Word: veda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snake charmers and fire walkers and clever elephants is exceeded in interest and enchantment only perhaps by the richness and beauty of its philosophy and literature. On a carpet woven of these finest thoughts and sentiments of India the Vagabond is thus flying today. It is the "Rig Veda." To those who would be led by this sacred book they will find a journey equal in length to the works of Homer, and in beauty comparable to the Bible. Perhaps in no other literature is the worship of the personified powers of nature so beautifully expressed and faithfully followed...
...happy Vagabond has drunk of the magic Soma today and is off to hear more about it and the "Rig Veda" from Professor Clark at 11 in Harvard...
Professor Clark, "The Rig Veda", Harvard...
...Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise printing of his Rig-Veda translation, stayed in England the rest of his life, became a naturalized Briton, died at last, in the fullness of years and honors...