| Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1808 - 582 pages
...comparatively new. I have not found, in any other part of the Vidas, the least trace of such a worship. The real doctrine of the whole Indian scripture is...of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended : and the seeming polytheism, which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars and planets, as... | |
| 1825 - 788 pages
...Indian history, of considerable importance. " The real doctrine," continues the author just quoted, "of the whole Indian scripture, is the unity of the Deity, in whom the universe is comprehended ; and the apparent polytheism •which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars and planets,... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pages
...Indian history, of considerable importance. " The real doctrine," continues the author just quoted, " of the whole Indian scripture, is the unity of the Deity, in whom the universe is comprehended; and the apparent polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars and planets, as gods.... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1827 - 312 pages
...Indian Mythology? The real doctrine contained in the sacred books of the ancient Indian Mythology, is the unity of the Deity ; in whom the universe is comprehended ; of which the elements, stars, and planets, became objects of worship, because parts of him, the great... | |
| Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 pages
...comparatively new. I have not found in any other parts of the Vedas the least trace of such a worship. The real doctrine of the whole Indian scripture is...of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended ; and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits offers the elements and the stars and planets as gods.... | |
| Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - 460 pages
...comparatively new. I have not found, in any other part of the Vedas, the least trace of such a worship. The real doctrine of the whole Indian scripture is...of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended : and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars, and planets, as... | |
| Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - 468 pages
...trace of such a worship. The real doctrine of the whole Indian Asiatic Researches, vol. vii. p. 283. scripture is the unity of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended : and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars, and planets, as... | |
| August Gladisch - 1841 - 422 pages
...xai тоито 6тсар%£М $s.óv. 339) On the Vedas in Ъ. Asiat. Res. T. Vin. p. 494. The red doctrine of the whole Indian scripture is the unity...of the deity, in whom the universe is comprehended. <£benfo flintmt fcíjü» tn SOiifflonat' Ши) Í). Dnperron ad Onpnekhai TI p. 412. bie 3ttfcifdje... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 524 pages
...from that taught in the Vedas. " The real doctrine of the Indian scripture," says Mr. Colebrook, " is the unity of the deity in whom the universe is comprehended; and the seeming polytheism which it exhibits, offers the elements, and the stars and planets as gods.... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...Indian scripture," says Mr. Colebrooke, in his excellent essay on the Védas, (As. Res. viii. 494,) " is the unity of the Deity, in whom the universe is comprehended : and the seeming polytheism, which it exhibits, offers the elements and the stars and planets, as... | |
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