 | 1842 - 666 pàgines
...irrational to dispute the antiquity or authenticity of the greater portion of the contents of the Purant, in the face of abundant positive and circumstantial...at least three centuries before the Christian era. All, therefore, that is contained in these Notes is a strange jumble of authorities misunderstood or... | |
 | Fitzedward Hall - 1864 - 388 pàgines
...of ancient materials; and it is, therefore, as idle as it is irrational, to dispute the antiquity or authenticity of the greater portion of the contents...at least three centuries before the Christian era. But the origin and development of their doctrines, traditions, and institutions were not the work of... | |
 | Fitzedward Hall - 1870 - 438 pàgines
...of ancient materials; and it is, therefore, as idle as it is irrational, to dispute the antiquity or authenticity of the greater portion of the contents of the Puranas, in the face of abundant posi* This has never beeu proved. f As to their predictions and all? tive and circumstantial evidence... | |
 | John Garrett - 1871 - 980 pàgines
...aucient materials ; and it is, therefore, as idle as it is irrational, to dispute the autiquity or authenticity of the greater portion of the contents...at least three centuries before the Christian era. But the origin and development of their doctrines, traditions, and institutions were not the work of... | |
 | John Garrett (director of public instruction in Mysore.) - 1871 - 814 pàgines
...materials , and it is, therefore, as idle as it is irrational, to dispute the antiquity or anthenticity of the greater portion of the contents of the Puranas,...at least three centuries before the Christian era. But the Origin and development of their doctrines, traditions, and institutions were not the work of... | |
 | John Garrett - 1871 - 814 pàgines
...materials ; and it is, therefore, as idle as it is irrational, to dispute the antiquity or anthenticity of the greater portion of the contents of the Puranas,...at least three centuries before the Christian era. But the origin and development of their doctrines, traditions, and institutions were not the work of... | |
 | John Garrett - 1871 - 978 pàgines
...irrational, to dispute the antiquity or authenticity of the greater portion of the contents of the Purauas, in the face of abundant positive and circumstantial...at least three centuries before the Christian era. But the origin and development of their doctrines, traditions, and institutions were not the work of... | |
 | Charles Burlingame Waite - 1881 - 494 pàgines
...London, 1SC4. 'Vishnu Parana,' that he had himself, in his Preface to that work, stated, that there is ''abundant positive and circumstantial evidence of the prevalence of the doctrines which they [the Purauas] teach, the currency of the legends which they narrate, and the integrity of the institutions... | |
 | Charles Burlingame Waite - 1881 - 492 pàgines
..."abundant positive and circumstantial evidence of the prevalence of the doctrines which they [the Puranas] teach, the currency of the legends which they narrate,...describe, at least three centuries before the Christian era."1 This concession, Col. Kennedy thinks, leaves it comparatively unimportant when the Puranas assumed... | |
 | Charles John Stone - 1885 - 368 pàgines
...knowledge, &c. &c. Indeed Professor Wilson says that "it is irrational to dispute the antiquity or authenticity of the greater portion of the contents...of the doctrines which they teach, the currency of legends which they narrate, and the integrity of the institutions which they describe, at least in... | |
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Puranas, in the face of abundant positive and circumstantial evidence of the prevalence of the doctrines which they teach, the currency of the legends which they narrate, and the integrity of the institutions which they describe, at least three centuries... 
