A HISTORY

OF

ANCIENT SANSKRIT LITERATURE

SO FAR AS IT ILLUSTRATES

THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION OF THE BRAHMANS.

BY MAX MÜLLER, M.A.

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford:

Correspondant de l'Institut Impérial de France; Foreign Member of the Royal Bavarian Academy;
Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature; Corresponding Member of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal, and of the American Oriental Society; Member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, and of
the Oriental Society of Germany; and Taylorian Professor in the University of Oxford.

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This Work is Inscribed

AS A TOKEN OF ADMIRATION AND GRATITUDE

BY HIS PUPIL AND FRIEND

MAX MÜLLER.