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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1933

1933

The Syndicate and Senate as was only to be expected have given expression to their sense of the menace which the cult of terrorism offers to the progress of true education and indeed to the advancement of the general interests of the country. [...] These panegyric-poems include (1) the Dharma Mangals bearing the stamp of Hinduised Buddhism (2) the Candi Mango! Kälikä Moagal and Armada MaIgal poems celbrating the glory and triumph of the Goddess of the Mother-cult (3) the Hanasa illahgal poems written to describe the glory and exploits of the deity presiding over the serpentine world and (4) the igiviiyana poems written in glorificat [...] The Gyhyasiitra enjoins upon the householder to propitiate serpents by means of worship and by the recital of appropriate ' mantras.' The ceremony of this worship according to the Grhya-stitra ' is to be performed on the full-moon day of Sravana when the housholder is to make various offerings to the serpent and to consign himself and his near and dear ones to the charge of the deity for pro [...] Of the two Sanskrit Epics the Rittnityana has loft no trace of the deification of serpents barring the mention in the Su4ariikkacia of the huge female-serpent Surasn who obstructed the passage of the Monkey-chief Hanumiin in the course of hig aerial trip over the sea to Latikit. [...] Dinesh Chandra Sen under the auspices of the Calcutta University treating respectively of (1) the conversion of a bandit-chief Kenärtim*by name under the spell of the musical performance of the ManasalVIangal ' given by the poet-musician YaM§idäs and his party and of (2) the pathetic story of Chandrvatt's disappointMent in her early love and her acceptance of a VOW of lifelong celibacy.
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Pages
132
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
His Excellency’s Speech at the Convocation of the Calcutta University on 25th March 1933
143-152 unknown view
In Memory of Scott
153-172 Priyaranjan Sen view
A Study of the Manasa-Cult and Its Literary Expression
173-186 Janardan Chakrabarti view
The Concept of Svadharma in the Gita
187-196 U.C. Bhattacharjee view
Music and Numbers
197-212 C. Subrahmanya view
The Outlook for American Political Radicalism
213-222 R.E. Wolseley view
Studies in the Tantras
223-239 Prabhatchandra Chakravarti view
Reza Shah Pahlevi
240-246 Mohammad Ishaque view
The Realistic Analysis of Perception
247-258 Tatini Das view
Reviews
259-268 unknown view
Ourselves
269-274 unknown view

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