Rig-Veda Sanhitá: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns, Constituting the Second Ashtaka, or Book, of the Rig-Veda; The Oldest Authority for the ... From the Original Sanskrit (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rig-Veda Sanhitá

The publication Of the text of the second division Of the Eig Veda, by Professor Muller, affords safe authority for the continuance of the translation, which is therefore now Offered to the public, under the same liberal patronage of the Court Of Directors of the east-india Company under which the pre ceding volume appeared, and Without which it would probably have been withheld from the press: little interest in the work having been manifested in this country, however indispensable the Vedas may be to an accurate knowledge of the religious Opinions of the ancient world, and of the primaeval institu tions of the Hindus.