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Whatever the Vedas may be called, they are to us unique and priceless guides in opening before our eyes tombs of thought richer in relics than the ro… - Friedrich Max Müller
" "Whatever the Vedas may be called, they are to us unique and priceless guides in opening before our eyes tombs of thought richer in relics than the royal tombs of Egypt, and more ancient and primitive in thought than the oldest hymns of Babylonian or Accadian poets. If we grant that they belonged to the second millennium before our era, we are probably on safe ground, though we should not forget that this is a constructive date only, and that such a date does not become positive by mere repetition. ... Whatever may be the date of the Vedic hymns, whether 1500 or 15,000 B.C., they have their own unique place and stand by themselves in the literature of the world.
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Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller (or Mueller), was a German philologist and Orientalist, who was a major pioneer of the discipline of comparative religion.
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ऋग्वेद पढ़नेवाले प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी को आठ वर्ष तक गुरु के घर में बिताना होता है। उसे दस ग्रन्थ पढ़ने होते हैं : प्रथम, ऋग्वेद की ऋचाएँ, फिर यज्ञों का गद्य ग्रन्थ जिसे ब्राह्मण कहते हैं, फिर अरण्यक, फिर घरू समारोहों के नियमों को, और अन्त में शिक्षा, व्याकरण, कल्प, निरुक्त, छन्द और ज्योतिष का अध्ययन करना पड़ता है।
I need hardly say that I agree with almost every word of my critics. I have repeatedly dwelt on the merely hypothetical character of the dates, which I have ventured to assign to first periods of Vedic literature. All I have claimed for them has been that they are minimum dates, and that the literary productions of each period which either still exist or which formerly existed could hardly be accounted for within shorter limits of time than those suggested. ... If now we ask as to how we can fix the dates of these periods, it is quite clear that we cannot hope to fix a terminum a qua [sic]. Whether the Vedic hymns were composed [in] 1000 or 2000 or 3000 years BC, no power on earth will ever determine.
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