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| The Bibles of Other Nations; Being Selections from the Scriptures of the Chinese, Hindoos, Persians, Buddhists, Egyptians, and Mohammedans | ||
| 作者 | Hodgson, James Muscutt |
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| 出版日期 | 2009.12.21 |
| 頁次 | 144 |
| 出版者 | General Books LLC |
| 出版者網址 | http://general-books.net/ |
| 出版地 | Memphis, TN, US [曼非斯, 田納西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Original Publication Date: 1885 Original Publisher: Brook and Chrystal Subjects: Sacred books Religions Religion / General Religion / Comparative Religion Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. |
| 摘要 | Excerpt: HINDU SCRIPTURES. The Vedas. fTHHE Sacred Literature of the Hindus consists of I. A Sruti, and II. Smriti. I. The former, which is regarded as Divinely revealed, includes the different sections of the 4 Vedas. The Rig-Veda is the Veda of Praise; the Yayur- Veda the Veda of Sacrifice; the Sama-Veda contains the Ritual of the Soma Worship; and the Atharva-Veda is the Veda of Incantations. Each of these Vedas consists of three parts, -- a Sanhita, or collection of Mantras or hymns; a Brahmana, or ritualistic rubric; and an Upanishad, or philosophical doctrine. The oldest and most important parts of these books are believed to have been written between 1500 and 1000 B. c. The Rig-Veda-Sanhita, the most ancient portion, contains 1017 hymns addressed to various Nature-Gods. II. The second division of Hindu Sacred Scriptures includes nearly all the later Sanskrit literature; -- the Vedangas, the Law-books, the great Epics, and the Puranas. Brahmanism, or Hinduism, is the religion of about 120 millions of human beings. HINDU SCRIPTURES -- GENERAL SELECTIONS. SELECTION I. The one Supreme Mind, Supreme Ruler, Divine Parent, living and true God. FT1HERE is One Supreme Mind, which transcends all other -I- intelligences. Moving, It cannot be shaken; distant, yet It is near. It pervades the system of worlds, and is yet infinitely beyond it. 2 He exists by Himself; He is All in all, because all is in Him. The Ganges flows, -- it is God. The ocean roars, -- it is God. The cloud that... |
| ISBN | 9781150602658 (pbk); 1150602651 (pbk) |
| 點閱次數 | 326 |
| 建檔日期 | 2010.09.08 |
| 更新日期 | 2010.09.08 |
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