ज्यूस में आकाश का कुछ है, पोसीडोन में समुद्र का कुछ है, रेडस में पाताल का, अपोलो में सूर्य का, आरटेमिस में चन्द्रमा का, हेफोस्टोस में अग्नि का कुछ है। - Friedrich Max Müller

how small a strip has as yet been explored of the vast continent of Sanskrit literature, and how much still remains terra incognita.

I maintain then that for a study of man, or, if you like, for a study of Aryan humanity, there is nothing in the world equal in importance with the Veda. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself, for his ancestors, for his history, or for his intellectual development, a study of Vedic literature is indispensable; and that, as an element of liberal education, it is far more important and far more improving than the reigns of Babylonian and Persian kings.

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.