The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine June 1910

The following verses record in no uncertain manner a depth and volume of religious feeling that properly falls in with the character of a Sovereign ; and according to the Hindu view of the matter it is in the natural fitness of filings that the hymn should have been the favourite hymn of the deceased Monarch.86 THE DAWN AND DAWN SOCIETY'S MAGAZINE Abide with me : fast falls the eventide ; The dar [...] 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 Ad[...] And naturally in the age that succeeded San karacharya the age of the early Musalman invasions of Northern India we find that while the Brahmans learned in the Sankrit 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 from a study of the vernacular literature of the period especially of Ben [...] Under the successors of Tamerlane a flourshing school of art arose in the heart of Asia at Samarkhand." One of the ways in which the Mongol performed their function as the carriers and middlemen of civilization and culture between the different countries of Asia is well illustrated by the following fact recorded of Timur the ancestor of the Indian Mughal dynasty. [...] At first when the Chinese were settled chiefly around the basin of the Hwang-ho the greater part of the remainder of the country being uncivilised and wild they established their settlements on the south side of the Shantung peninsula in the Gulf of Kiao-tchou which they frequented during the three centuries B. C. 675-375.