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Modern Review May 1921

1921

Theaiptroductory chapter of the Adi Parva With th a reference to the appalling tragedy of the great war at Kurukshetra in which the casualties are said to have amounted to eighteen Akshouhinis T and altogether only ten of the combatants—seven on the side of the victorious Pandavas and three on the side of the defeated Kaurasits—had survived. [...] Overborne as he was by the philosophic exhortations of Sri Krishna which form the theme of the Gecta at the end of the war how pathetic must have been his thoughts at the desolation wrought by human greed upon the lair face of his beloved motherland ! The lurid glow of the funeral pyres on the banks of the sacred Ganges and the bitter wailings and loud lamentations of the women who alone were [...] to protect herself from abduction and the fact that Viswamitra was compelled to acknowledge the superiority of the spiritual force of the Brahmanas to the physical prowess of the Kshattriyas may be taken to typify the struggle of the Brahmanas and Kshattriyas for supremacy to be followed by the victory of the former aided by the noAryan races on the borders of civilised India. [...] In fact so deeply was this idea ingrained in the minds of the people that a tax was called the salary of the king for the protection of his subjects-Rakshana-betanam; and the king who takes more than one-sixth of the produce as tribute is characterised as partaking of the nature of a thief-Chauradharminah.3 1 By prtection is of course not meant only the elemetary duty of keeping order but o [...] NIIIAL SoNI E time ago I suggested in the pages of the Modern Review the erection of a monument to Indian soldiers by the banks of the Thames—a memorial Indian in design'and executed by Indians I was therefore greatly interested in going up to Brighton to witness the unveiling by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales of the t'battri erected in memory of the Hindu and Sikh soldiers who were
government politics public policy
Pages
145
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120016
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Ramananda Chatterjee view
The Problem of Ahimsa
565-568 C.F. Andrews view
The Cake Festival
568-573 Santa Chattopadhayaya view
Social life in the Mahabahratan Age—I
573-577 unknown view
Memorial to Indian Soldiers at Brighton
578-583 Nihal Singh view
England Under Bengali Rule
583-584 unknown view
First Frontal Attack Upon the New Indian Constitution
584-591 Nihal Singh view
Thoughts on Non-Co-Operation
592-595 unknown view
Mineral Resources of India
595-596 Kalipada Ghosh view
The Way to Get it Done
596-602 Rabindranath Tagore view
A Glimpse of School Life in China
602-605 Mayce Seymour view
Purpose of Organisation
605-609 Ram Khemka view
“Snow Birds”
609-612 Jaygopal Banerji view
Letters from Rabindranath Tagore
612-617 unknown view
Indian Periodicals
617-i unknown view
Foreign Periodicals
629-637 unknown view
Gleanings
638-643 unknown view
Serpent Worship in Malabar
643-645 C. Achyuta Menon view
Images of Revanta
645-652 Nalinikanta Bhattasali view
Raja Rammohan Roy and English Education
652-654 C.F. Andrews view
Reviews and Notices of Books
654-658 unknown view
Notes
659-692 unknown view