W D Whitney
Showing all 8 books
Two of the leading departments of Sanskrit scientific literature, the legal and the grammatical, have been already sufficiently noticed; of those remaining, the most important by far is the philosophical. The beginnings of philosophical speculation are seen already in some of the later hymns of the Veda, more abundantly in the Brahmanas and Aranyakas, and then especially in the Upanisads. The evolution and historic relation of the systems of philosophy, and the ...
The Vedas are the most important records of the religion and the institutions of the Aryans. The last and the latest Veda is the Atharvaveda, which is addressed with many other names such as- Amritaveda, Atmaveda, Angiro Veda, Atharvangirasa, Bhrigvangirasa, Kshatra, Bhaishajya and Chandoveda, etc.Atharvaveda describes the application of both type of ceremonies viz., peaceful affirmation and the witchcraft (Abhicarika) ceremonies. The most cryptic mysteries of ...