CONTENTS:Assyria ? BabyloniaThe Babylonian Account of CreationThe Chaldaean Flood StoryThe Legend of SargonIshtar?s Descent into the Nether WorldPenitential HymnsLawsEgyptThe Book of the DeadHymn to the Nile?First Hand Observations?, by HerodotusThe JewsReferencesThe BrahmansVedic HymnsHymn to the Unknown GodHymn to VataHymn to Agni and the MarutsHymn to the MarutsHymn to the MarutsHymn to RudraHymn to VayuHymn to Agni and the MarutsHymn to RudraThe Katha UpanishadTeaching of Yagnavalkya (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)The Khandogya UpanishadLaws of ManuThe Beginnings of ThingsLaws of the CastesThe Transmigration of SoulsBuddhist IdeasFoundation of the Kingdom of RighteousnessOn Knowledge of the VedasAll the AsavasThe Last Days of BuddhaDhammapadaZarathustra (Zoroaster)Gatha AhunavaitiGatha UstavaitiK?ung-Fu-Tsze (Confucius)Sayings

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