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As sure as the six Romance dialects point to an original home of Italian shepherds on the seven hills at Rome, the Aryan languages together point to … - Friedrich Max Müller
" "As sure as the six Romance dialects point to an original home of Italian shepherds on the seven hills at Rome, the Aryan languages together point to an earlier period of language, when the first ancestors of the Indians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Slaves, the Celts, and the Germans were living together within the same enclosures, nay, under the same roof. . . . Before the ancestors of the Indians and Persians started for the south, and the leaders of the Greek, Roman, Celtic, Teutonic, and Slavonic colo- nies marched towards the shores of Europe, there was a small clan of Aryans, settled probably on the highest elevation of Central Asia, speaking a language, not yet Sanskrit or Greek or German, but containing the dialectic germs of all; a clan that had advanced to a state of agricultural civilisation; that had recognised the bonds of blood, and sanctioned the bonds of marriage; and that invoked the Giver of Light and Life in heaven by the same name which you may still hear in the temples of Benares, in the basilicas of Rome, and in our own churches and cathedrals.
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About Friedrich Max Müller
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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Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller
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The hostile spirit of a party, which has been working for the last years, particularly in this country, to attack all the theories of the Sanscrit antiquarians, has chosen the modern languages of India as a weak point, in order to prove that, as they have no connexion by their grammatical system with the pretended old language of India, the Sanscrit, this sacred language itself has never exercised any real influence upon the people, just as they have tried to prove that the literature, the religion, morals and philosophy of the Brahmins have never historically existed but in the hands of some foreign intriguing priests.
मेघ उस वृष्टिदाता की देह बन गया; वह ‘दाता’ कहीं अन्यत्र था, किन्तु हम नहीं जान पाए कि वह कहाँ था या कहाँ है। किन्हीं मंत्रों में ‘पर्जन्य’ ‘द्यौ:’ के पद तक पहुँचा हुआ प्रतीत होता है और पृथ्वी उसकी पत्नी है। अन्य जगह पर्जन्य को द्यौ: का पुत्र बताया गया है, यद्यपि उस प्रारम्भिक स्थिति में यह नहीं सोचा जा सका कि इस प्रकार पर्जन्य अपनी माता का ही पति लग सकता है।
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