ISBN: 9781406813296

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE RIG VEDA. THE UPPER GODS. The hymns of the Rig Veda may be divided into three classes, those in which are especially lauded the older divinities, those in which appear as most prominent the sacrificial gods, and those in which a long-weakened polytheism is giving place to the light of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE RIG VEDA. THE UPPER GODS. The hymns of the Rig Veda may be divided into three classes, those in which are especially lauded the older divinities, those in which appear as most prominent the sacrificial gods, and those in which a long-weakened polytheism is giving place to the light of a clearer pantheism. In each category there are hymns of different age and quality, for neither did the more ancient with the growth of new divinities cease to be revered, nor did pantheism inhibit the formal acknowledgment of the primitive pantheon. The cult once established persisted, and even when, at a later time, all the gods had been reduced to nominal fractions of the All-god, their ritualistic individuality still was preserved. The chief reason for this lies in the nature of these gods and in the attitude of the worshipper. No matter how much the cult of later gods might prevail, the other gods, who represented the daily phenomena of nature, were still visible, awe-inspiring, divine. The firmest pantheist questioned not the advisability of propitiating the' sun-god, however much he might regard this god as but a part of one that was greater. Belief in India was never so philosophical that the believer did not dread the lightning, and seek to avert it by praying to the special god that wielded it. But active veneration in later times was extended in fact only to the strong Powers, while the more passive divinities, although they were kept as a matter of form in the ceremonial, yet had inreality only tongue-worshippers. With some few exceptions, however, it will be found impossible to say whether any one deity belonged to the first pantheon. The best one can do is to separate the mass of gods from those that become the popular gods, and endeavor to learn what was the Books, Religion~~General, The-Religions-Of-India~~Edward-Washburn-Hopkins, 999999999, The Religions Of India, Edward Washburn Hopkins, 140681329X, Echo Library, , , , , Echo Library<

2007, ISBN: 140681329X

[EAN: 9781406813296], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Echo Library, Teddington, Middlesex, England], RELIGION - HINDU HISTORY INDIA EASTERN, Religion|Fundamentalism, Used in trade pap… Plus…

[EAN: 9781406813296], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Echo Library, Teddington, Middlesex, England], RELIGION - HINDU HISTORY INDIA EASTERN, Religion|Fundamentalism, Used in trade paperback format with library mylar covers. Ex-public library but with only a label on the back cover. Contents appear clean and tight throughout. Originally written in 1895, this appears to be a facsimile reprint of the Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers edition of 1977. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages; Edward Washburn Hopkins, Ph. D. , LL. D. (September 8, 1857–1932) , American Sanskrit scholar, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated at Columbia University in 1878, studied at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph. D. In 1881, was an instructor at Columbia (1881-1885) , and professor at Bryn Mawr (1885-1895) , and became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Yale University in 1895. He became secretary of the American Oriental Society and editor of its Journal, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early Sanskrit literature. - from Wikipedia.<

2007, ISBN: 140681329X

[EAN: 9781406813296], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Echo Library, Teddington, Middlesex, England], RELIGION - HINDU HISTORY INDIA EASTERN, Religion|Fundamentalism, Used in trade pap… Plus…

[EAN: 9781406813296], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Echo Library, Teddington, Middlesex, England], RELIGION - HINDU HISTORY INDIA EASTERN, Religion|Fundamentalism, Used in trade paperback format with library mylar covers. Ex-public library but with only a label on the back cover. Contents appear clean and tight throughout. Originally written in 1895, this appears to be a facsimile reprint of the Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers edition of 1977. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages; Edward Washburn Hopkins, Ph. D. , LL. D. (September 8, 1857–1932) , American Sanskrit scholar, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated at Columbia University in 1878, studied at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph. D. In 1881, was an instructor at Columbia (1881-1885) , and professor at Bryn Mawr (1885-1895) , and became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Yale University in 1895. He became secretary of the American Oriental Society and editor of its Journal, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early Sanskrit literature. - from Wikipedia.<