A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s2.58
A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s2.58
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¹ Enthusiasm should not, however, be allowed to obscure calm criticism, as is the case with *H. Brunnhofer*, who (in his essay "Ueber den Geist der indischen Lyrik," Leipzig 1882) makes the author of one of the later philosophical hymns of the Ṛgveda "A prince of poets towering up out of the mists of primitive times" (p. 15) and is carried away into saying that "the Veda is like the lark's morning trill, of humanity awakening to the consciousness of its greatness" (p. 41). That the Veda certainly is not!