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Sacred Books of the East. 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.
He directed the preparation of the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations which continued after his death. Müller became a professor at Oxford University , [ 3 ] first of modern languages, [ 4 ] then of comparative philology [ 3 ] in a position founded for him, and which he held for the rest of his life.
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 Dharmasutra is attributed to Apastamba, the founder of a Shakha (Vedic school) of Yajurveda. [2] According to the Hindu tradition, Apastamba was the student of Baudhayana, and himself had a student named Hiranyakesin.
Kalpa is a Sanskrit word that means "proper, fit, competent, sacred precept", and also refers to one of the six Vedanga fields of study. [7] In Vedanga context, the German Indologist Max Muller translates it as "the Ceremonial".