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The Indian Historical Quarterly September 1927

1927

The use of the term 'Brahma' to mean the Vedas as also the eternal Reality of the Upanisads clearly suggests that the men who tried to discover the inner significance of the Vedas and all that they stood for eventually landed upon the conception of Brahma of the Upanisads. [...] On hearing this good news Hasan "became hopeful and began to cherish in his mind the idea of sovereignty and conquest." The pedigree as given by him is as follows :- Sultan Alauddin Waad-Dunya Hasan Bahman Shah the son of Kaiqaus Muhammad the son of Ali the son of Hasan the son of Bahtam the son of Simun the son of Salami the son of Nub the son of Ibrahim the son of Nasir the son of Mans [...] Thus the central figure in the composition closely coforms to the description of Revanta in the Kalikil Pura as quoted above but the surrounding scene differs from the Bihar images which seem to follow the Brhatsamhit5 and is of interest as illustrating in stone the function of the deity who according to the Miirkandeya Purina looks over the safety of his worshippers from the dangers of th [...] Some of the verses which are found in the Tharmnapada' are also found in the 'Mahabharata as well as the 'Manu-smrti '3 not to speak of the Buddhist works themselves such as the 'Thera-giitha' and ‘Theri-gatha' ; but as it is not our purpose to discuss here whether the 'Dhammpada' was the borrower or vice versa we pass on to the matter in hand. [...] 'the light of the knowledge of the way of the Arahats ' or in other words 'the light obtained from the vision of (having found out or attaied) the knowledge of Arahatship' or in the simplest words 'the But the English translators of the Dhanzmapada 'Sacred Books of the East' series vol.
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Pages
235
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Upanisadic Scholar
443-451 Umesh Bhattachrya view
Observations on the Cognomen Bahmani
451-456 unknown view
Oxinden Embassy
457-469 unknown view
A New type of Revanta from the Dinajpur District
469-472 Nirad Sanyal view
Jaina References in the Dhammapada
473-485 M. Gobinda Pai view
The Development of Buddhist Art in South India
486-507 Debprasad Ghosh view
Taranatha’s History of Buddhism in India
508-509 unknown view
The Authorship of Nigbantu
510-517 Chamupati view
The Ancient Tamils and the Nagas
518-529 C.S. Srinivasachari view
The present mode of expressing numbers
530-540 Bibhutibhushan Datta view
Mauryan Art
541-560 Achyuta Mitra view
Samsara or Buddhist Philosophy of Birth and Death
561-570 Narada view
Dates of Early Historical Records of Bengal
571-591 Dinesh Bhattcharya view
Indian Literature Abroad
591-599 Pravat Mukherjee view
Cosmographical Theories of the Hindu Astronomers
599-603 Sukumar Das view
Kumarila and Dinnaga
603-606 H.R. Iyenger view
Apastamba and Gautama
607-611 Batakrishna Ghosh view
Max Muller’s Introduction to the Rgveda-pratisakhya
611-624 Batakrishna Ghosh view
More light on methods and conclusions in Hindu Politics
625-658 unknown view
Pathakam
659-662 K.R. Pisharoti view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
663-665 unknown view
Obituary Notice
666-667 unknown view

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