The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c7.5

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c7.5

One cannot now help wondering to what station in life might have belonged these early poets. I can only think of rhapsodists from out of the people, seized on occasion by the divine frenzy, perchance some village barber—old and semi-religious functionary in the Hindu village—or some village Hans Sachs,

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