 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - Hinduism - 1837 - 610 pages
...heroic history of the lunar and solar races, received by the orthodox Hindus; an evident sign, that liis sect is subsequent to that, in which this fabulous...their legendary tales, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant. But the Jainas and Bauddhas surpass them in monstrous exaggerations of... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - Hinduism - 1837 - 596 pages
...an argument deduced from the aggravated extravagance of the fictions admitted by the sects of JIN A and BUDDHA. The mythology of the orthodox Hindus,...their legendary tales, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant. But the Jainas and Bauddhas surpass them in monstrous exaggerations of... | |
 | India - 1847 - 632 pages
...with an eye of favour, in his last Essay confesses, that the mythology of die orthodox Hindus, then- present chronology adapted to astronomical periods,...their legendary tales, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant." — Quarterly Review, Vol. 1, pp 60-87. " We do not believe that even... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - Hindu philosophy - 1858 - 338 pages
...the heroic history of the lunar and solar races, received by the orthodox Hindus; an evident sign , i that his sect is subsequent to that , in which this...their legendary tales, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant. But the Jainas and Bauddhas surpass them in monstrous exaggerations of... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - Hindu philosophy - 1858 - 364 pages
...the Jainas, with whom the legendary story of their saints also seems to be engrafted on the paurdnic tales of the orthodox sect. Sufficient indication...their legendary tales, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant. But the Jainas and Bauddhas surpass them in monstrous exaggerations of... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1873 - 552 pages
...orthodox sect. Sufficient indication of this will appear, in the passages which will be subsequently eked from the writings of the Jainas. Considerable weight...chronology adapted to astronomical periods, their legendary taies, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant. Bat the Jainas and Bauddhas surpass them... | |
 | India - 1882 - 766 pages
...with an eye of favour, in his last Essay confesses, that the mythology of the orthodox Hindu, that present chronology adapted to astronomical periods,...their legendary tales, their mystical allegories, are abundantly extravagant." — Quarterly Review, Vol. \.pp. 66-67. " We do not believe that even... | |
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Hindus; an evident sign, that liis sect is subsequent to that, in which this fabulous history is original. The same remark is applicable to the Jainas, with whom the legendary story of their saints also seems to be engrafted on the pauranic tales of the... 