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VEDIC HYMNS.
aware that much of what has been done and can be done in the present state of Vedic scholarship, is only a kind of reconnaissance, if not a forlorn hope, to be followed hereafter by a patient siege of the hitherto impregnable fortress of ancient Vedic literature.
F. MAX MÜLLER. OXFORD: 6th Dec. 1891.
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