 | Edward Byles Cowell, William Frederick Webster - 1866 - 334 ˹éÒ
...Wilson's work enables the English reader to know what the Hindus themselves suppose the Rig-Veda to mean. It is easy to depreciate native commentators, but it is not so easy to supersede them ; and until we have more materials for comparison and study, the arbitrary guesses which are often indulged... | |
 | Edward Byles Cowell, William Frederick Webster - 1866 - 336 ˹éÒ
...Wilson's work enables the English reader to know what the Hindus themselves suppose the Rig-Veda to mean. It is easy to depreciate native commentators, but...supersede them; and while I would by no means uphold Sayana as infallible, I confess that, in the present early stage of Vaidik studies in Europe, it seems... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1883 - 750 ˹éÒ
...Wilson's work enables the English reader to know what the Hindus themselves suppose the Rig Veda to mean. It is easy to depreciate native commentators, but it is not so easy to supersede them ; and while 1 would by no means uphold Sayana as infallible, I confess that, in the present early stage of Vaidik... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1883 - 702 ˹éÒ
...Wilson's work enables the English reader to know what the Hindus themselves suppose the Rig Veda to mean. It is easy to depreciate native commentators, but...supersede them ; and while I would by no means uphold Sdyana as infallible, I confess that, in the present early stage of Vaidik studies in Europe, it seems... | |
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Sayana as infallible, I confess that, in the present early stage of Vaidik studies in Europe, it seems to me the safer course to follow native tradition rather than to accept too readily the arbitrary conjectures which continental scholars so often hazard. 