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The Indian Historical Quarterly June 1926

1926

They compare the superstitions of the Orient with the rationalism of the Occident while they ignore the rationalism of the Orient and suppress the superstitions of the Occident. [...] They compare the thoughts and activities of the higher intellectual and economic grades of the Occident with those of the illiterates and half-fed masses of the Orient." This criticism is undoubtedly justified and applies to many of the books which are regarded as standard works upon the manners and philosophy of the East. [...] first the bhoga-rnandira on the east next the meta-mandira to its west and next the Sri-mandira to the extreme west where the symbol or image as the case may be is kept for worship ; sometimes as in the Jaganniitha temple at Puri there is a store or passage temple called jagamohana mandira between the bhoga and the nii(a or the necta and the Sri-mandira. [...] Within the Sri-mandira and round about the image or the symbol there is another narrow mangalavithi by which the devotees after the sacred ceremony of drati go round the image or the symbol. [...] Whether in the temple or in the village these four exterior temples always existed and this represented in a nutshell the whole cosmic philosophy of the Hindu in regard to the four cardinal points of sr#0 or creative evlution sthiti or maintenance of the creative principle in action sav hara or the counter-evolution and pralaya or sustenance of the creative seed.
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Pages
104
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxi Narendra Law view
Art and Philosophy in Hindu Temple Building
225-231 Prafulla Basu view
Rasatala or the Under-World
232-249 Nundo Dey view
Indo-China in the Records of Chinese Pilgrims
250-261 L. Finot view
Patanjali
262-289 Prabhatchandra Chakravarti view
The Trade of India
290-298 P. T. Srinivasa Iyangar view
A Comparative Survey of Indian Painting
299-i P. T. Srinivasa Iyangar view

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