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The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine May 1911

1911

-India) seat some ambassadors carrying tribute and offering some products of the country."' This fact has also been noted in the great Chinese encclopaedia of the famous historian Ma-touan-lin of the f3th century " In the fifth year of the period Youen-kia of the reign of Wen-ti of the Sung dynasty (in the year 428 A. D.) Youei-ai (that is to say ' loved by the moon ' in Sanskrit Chandrapr [...] The official memoirs of the Emperor Hsuan-wu or Hiouan-wu of this dynasty record 18 :— In the third year of the period King-ming of Hiouan-wuti (503 A. D.) the kingdom of Southern India sent an ambassador to the court bringing tribute ;" and again 'during the fourth moon of the fourth year of the period (504 A. D.) the kingdom of Southern India offered some branches of pei-to (i. [...] During the later years of the sixth century we find the mention of only one embassy from India in 571 A. D. Of this the history of the Tchin dynasty relates 1" —" In the fifth moon of the third year of the period Ta-Kian of Hiouan-ti (571 A. D.) the kingdom of India sent an ambassador to offer some products of the country." III. [...] Coming down to the latter part of the seventh century we learn fr im the Plan--/-tian "—" In the second year of the period Kien-foung of Emperor Kao-trung (667 A. D.) the five Indies (or the five political divisions of India) sent some ambassadors to the court." And Mtouanlin says E° :—" In the third year of the period khien-fong (668 A. D.) the kings of the five Indies came all to present t [...] In religious architecture it is true the Hindu and the Muhammadan styles show marked differences as may be expected from the divergence of the Koranic ideals —with their strong aversion to plastic representations of religious subjects and their insistence on the sharp differentiation of the secular from the sacred concerns of life —from the mythological conception of the Hindu Puranas and the
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