India, what Can it Teach Us?: A Course of LecturesLongmans, Green, 1883 - 402 pages |
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Agni ancestors ancient Aryan Asanga ascribed Bâna Bhao Daji Bhartrihari Bombay Brahman Buddhist Bühler called century A. D. character Chinese commentary Devas dialect Dignaga doubt Dyaus existence fact father Gaina give gods grammar Greek Harsha Heaven and Earth Hindus Hiouen-thsang human hymns I-tsing India Indian Antiquary Indra Indus inscriptions Journal Kalidasa Kanishka Kasmira king known language Lectures literary lived Manu Mayûra means mentioned native nature never originally Parganya Perkuna Persian Pitris poems Pravarasena pref Professor pupil Purânas quoted rain reign religion Rig-veda rivers Romans Royal Asiatic Society sacrifices Saka Saka era Samvat Sanskrit literature scholars seems Siladitya slokas speak Srâddha supposed Sûtras tell thou thought translation true truth Vâmana Varâhamihira Varuna Vasubandhu Veda Vedic poets verses Vikrama Vikramaditya village whole word worship Yueh-chi zodiacal
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Page 11 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Page 6 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India...
Page 182 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 62 - ... luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilised people — -then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilisation is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo.
Page 200 - This earth, too, belongs to Varuna, the king, and this wide sky with its ends far apart. The two seas (the sky and the ocean) are Varuna's loins ; he is also contained in this small drop of water. He who should flee far beyond the sky, even he would not be rid of Varuna, the king. His spies proceed from heaven towards this world ; with thousand eyes they overlook this earth.
Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through ; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Page 32 - Persia on our left : whilst a breeze from Arabia, blew nearly on our stern. A situation so pleasing in itself, and to me so new, could not fail to awaken a train of reflections in a mind, which had early been accustomed to contemplate with delight, the eventful histories and agreeable fictions of the eastern world.
Page 142 - A twice-born man (that is, a Brahma«.a, a Kshatriya, and a Vaisya) not having studied the Veda, soon falls, even when living, to the condition of a /Sudra, and his descendants after him." How far this license of ignorant assertion may be carried is shown by the same authorities who denied the importance of the Veda for a historical study of Indian thought, boldly charging those wily priests, the Brahmans, with having withheld their sacred literature from any but their own caste. Now, so far from....
Page 248 - No mortal lives by the breath that goes up and by the breath that goes down. We live by another, in whom these two repose.
Page 235 - Formerly men and gods lived together in this world. Then the gods in reward of their sacrifices went to heaven, but men were left behind. Those men who perform sacrifices in the same manner as the gods did, dwelt (after death) with the gods and Brahman in heaven. Now (seeing men left behind) Manu revealed this ceremony which is designated by the word Jraddha.
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India: The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism Kamakshi Murti No preview available - 2001 |