Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
In treating of the Hindú religion, much confusion has arisen from considering all the nations settled in the plains, and ranging over the mountains of Hindustan, from the Himálaya to Cape Comorin, as originally embued with one faith, and following one religious ritual.
page 189 note 1 These mountains are called by the Greeks and Latins, Imaus, and Emodus; the former is the Sanskrit () Hima, with a Latin termination; and the latter Himawat, a little corrupted,—both words meaning cold, or snow.