At the present its principles are to be found in the holy book called Puranas; the Brahminism of the Puranas standing in the same relation to certain earlier forms, as the Rabbinism of the talmud, or the Romanism of the fathers does to primitive Judaism and Christianity.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
In the talmud P'sachim, fol.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Not so a Lithuanian-he learned a whole treatise of the talmud by heart!
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz