The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

#Translations of the atharva veda# are all partial.  The handiest collection is Grill’s Hundert Lieder des Atharva Veda.  Specimens will be found translated by Aufrecht, IS. i. 121 (book xv); (Roth) Bruce, JRAS. 1862, p. 321 (book xii. 1); Kuhn, Indische und Germanische Segensspriiche, KZ. xiii. 49, 113; Weber, IS. iv. 393, v. 195, 218, xiii. 129, xvii. 178 (books i-iii, xiv); Grohmann, ib. ix. 381; Ludwig, vol. iii, of his translation of the Rig Veda; Zimmer, AIL.:  Victor Henry, books vii and xiii (Les hymnes Rohitas);[9] Bloomfield, Seven Hymns, and Contributions AJP. vii. 466, xi. 319, xii. 414, JAOS. xv. 143, xvi. 1; ZDMG. xlviii. 541; Florenz, BB. xii. 249 (book vi.).  Of The S[=a]ma V[=e]da:  Stevenson (1842) in English (inaccurate) and Benfey (1848) in Gcrman have made translations.  On the Yajur Veda see Schroeder, Literatur und Cultur, and below.

#Vedic mythology#:  Windischmann, Ursagen der Arischen Voelker, Bay.  Ak., 1858; Kuhn, KZ. iv. 88, Herabkunft des Feuers (Prometheus);[10] Roth, Die hoechsten Goetter der Arischen Voelker, ZDMG. vi. 67 (ib. vii. 607); Wilson, Preface of Langlois:  Cox, Aryan Mythology; Whitney, Oriental and Linguistic Studies, ii. p. 149, JAOS. iii. 291, 331; Mueller, Second Series of Science of Language, Biographies of Words.[11] General interpretation of divinities, Mueller, Muir, Bergaigne, Kaegi, Pischel-Geldner, loc. cit. The last books on the subject are Oldenberg’s scholarly volume, Die Religlon des Veda (note, p. 571, above), and Phillip’s The Teaching of the Vedas (1895), the work of a charlatan.

SPECIAL STUDIES OF VEDIC DIVINITIES: 

#Aditi#:  Roth, IS. xiv. 392; Hillebrandt, Ueber die Goettin Aditi; Mueller, SBE. xxxii. 241; Colinet, Etude sur le mot Aditi, Museon, xii. 81. [=A]dityas, Roth, ZDMG. vi. 67 (above); Darmesteter, Ormazd et Ahriman.

#Agni#:  L. von Schroeder, Apollon-Agni, KZ. xxix. 193[12] (see epic, below).

#Apsaras# (see Gandhanas).

#Aryaman# (Acvins, Mitra, etc.):  Bollensen, ZDMG. xli. 494.

#Asura# as Asen, Schrader, p. 599; P. von Bradke, Dy[=a]us Asura.  See Dy[=a]us.

#Acvins#:  Myriantheus, Die Acvins oder Arischen Dioskuren; not Dioskuroi, Pischel, Vedische Studien, Preface, p. xxvii; as constellation, etc., Benfey, OO. ii. 245, iii. 159; Gemini, Weber, last in R[=a]jas[=u]ya, p. 100; as Venus, ‘span-god,’ Bollensen, ZDMG. xli. 496; other literature, Muir, OST. v. 234; Colinet, Vedic Chips, BOR. iii. 193 (n[=a]satya, Avestan n[=a]onhaithya, n[=a] as ’very’).[13]

#Brihaspati#:  Roth, ZDMG. i. 66; Muir, v. 272; Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, i. 404.

#Dawn# (see Ushas).

#Dy[=a]us#:  P. von Bradke, Dy[=a]us Asura, also Beitraege, ZDMG. xl. 347; not the same with Teutonic Tiu, Bremer, IF. iii. 301; as ‘all-father’ of primitive Aryans, Mueller, Origin of Religion, p. 209; followed by Tiele, Outlines of History of Ancient religions, p. 106; see Hopkins, PAOS.  Dec. 1894; form of Word, Collitz.  KZ. xxvii. 187; BB. xv. 17.

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