"Veda" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as almost unfairly great."[1] Writing in an India paper, The Kayestha Samachar, in August, 1902, a Hindu writer said: "I am not a Christian; but half an hour's study of the Bible will do more to remodel a man than a whole day spent in repeating the slokas of the Purinas or the mantras of the Rig-Veda." In the earlier chapters of the Koran Christians are frequently spoken of as "people of the Book." It is a suggestive phrase. If Christianity has any value for American life, then the Bible has just that value. Christianity is made by the Bible; it has never ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee
... as I had been able to follow, Mrs. Veda Blair's story had dealt mostly with a Professor and Madame Rapport and something she called the "Red Lodge" of the "Temple of ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... what wonderful goal—by means of these obscure difficult politics: almost unworthy instruments, one is tempted to think. That was a true line you quoted lately from the "Vita Nuova." We have no books of poetry here, except a Lithuanian translation of the Rig Veda. How delightful it must be to read Dante with a sympathetic fellow-student, one who has also ...
— Old Friends - Essays in Epistolary Parody • Andrew Lang
... religions. With this motive he began the study of Arabic, Persian, and finally Sanskrit, devoting himself more especially to the latter under Brockhaus and Rueckert, and subsequently under Burnouf, who persuaded him to undertake the colossal work of editing the Rig-veda. ...
— My Autobiography - A Fragment • F. Max Mueller
... sloth's determined foe; Of scholars chief, who to the Veda cling; Rich in the riches that ascetics know; Glad, gainst the foeman's elephant to show His valor;—such was Shudraka, the ...
— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka |
