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PDFTitle: The Religions of India Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow
Author: Edward Washburn Hopkins
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HANDBOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
EDITED BY MORRIS JASTROW, JR., PH.D.
Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Pennsylvania
VOLUME I
HANDBOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
THE
RELIGIONS OF INDIA
BY
EDWARD WASHBURN HOPKINS
Ph.D. (Leipsic)
PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY IN BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
"This holy mystery I declare unto you:
There is nothing nobler than humanity."
The mah[=A]bh[=A]rata.
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
37 Bedford street, Strand
PUBLISHER TO THE INDIA OFFICE
1896
(All rights reserved)
COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY
EDWARD WASHBURN HOPKINS
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR
PREFATORY NOTE
By the editor.
The growing interest both in this country and abroad in the historical study of religions is one of the noticeable features in the intellectual phases of the past decades. The more general indications of this interest may be seen in such foundations as the Hibbert and Gifford Lectureships in England, and the recent organization of an American committee to arrange in various cities for lectures on the history of religions, in the establishment of a special department for the subject at the University of Paris, in the organization of the Musee Guimet at Paris, in the publication of a journal—the Revue de
