"For Gonda, “chariot drives and other races have often the function of regenerating the productive forces in nature,” …"

"Gonda (1975: 65–67) emphasized the “inspired vision of the universal order” expressed in the hymns, in which a “rsi s…"

"In all times and among many peoples there have ... been men, who were aware of the reality of "visions" and intuition…"

"Besides the uncertain date of the Avesta, the cases of cultural, stylistic and lexicographical parallelism between te…"

"Many places in the Vedic literature attest to what may be called a pre-scientific interest in and study of the world,…"

"Technology...has become the prime source of material change and so determines the pattern of the total social fabric."

"H. Kern in his book Over het woord Zarathushtra (1867) states, “the Bactrian (i.e. Avestan) is so (greatly) related t…"

"German orientalists, A.W. Schlegel claimed in 1819, were not suited to be missionaries or colonizers: “... on the oth…"

"Peter von Bohlen claimed in 1835, the historian of the Orient must treat all people equally: ‘... he must learn to re…"

"At intermediate points along the way, individual verses and entire hymns were inserted into the RV collection."