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The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious texts, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism , Buddhism , Taoism , Confucianism , Zoroastrianism , Jainism , and Islam .
Subject Area - subject area of the book; Topic - topic (within the subject area) Collection - belongs to a collection listed in the table above; Date - date (year range) book was written/composed; Reign of - king/ruler in whose reign this book was written (occasionally a book could span reigns) Reign Age - extent of the reign
Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual authors).
The Rigveda (Vedic chant) manuscript in Devanagari, a scripture of Hinduism, dated 1500–1000 BCE.It is the oldest religious text in any Indo-European language. A Sephardic Torah scroll, containing the first section of the Hebrew Bible, rolled to the first paragraph of the Shema.
Sacred laws of the Aryas (I, 1879; II, 1883; vols. 2 and 14, "The Sacred Books of the East") Third book of sanscrit (1877; 1888) Leitfaden für den Elementarcursus des Sanskrit (1883) Inscriptions from the caves of the Bombay presidency ("Archaeological reports of Western India", 1883) Paleographic remarks on the Horrinzi palmleaf manuscript ...
The Buddha-karita of Asvaghosha, translated from the Sanskrit, in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. 49, Oxford University Press, 1894. The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births , Vol.1-6, Cambridge at the University Press (1895).
Aitareya Upanishad is a primary ancient Upanishad, and is listed as number 8 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. Considered one of the middle Upanishads, the date of composition is not known but has been estimated by scholars to be sometime around 6th or 5th century BCE.
Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, 14 volumes (1917) The Great Events by Famous Historians; The Works of Jules Verne, 15 volumes (1911) The Protevangelium or Original Gospel of James; Source Records of the Great War ISBN 4-87187-873-2; The Stories of the Greatest Nations (with Edward S. Ellis) ISBN 4-87187-874-0