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.
[Footnote 3:  On the artistic side Emil Schlagintweit’s great work, Indien in Wort und Bild, contains much of interest to the student of religious paraphernalia.  See also below under wild tribes.]

     [Footnote 4:  Roth, Morality of the Veda; Whitney, Result of
     Vedic Researches (JAOS. iii. 289 and 331); Whitney, History
     of the Vedic Texts, ib. iv. 245.]

     [Footnote 5:  Under this title Roth has an essay (on the
     comparison of texts), KZ. xxvi. 45.]

     [Footnote 6:  See below.  Defence of the same by the author,
     WZKM. vii. 103.]

[Footnote 7:  JRAS, i. 51 ff., and subsequent volumes, Contributions to a Knowledge of the Vedic Theogony and Mythology and Progress of the Vedic Religion toward Abstract Conceptions of the Deity.]
[Footnote 8:  It cannot be too much emphasized that Grassmann’s translation should never be used for comparative purposes.  At the same time, for a general understanding of the contents of the whole Rig Veda it is the only book that can be recommended.  Ludwig’s translation is so uncouth that without a controlling knowledge of the original it is often meaningless.]
[Footnote 9:  Bloomfield, AJP. xii. 429.  Compare also Regnaud, Le Mythe de Rohita.  The same author has published various Vedic articles in the Rev. de l’histoire des religions, vols. xv-xxvi.  Whitney’s complete translation of AV. will soon appear.]

     [Footnote 10:  Sexual side of fire-cult; whirlwind of fire,
     M[=a]taricvan, Schwartz, KZ. xx. 202; compare Hillebrandt,
     ZDMG. xxxiii. 248.]

     [Footnote 11:  Neisser’s Vorvedisches im Veda, BB. xvii. 244,
     is not a mythological study.]

[Footnote 12:  Apollon here is Saparye[n.]ya, ‘worshipful.’  This derivation is attacked by Froehde, Apollon, BB. xix. 230 (compare Fick, ib. xviii. 138), who derives Apollon from [Greek:  phellhon], ‘word,’ comparing [Greek:  hapellhaxein], ‘conciliare,’ pell being ‘spell’ (in Gospel, etc.), ‘inter-pellare.’  Thus Apollo would be ‘prophet,’ ‘warspello.’  On vahni, Agni, compare Neisser, Vedica, BB. xviii. 301 (xix. 120, 248).]
[Footnote 13:  Oldenberg, loc. cit., interprets Acvins as morning and evening stars!  The epithet (of Agni and Acvins) bhura[n.]yu has been equated with Phor[=o]neus, we forget by whom.]

     [Footnote 14:  Oldenberg’s (Die Religion des Veda)
     Old-Man-of-the-Mountains-Indra thus gets etymological
     support.]

     [Footnote 15:  For convenience included in this list.]

     [Footnote 16:  Maspiter is Mars-pater.]

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