A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.7
A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.7
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c8.7
These numerous Sûtra works which we still possess, contain the quintessence of all the knowledge which the Brahmans had accumulated during many centuries of study and meditation. Though they are the work of individuals, they owe to their authors little more than their form; and even that form was, most likely, the result of a long-continued system of traditional teaching, and not the invention of a few individuals.