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India: What Can It Teach Us [Paperback]

Max F. Muller (Author), Tedd St Rain (Preface), Alexander Wilder (Introduction)
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July 1, 1999
Max Muller was one of the most respected religious authorities of his time. His accomplishments include translating The Upanishads and editing a massive collection of work called The Sacred Books of the East.

Some of the most valuable and instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only. In her classic dialect, the Sanskrit, we may read with what success ancient India conquered the elements and the world as it was then known.

The study of Sanskrit, and particularly a study of the Vedic Sanskrit, is able to enlighten us and illuminate the darkest passages in the history of the human mind.

This book gives the reader some idea of ancient India, of its ancient literature, and, more particularly, of its ancient religion. Muller will help you see and feel what it was like in ancient India, and the importance that it played in the history of the human race.


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Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was a great linguist and scholar born in Germany. His publications include a Sanskrit translation of Kalidas's Meghaduta, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, and Introduction to the Science of Religion. Before his death in 1900 at Oxford, he was crowned with most honours and awards a scholar could aspire for. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 284 pages
  • Publisher: Book Tree (July 1, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1585090646
  • ISBN-13: 978-1585090648
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,875,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Prof Muller And Modern Indology, April 23, 2003
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Although he was a pioneer among 19th century scholars who tried evaluating the real thought behind what is generally brushed aside as "Indian Mysticism", it is a an open question as to his legacy. A legacy which is used neither by the modern Indologist circles nor by the indian traditionalists. The book is an effort to best describe Vedic India, as Muller saw with tools and resources best known to him.

Besides throwing open the possibilities for comparative religion of the Ancient Indo-Europeans with his book, Science of Mythology, this work will be remembered for being sincerely a tribute to the ancient, but not yet lost, Bharat.

Max Muller deserves the respect of Indian Traditions & Modern Indologists. Modern Indology needs to be sympathetic not only to Bharat but the entire INdo-European Heritage as well.

It has been a pleasure for me to have gifted my only copy of this book to some people from Germany whom I came across on a journey. But this book speaks of an age long gone and a land not existing anymore.

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