এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা প্রয়োজন।
( . ) Weda itself; but were either then abrogated and an emblematical ceremony substituted in their place, or they must have been introduced in later times, on the authority of certain Puranas or Tantras fabricated by persons who, in this, as in other matters, established many unjustifiable practices, on the foundation of emblems and alegories which they misunderstood. (“Sacred writings of the lindoos' Collebrooke--Wol I pp 61-62.)
