A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c10.84
A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c10.84
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c10.84
We may, therefore, safely ascribe the collection of the Rig-veda, or, as Professor Roth calls it, the historical Veda, to a less practical age than that of the Brâhmaṇa period; to an age, not entirely free from the trammels of a ceremonial, yet not completely enslaved by a system of mere formalities; to an age no longer creative and impulsive, yet not without some power of upholding the traditions of a past that spoke to a later generation of men through the very poems which they were collecting with so much zeal and accuracy.