The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is … - Friedrich Max Müller
" "The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.
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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हे गंगा, यमुना, सरस्वती, शुतुद्रि, परुष्णी मेरी स्तुति स्वीकार करो। हे मरुद्वरीधा अस्किनी के साथ और हे अर्गिकीया सुशोमा के साथ, मेरी स्तुति सुनो। तुम त्रिस्तमा, ससर्तु, कुभा, गोमती, मेहत्नू तथा क्रमु आदि अपने दाएँ बहने वाली नदियों को साथ कर अपनी यात्रा पर निकल रही हो। यह सिन्धु अपनी जगमग शानदार जलप्रवाहों को इस विशाल भू भाग में इतनी तीव्रता से प्रवाहित होती चलती है, जैसे कोई सुन्दर घोड़ी जा रही हो।
Still the child betrays the passions of the man, and there are hymns, though few in number, in the Veda, so full of thought and speculation that at this early period no poet in any other nation could have conceived them. I give but one specimen, the 129th hymn of the tenth book of the Rig-veda. It is a hymn which long ago attracted the attention of that eminent scholar H. T. Colebrooke, and of which, by the kind assistance of a friend, I am enabled to offer a metrical translation. In judging it we should hear in mind that it was not written by a gnostic or by a pantheistic philosopher, but by a poet who felt all these doubts and problems as his own, without any wish to convince or to startle, only uttering what had been weighing on his mind, just as later poets would sing the doubts and sorrows of their heart.
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