A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c6.149

c6.149

The Vedic literature, by the very sacredness of its character, has fortunately escaped from the remodelling puritanism of the later Brahmans. There must, from the first, have been as great a variety in the intellectual, religious, and moral character of the Indians, as there is in the geographical and physical character of India. If we look at Greece, and consider the immense diversity of local worship, tradition, and customs, which co-existed within that small tract of country, and then turn