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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) March 1936

1936

The greatness of a literature lies first in the greatness and worth of its substance the value of its thought and the beauty of its forms but also in the degree to which satisfying the highest condtions of the art of speech it avails to bring out and raise the soul and life or the living and the ideal mind of a people an age a culture through the genius of some of its greatest or most sen [...] The people and the civilisation that count among their great works and their great names the Veda and the Upanishads the mighty structures of the Mahabharata and the Ramayans Halides& and Bhavabhuti and Bbartrihari and Jayadeva and the other rich creations of classical Indian chains and poetry and romance the Dhammapada and the Jatakas the Panchatantras Tulsidas Bidyapati and Chanddas an [...] 0 Fire we choose thee for our priest and the means of effectuation of our strength and in the sacrifices bringing the food of thy pleasure we call thee by the word...0 god of perfect works may we be for the felicity for the truth revelling with the rays revelling with the heroes." And finally let us take the bulk of the third hymn that follows couched in the ordinary symbols of the sacrific [...] The Veda is thus the spiritual and psychological seed of Indian cuture and the Upanishads the expression of the truth of highest spiritual knowledge and experience that has always been the supreme idea of that culture and the ultimate objective to which it directed the life of the individual and the aspiration of the soul of the people: and these two bodies of sacred writings its first great e [...] The work of the philosophers was to systematise and justify to the reasoning intelligence the truths of the self and man and the world already discovered by intuition revelation and spiritual experience and embodied in the Veda and the Upanishads and at the same time to indicate and systematise methods of discipline founded upon this knowledge by which man might effectuate the highest aim of his
history
Pages
103
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Renaissance of the East
245-262 Hari Gour view
For an Exhibition of Indian Art
263-266 Ananda Coomaraswamy view
The Greatness of Indian Literature
267-279 Aurobindo view
The Modern Gentleman
280-296 Mohini Bhattacharji view
Aesthetic Pleasure in Drama
297-301 K.R. Pishaboti view
Anglo-German Relations of the Future
302-306 Taraknath Das view
Foundation of the University of Calcutta
307-314 Tripurari Chakrabarti view
Arts Letters and Sciences
315-318 unknown view
At Home and Abroad
319-322 unknown view
News and Views
323-328 unknown view
Miscellany
329-336 Benoy Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
337-342 unknown view
Ourselves
343-346 unknown view

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