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- . - tate before.we deny to the Aryan nations an instinctive Mohotheism.” Ibid, page 568.
“In the same hymn one verse occurs which boldly declares the existence of but some Divine Being, though invoked under different mames (Rv. I. 164. 46) “They call him Indra, Mitra, Waruna, Agni; then he is the well-winged heavenly Garutimat; that which is One the wise call it many ways; they call it Agni, Yama Mātarisyan.” Ibid, page 567. “It cannot be denied that the early Indians possessed a knowledge of the true God. All their writings are replete with sentiments and expressions, noble, clear, severely grand, as deeply conceived as in any human language in which men have spoken of their God.” Erederick Schlegel's Wisdom of the Ancient Indians, হিন্দুধৰ্ম্ম এবং হিন্দুধর্মের সহিত ব্রাহ্মধর্মের সম্বন্ধ বিষয়ে ব্রাহ্মদিগের অভিপ্রায় । The Friend of India describes in glowing terms the sacrifices made by the followers of the Christian religion—and the instances he cites are indeed striking. But we humbly maintain that Hinduism does not yield to the Christian Religion in that respect. The ancient Munis and Rishis used to live in forests leaving all worldly comforts in a state of the greatest self-imposed poverty for the purpose of prayer and meditation. The ceremonics of Agni3ratesha or self ceremation, Prayaopaveshana or fasting one's self to death and Panchatapa or accustoming one's self to the xtremes of heat and cold by sitting in the midst of blazing fire in lummer and exposing himself to the snows in the time of severe winter, performed in ancient times, testify to the ន, spirit of w भ
