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India To-Morrow Saturday 7th November 1931

1931

Then we noticed how with the beginning of the Christian era under the auspices of Kanishka the great Buddhist Emperor of Northern India the rise of the Mahayana school of Buddhism brought about a remarkable change in the Art of the period which began to represent the idealised image of the Buddha as a great Yogi and as the avatar or earthly incarnation of higher spiritual beings known as Adi-B [...] And naturally in the age that succeeded Sankaracharya the age of the early Mussalman invasions of Northern India we find that while the Brahmans learned in the Sanskrit schools were expounding and commenting on the old Vedic ritual and the tenets of the different schools of philosophy the common people as will appear form a study of the vernacular literature of the period especially of Benga [...] The importance of the service to Asiatic Civilization which they rendered in this way will only be fully.realised if we remember that the old spiritual and commercial intercourse between the nations of Eastern and central Agia during the palmy days of Buddhism in India was now a thing of the past and that China India and Persia the seats of the three oldest and mightiest civilizations of Asia [...] In Europe it was a cause if not the chief caul e of the Renaissance for it thrust the Ottoman Turks out of the obscurity of Khurasan into the prominence of Constantinople and was thus ultimately responsible for the destruction of the Byzantine Empire and the dispersion of the Greeks and their treasures into Europe." The same testimony is borne by another distinguished writer Mr. [...] Through the golden words of the poet the sweet refrain of the musician and the intricate designs of the scietists do we see the breath of the nation heave in joyous delight.
history
Pages
34
Published in
Bangladesh
SARF Document ID
sarf.120262
Segment Pages Author Actions
Beyond Bars
327-328 Harindranath Chattopadhya view
The Rise of a New Power
329-332 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya view
Radha to Krishna
333-333 H.W.B. Moreno view
Indian Nationalism and Indian Art Beginnings of a New Movement
334-341 Rabindra Ghosh view
Presidential Address at the All-Punjab Students’ Conference
342-350 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya view
Correspondence
350-351 unknown view
Review
351-351 unknown view
How to Help the Artisans
352-354 Aswini Gupta view
Notes and News
355-358 unknown view

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