Veda contains the Vratya-stomas, by which the Vratyas or Aryan: not livirzg aceom'ing to t/ze Bret/z/naniral system could get admission into that community. Some of them are thus described: --" They drive in open chariots of war, carry bows and lances, wear turbans, robes bordered with red and having fluttering ends, shoes, and sheep skins folded double; their leaders are distinguished by brown robes and silver neck ornaments; they pursue neither agriculture nor commerce; their laws are in a state of confusion; they speak the same language as those who have received Brahmanical consecration, but nevertheless call what is easily spoken hard to pronounce." For the rest, a Vratya was not yet looked upon with contempt, and the Supreme Being is addressed in Prasna Upa...
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