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" They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole : and what they contain, would hardly reward the labour of the reader ; much less, that of the translator. "
Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal ... - Page 497
by Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1808
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Physical Religion: The Gifford Lectures - Delivered Before the University of ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Anyi (African people) - 1891 - 434 pages
...to devote themselves to Vedic studies, by saying, as he does at the end of his essay : ' The Vedas are too voluminous for a complete translation of the...reward the labour of the reader, much less that of the translator.1 Interest aroused in Germany. Still the curiosity of the learned world had been roused,...
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The Upanishads, Volumes 1-2

Friedrich Max Müller - Hinduism - 1897 - 850 pages
...considered ' the Vedas \ as too voluminous for a complete translation of the ' whole,' adding that ' what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader ; much less that of the translator1.' The former went still further in the condemnation which he pronounced on Anquetil Duperron's...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1987 - 514 pages
...Aside from offering extracts and describing the Vedas (in order "to convey some notion of" them because they "are too voluminous for a complete translation...whole: and what they contain, would hardly reward labour of the reader; much less, that of the translator"), Colebrooke speculates on their composition:...
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The Vedic Origins of Karma: Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual

Herman Wayne Tull - Religion - 1989 - 196 pages
...of the nineteenth century in Vedic studies. Colebrooke concluded his essay by stating that the Vedas "are too voluminous for a complete translation of...whole; and what they contain would hardly reward the labor of the reader; much less that of the translator" (Colebrooke, "On the Vedas," p. 476). In the...
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Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia

Carol A. Breckenridge, Peter van der Veer - History - 1993 - 376 pages
...to elicit much enthusiasm. Colebrooke was to conclude a first survey of the Vedas with the judgment, "what they contain, would hardly reward the labour of the reader; much less that of the translator," though he conceded that "they well deserve to be occasionally consulted by the oriental scholar" (1805:...
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The Hindu Pantheon

Edward Moor - Art, Hindu - 1999 - 702 pages
...COLBBKOKB'I Essay on the Vedat,— " The preceding description may serve to convey some notion of the VeJas. —They are too voluminous for a complete translation...would hardly reward the labour of the reader— much leu that of the translator. The ancient dialect in which they are composed, and especially that of...
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Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective

Sharada Sugirtharajah - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...up his view quoting Colebrooke who saw the Veda as being "too voluminous for a complete translation, and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader, much less that of the translator" (ibid.). Clearly, there is an ulterior motive behind Miiller's massive translation enterprise. His...
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Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons

Rita Sherma, Arvind Sharma - Philosophy - 2008 - 255 pages
...his view by quoting Colebrooke who saw the Veda as being "too voluminous for a complete translation, and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader, much less that of the translator" (ibid.:368). Trope of the Child One of the significant features of postcolonial discourse is theorization...
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