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Indian Culture (Journal of the Indian Research Institute) April 1937

1937

In Bhagavad Gitd X. 38 Krishna speaks of himself as ' the silence of the hidden ones (mattna gukt-iyant) mad the gnosis of the Gnostics ' (jfietnain jfianvatc7m) ; where manna corresponds to the familiar muni ' silent sage '. This is not of course to say that He does not also ' speaks ' but that his speaking is simply the manifestation and not an affetion of the Silence ; as the Brhad [...] Just as the kindling of Agni is the making perceptible and evident of a hidden light so the utterance of the chants is the making perceptible of a silent principle of sound. [...] For as it is said in the Himalayas during the rainy season when the rains are incessant as it is impossible to dig up any bulb or root or to get any wild fruits and the leaves begin to fall the ascetics for the most part come down from the Himalayas and take up their abode amidst the haunts of men.2 After the rains were over they returned to the mountains for then the flowers and fruits b [...] ' Not only did world-sick old people renounce the world but even kings who were in undisputed possession of sovereignty and in the fulness of their power ; young princes preferred the severe life of the ascetic to the glitter of sovereign power rich tradesmen gave away their riches and heads of families their wives and children in order to build a but in the forests of the Himalayas and to live [...] The prince of the Yuvaiijaya Jeitaka 2 sees some dew-drops (ussavabindu) which sparkled in the early morning like pearls in a necklace on the leaves of the trees on blades of grass and in the webs of the spiders disappearing in the evening and he says to himself : Even this life this being is like the dedrop which hangs from the top of the blade of grass. I will become an ascetic
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Pages
238
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120020
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Vedic Doctrine of ‘ Silence ’
559-570 Ananda Coomaraswamy view
Asceticism in Pre-Buddhist Days
571-584 Ratilal Mehta view
Early History of the Guhilots
585-604 Anilchandra Banerjee view
Domestic Rites and Rituals
605-612 Girija Majumdar view
Asses Horses and Gandharvas
613-620 Jean Przyluski view
Traces of Ugrian Occupation of India
621-632 B. Bonnerjea view
The Theology and Philosophy of Bengal Vaisnavism V the Bhakti-Samdarbha
633-652 S.K. De view
Towards a History of the Khandha-Doctrine
653-662 C.A.F. Davids view
A Sumero-Babylonian Inscription Discovered at Mohenjo-Daro
663-674 C.L. Fabri view
Use and Abuse of Alamkara in Sanskrit Literature
675-706 V. Raghavan view
Mohenjo Daro the People and the Land
707-720 H. Heras view
The Asvins and the Great Goddess
721-726 A. Keith view
A Fresh Hoard of so-called Puri Kushan Coins
727-730 Sushil Bose view
Ancient Indian Tribes
731-738 B.C. Law view
A Note on the Lineage of Pushyamitra
739-741 H.C. Chaudhuri view
Magna Est Veritas Et Praevalebit
741-742 G.C. Chaudhuri view
Is the Dhamma ‘Atakkavacara’ not within the Realm of Logical Thought?
742-743 Narada view
Vimuttimagga and Petakopadesa
743-746 P.V. Bapat view
Janamejaya and Janaka
747-751 Dines Sircar view
Bhanudatta Author of the Parijata and Bhanudatta Author of the Rasamanjari
751-756 P.K. Gode view
The Laksana Abhinava and Kuntaka
756-759 V. Raghavan view
A Note on the Asvamedha
759-760 Amalananda Ghosh view
Anatta = Nama-Rupa
760-761 Ananda Coomaraswamy view
Bantia Plates of Dharasena II Dated Gupta Samvat 257 or 254?
761-762 Dhirendra Mookerjea view
A New Type of Yaudheya Coin
762-763 Bhramar Ghosh view
Asvamedha and Rajasuya
763-764 Bhramar Ghosh view
Reviews
765-774 unknown view
Important Contributions to Oriental Journals
775-777 unknown view
Obituary Notice M. Winternitz
778-778 B.C. Law view
Index
779-784 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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