He only shows mankind how beautiful everything is which man's hand has not yet spoiled or broken. - Friedrich Max Müller

Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.

There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in all things; a power independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense contradicted by sense and reason; but yet, I suppose, a very real power, if we see how it has held its own from the beginning of the world — how neither sense nor reason has been able to overcome it, while it alone is able to overcome both reason and sense.

वैदिक विपाश के काफी समकक्ष है, जिसका मतलब होता है ‘बन्धनहीन’। इसका आधुनिक नाम बियास या बेजाह है। पश्चिम में दूसरी नदी है वैदिक की परुष्णी, जो इरावती के नाम से ज्यादा जानी जाती थी, जिसे स्ट्राबो हयारोटेस कहता है, जबकि एरियन इसे हाइड्राओटेस कहकर ज्यादा ग्रीक रूप देता है। यह आधुनिक रावी है।