 | 1807 - 574 pages
...a complete translation of the whole : and what they contain, would hardly reward the labour ot ihe reader ; much less, that of the translator. The ancient...are composed, and especially that of the three first Vci!ast is extremely difficult ana obscuie : and, though curious, as the parent of a more polished... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1808 - 582 pages
...Vedas. They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole : and what they contain, would hardly reward the labour of the reader ; much less,...are composed, and especially that of the three first V&das, is extremely difficult and obscure : and, though curious, as the parent of a more polished •... | |
 | Quintin Craufurd - 1817 - 758 pages
...Vedas. They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole : and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader; much less,...are composed, and especially that of the three first Vedas, * Asiat. Res. vol. viii. p. 479, et seq. is extremely difficult and obscure; and, though curious,... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1828 - 386 pages
...— " The ancient dialect in which the Vedas are composed, and especially that of the three first, is extremely difficult and obscure : and, though curious,...more polished and refined language (the classical Sanscrit), its difficulties must long continue to prevent such an examination of the whole Vedas, as... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - 460 pages
...Vedas. They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole; and what they contai nwould hardly reward the labour of the reader; much less...are composed, and especially that of the three first Vedas, is extremely difficult and obscure: and, though curious, as the parent of a more polished and... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - 472 pages
...translator. The ancient dialect in which they are composed, and especially that of the three first Vedas, is extremely difficult and obscure : and, though curious,...more polished and refined language (the classical Sanscrit), its difficulties must long continue to prevent such an examination of the whole Vedas, as... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1842 - 476 pages
...says : " They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole ; and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader, much less that of the translator." The Vedas are four in number, called Rig Veda, Yajush Veda, Saman Veda, and Alharvan Veda. The first consists... | |
 | Chevalier Bunsen, Charles Meyer, Friedrich Max Müller - 1848 - 110 pages
...The ancient dialect in which the Vedas are composed, and especially that of the three first Vedas, is extremely difficult and obscure ; and though curious,...more polished and refined language (the classical Sanscrit), its difficulties must long continue to prevent such an examination of the whole Vedas as... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1848 - 680 pages
...The ancient dialect in which the Vedas are composed, and especially that of the three first Vedas, is extremely difficult and obscure ; and though curious,...more polished and refined language (the classical Sanscrit), its difficulties must long continue to prevent such an examination of the whole Vedas as... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1848 - 784 pages
...The ancient dialect in which the Vedas are composed, and especially that of the three first Vedas, is extremely difficult: and obscure; and though curious,...more polished and refined language (the classical Sanscrit), its difficulties must long continue to prevent such an examination of the whole Vedas as... | |
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They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole; and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader; much less that of the translator. 
