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... VEDAS proper , so called from ved , the law , which are named respectively the Rig - Veda , the Yajur - Veda , the Sama - Veda , and the Atharva - Veda . These are regarded as having come immediately from God , and as containing the ...
... VEDAS proper , so called from ved , the law , which are named respectively the Rig - Veda , the Yajur - Veda , the Sama - Veda , and the Atharva - Veda . These are regarded as having come immediately from God , and as containing the ...
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... Rig - Veda was produced from fire , the Ya- jur - Veda from air , and the Sama - Veda from the sun ; again , that the goddess Saraswati is the mother of the Vedas ; still again , that they are de- rived from the mystical victim Purusha ...
... Rig - Veda was produced from fire , the Ya- jur - Veda from air , and the Sama - Veda from the sun ; again , that the goddess Saraswati is the mother of the Vedas ; still again , that they are de- rived from the mystical victim Purusha ...
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... Vedas , which also specifies the meter and the num- ber of stanzas in each hymn . The Rig - Veda has 1017 hymns , and 10,417 stanzas ( there is a differ- ence of six or eight stanzas in different enumera- tions ) , the authorship of ...
... Vedas , which also specifies the meter and the num- ber of stanzas in each hymn . The Rig - Veda has 1017 hymns , and 10,417 stanzas ( there is a differ- ence of six or eight stanzas in different enumera- tions ) , the authorship of ...
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... Rig - Veda , thinks that their collection and arrangement in their present form took place at least as early as from the 12th to the 10th century before Christ , but that their composition occupied quite an indefinite period of , some ...
... Rig - Veda , thinks that their collection and arrangement in their present form took place at least as early as from the 12th to the 10th century before Christ , but that their composition occupied quite an indefinite period of , some ...
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... Vedas and elsewhere Dasyas , * and , in fact , all the original tribes of Northern India . This is shown , at some length ... Rig - Veda , with the view of discovering whether any of them would be regarded as of non - Aryan or indigenous ...
... Vedas and elsewhere Dasyas , * and , in fact , all the original tribes of Northern India . This is shown , at some length ... Rig - Veda , with the view of discovering whether any of them would be regarded as of non - Aryan or indigenous ...
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Page 284 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Page 285 - And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred' and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Page 145 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 197 - No man hath seen God at any time ; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Page 13 - I need not dwell on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced geologist ; indeed, the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence on the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, now his contemporaries, began to predominate. If there be a difference of opinion respecting the occurrence in certain deposits of the remains of man and his works, it...
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Page 195 - He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Page 127 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.