The Vedic Religion: Or the Creed and Practice of the Indo-Aryans Three Thousand Years Ago (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

K. S. Macdonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330393554 ISBN 13: 9781330393550

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from The Vedic Religion: Or the Creed and Practice of the Indo-Aryans Three Thousand Years Ago At the request of the Calcutta Missionary Conference I wrote, during the cold-weather holidays of 1879-80, a paper on this subject. The following Notes are an expansion of that paper. Members of the Conference and other Missionaries expressed a desire and expectation that the paper be published. Impressed by the importance of the subject, and by the fact that there is no book published upon it, though fully conscious of the shortcomings and imperfections of my attempt, I have yielded to the desire, in the hope that others more qualified may take the matter up. I have neither time nor qualifications for it. At present, much is published bearing directly or indirectly upon it in Dr. Muir's most learned volumes, of which six or seven are before the public, in Max Muller sand Monier Williams' more popular works, as well as in many other books containing, among much other matter bearing on Sanskrit literature or the Hindu religion, short sketches of the times and hymns of the Veda. 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."

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Excerpt from The Vedic Religion: Or the Creed and Practice of the Indo-Aryans Three Thousand Years Ago

My own feeling is that a missionary to the Hindus should know Hinduism. But no human being can thoroughly know Hinduism with its Sanskrit mss. Happily the highest authority among them is the Sanhita of the rig-veda. There is no appeal from it. This, though about half the size of the Bible, a missionary can master as regards its subject matter. To help him to do so the following pages have been written, in the hope that the Spirit of God may use them for the pulling down of strongholds, and for the building up of His own kingdom in India. K. S. M.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330393554
• ISBN 13: 9781330393550
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 278