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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) October 1923

1923

This ethical system also knows the ideal of renunciation of the world —but only from the point of view of the ;igrama theory according to which the Aryan has first to pass the stage of Brahmacarin the student of the Veda and of the housholder (grhastha) who founds a family offers sacrifices and honours the Brahmans before he is allowed to retire from this world as an hermit or an ascetic. [...] The two ethical ideas—the Urania ideal of the Brahmaism and the ascetic ideal are well-contrasted in one of the finest pieces of ascetic poetry—the pitaputrasathvada dialogue between father and son' which is found twice in the Elabhaparvan of the Mahabharata in an expanded verson in the Markandeya Parana and other versions of which are fuund in the Buddhist Jataka and in the Uttaradhyayana an [...] The parable is thus explained by Vidura : The forest is the Sathsara the round of existences in this world ; the beasts of prey are the diseases ; the hideous giant woman is old age; the well is the body ; the dragon at the bottom of thy well is Time; the creepers in which the man is hanging -it the hope of life ; the elephant with six mouths and tw914 feet is the Year with its six seasons and t [...] To this the priest replies : The he-goat is not destroyed by being sacrificed on the oontrary he attains highest bliss for it is said in the Veda: 'That part of it which is of the substance of earth goes to the earth ; that which of the substance of water goes to the waters; its eye goes to the sun its ear to the quarters and its breath to heaven.' Whereupon the ascetic replies ; If you thin [...] But the curious thing is that the author of the Anugita represents the Adhvaryu as the victor in the debate while the unbiassed reader certainly has the impression that the ascetic is right.
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Pages
133
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
Ascetic Literature in Ancient India
1-21 M. Winternitz view
Swift As A Political Pamphleteer
22-33 J.H. Maxwell view
Early Revenue History of Bengal (1757-1772)
34-39 unknown view
Vengeance is Mine
40-47 Kanaiyalal Munshi view
“Economic Aspect of the Rice Export Trade”
48-56 Kshitischchandra Chowdhuri view
The Permanent Settlement
57-65 B.I.A. view
Sabat
66-73 Abdul Wali view
Sankara and Ramanuja—A Study
74-83 Abhaykumar Gupta view
“The Early English Theatre and The Bengali Drama”
84-ii unknown view
Colossal Copper Statue of Buddha
88-i K. view
Calcutta University and the Problem of Unemployment
89-109 J.W. Petavel view
Reviews
110-114 B.B.D. view
Backmatter
115-118 unknown view

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