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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ix (misinterpreted myths)

“Orientalists accord the Mahabharata an antiquity of between twelve and fifteen hundred years B.C. As to the Greek version it bears as little evidence as the other, and the attempts of the Hellenists in this direction have as signally failed. The story of the conquering army of Alexander penetrating into Northern India, itself becomes more [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ix (misinterpreted myths)

“Manu (book 1, sloka 35) gives the names of ten eminent saints whom he calls pradjapatis (more correctly pragapatis), in whom the Brahman theologians see prophets, ancestors of the human race, and the Pundits simply consider as ten powerful kings who lived in the Krita-yug, or the age of good (the golden age of the [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ix (misinterpreted myths)

“Burnouf, noticing the fact that the story of the deluge is found only in one of the most modern Brahmanas, also thinks that it might have been borrowed by the Hindus from the Semitic nations. Against such an assumption are ranged all the traditions and customs of the Hindus. The Aryans, and especially the Brahmans, [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ix (misinterpreted myths)

“The deluge appears in the Hindu books only as a tradition. It claims no sacred character, and we find it but in the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and still earlier in the Satapatha, one of the latest Brahmanas. It is more than probable that Moses, or whoever wrote for him, used these accounts as the basis [...]