- The Vedas and their antiquity
- The place of the Vedas in the Hindu mind
- Classification of the Vedic literature
- The Sa@mhitas
- The Brahma@nas
- The Ara@nyakas
- The @Rg-Veda, its civilization
- The Vedic Gods
- Polytheism, Henotheism and Monotheism
- Growth of a Monotheistic tendency; Prajapati, Vis'vakarma
- Brahma
- Sacrifice; the First Rudiments of the Law of Karma
- Cosmogony--Mythological and philosophical
- Eschatology; the Doctrine of Atman
- Conclusion