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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, I missed this precious gem.

[quote]I've read some English translations of Sanskrit texts, and I've never come across them replacing individual gods with just the name "God." I'm not sure where you are experiencing this. Are you actually reading [b]scholarly translations[/b]?[/quote]

I've read Griffith and Muller's translations of the Vedas directly, as they are widely available. Griffith has only translated 928 hymns of the Rig Veda (there are 1017 in total). And Griffith's index has Griffith coming up with his own interpretation of "samudra", which should mean "cosmic ocean". Then there's Muller, who doesn't divide the verses, also left the hymns incomplete, also sometimes gives his own explanations without quoting, and came up with Aryan theories, so that's great. Both Muller and Griffith were Christian missionaries, and they do not untangle the metaphors and puns in the Vedas, and put an interpretation influenced by their worldview.

And the translations that reduce the Gods to "God" are the ones by Devi Chand, which are quite popular.[/quote]

I love the PP's idea that "scholarly translations" are trustworthy just because they are written by academics.[/quote]

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