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These most remarkable poems
contain almost all the history of
ancient India, so far as it can be
recovered; together with such
inexhaustible details of its political,,
social and religious life, that the
unique Hindu world really stands
epitomised in them.
The
 
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stories, songs, and ballads; the histories.
and genealogies; the nursery tales and
religious discourses ; the art, the
learning, the philosophy, the creeds, the
moralities, the modes of thought,
the
 
sayings, terms
and daily ideas of
are taken from
these poems."-Sir Edwin Arnold.
 
very phrases,
of expression
the Hindu people