Annotations on the sacred writings of the Hindüs : being an epitome of some of the most remarkable and leading tenets in the faith of that people / by Edward Sellon.

  • Sellon, Edward, 1818?-1866.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Annotations on the sacred writings of the Hindüs : being an epitome of some of the most remarkable and leading tenets in the faith of that people / by Edward Sellon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    fraught with interest to every cultivated mind, and offers an affecting but curious example of the power of a hoary and terrible superstition in degrading and enslaving so large a portion of the human race. The sources from whence much of the material in this compilation are derived, are acknowledged in numerous notes. It does not come within the compass of this sketch to enumerate all the theological dogmas con- tained in the Sacrecl Writings of the Hindus ; those only have been selected for annotation and remark which seemed to have the most direct bearing on the object in view, in the elucidation of the worship of Power—the Gnosticism of India.