The Religions of India
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, xxxiii. P. 631 ; Arjuna, ein Beitrag zur Reconstruction des Ma- habharata, 1879. But in all these writings the devas, so to speak, dis- appear as soon as the question be- comes one of speculation or the cosmogony. According to Manu they came into existence along with men and inferior beings, although after the production of the elementary principles and the demiurgic powers, the Manus and the Prajapatis, per- sonages who, taken separately, be- long nearly all to the ancient litera- ture (bein...g for the most part Vedic rishis), but who are new in this character, and so grouped in classes, Manu, i. 5-8. This cosmogonic my- thology occurs again in the epic and all the Puranas, with an endless number of variations in detail, but such as do not affect the system, which remains the same at bottom. The principal difference is that in the Puranas it is subordinated to the great sectarian divinities, and, above all, enlarged to a prodigious 94 THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA.
Throiigli their eclectic and monotheistic tendency, these books contributed to the formation of a certain orthodoxy in the bosom of Brahmanism.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
, xxxiii. P. 631 ; Arjuna, ein Beitrag zur Reconstruction des Ma- habharata, 1879. But in all these writings the devas, so to speak, dis- appear as soon as the question be- comes one of speculation or the cosmogony. According to Manu they came into existence along with men and inferior beings, although after the production of the elementary principles and the demiurgic powers, the Manus and the Prajapatis, per- sonages who, taken separately, be- long nearly all to the ancient litera- ture (bein...g for the most part Vedic rishis), but who are new in this character, and so grouped in classes, Manu, i. 5-8. This cosmogonic my- thology occurs again in the epic and all the Puranas, with an endless number of variations in detail, but such as do not affect the system, which remains the same at bottom. The principal difference is that in the Puranas it is subordinated to the great sectarian divinities, and, above all, enlarged to a prodigious 94 THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA.
Throiigli their eclectic and monotheistic tendency, these books contributed to the formation of a certain orthodoxy in the bosom of Brahmanism.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Auguste Barth to read onlineMoreLess
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