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Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Silver Jubilee Volumes (Orientalia)

1922

European scholars like to insist upon what they call the hellenization " of the Nearer East namely the spread of Greek or rather Hellenistic influence to Egypt and Western ASia right to the valley of the Euphrates and even—as is shown by the Indo-Greek school of Gandhara—of the Indui. [...] These mementoes were as a matter of course representations of the characteristic object to which popular devotion was especially directed in the neighbourhood of each of these cities say the Stapa of the Great Decease near Ku4nagara the Wheel of the Law near Benares the Tree of the Sambodhi near Bodh-GayA and so on. [...] Now you will readily believe that the prohibition of the figure of the protagonist from the scenes of his own biography a revered8 INFLUENCE OF INDIAN AWl' ON CAMBODIA AND JAVA legacy from the past though it was seemed a very awkward rule to the artists as well to the donors of later India. [...] To say nothing of the use of narrative bas-reliefs in the decoration of a monument or of the 'Introduction in sculpture of pictorial accessories the power of showing personages three-quarters " and of making them move and turn in a word the knowledge of foreshortening was not invented twice. [...] The thatched cottages of the lower classes and even the dwellings of the upper ones including the largest part of the superstructures of the palaces in a word all that was built of wood and had been spared by fire soon fell a prey to fife damp heat and to white ants.
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Pages
534
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144492
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Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
The Influence of Indian Art on Cambodia and Java
1-36 A. Foucher view
Atatayin an old Legal Term
37-40 F.E. Pargiter view
The Concept of Purusa in the Sankhya Philoshophy
41-52 Indradeva Tiwari view
The Brahminical Conception of the Science of Politics
53-64 Upendranath Ghoshal view
The Art of Gandhara
65-80 Gauranganath Banerjee view
The Particularity of the Hindu History and the Genius of the Hindu People
81-104 Akshaykumar Sarkar view
Early Indian Seamen
105-124 Ramaprasad Chandra view
Dravidian Elements in Indian Polity
125-154 Radhakamal Mookerjee view
Domestic Element in the Popular Creeds of Bengal
155-176 Dineschandra Sen view
On the Ascertainment of Pramana in the Nyaya System
177-188 Satischandra chatterjee view
Paninian Studies in Bengal
189-208 Dineshchandra Bhattacharyya view
On Some Iconographic Parallels
209-216 O.C. Gangoly view
Ancient Hindu Education as Evidenced by the Brahmanas and Upanisads
217-252 Radhakumud Mookerjee view
General Introduction to Tantara Philosophy
253-276 Surendranath Gupta view
The Syrian Christian Church in India : Its Origin and History
277-294 G. Howells view
Anthropology of the Roman Catholics of the Latin Rites in Malabar Cochin and Travancore
295-326 L.K. Iyer view
Sidelights on Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra
327-390 H.C. Chakladar view
Valmiki as the Reveals Himself in His Poem
391-414 B. Barua view
A Mysterious Coincidence in the History of the Mahomedan World
415-i Kalichbeg Mirza view
The Piprawa Relics
425-iii Arun Sen view
Was State-Socialism Known in Ancient India ?
429-446 Hemchandra Ray view
The Influence of Bengali on Gujarati
447-450 Krishnalal Jhaveri view
Nau-Ruz
451-458 M. Shirazi view
The Sue Vihar Copper-Plate of the Reign of Kaniska
459-474 N.G. Majumdar view
The Guru in Sikhism
475-492 Indubhushan Banerjee view
Origin of the Indian Alphabet
493-514 D.R. Bhandarkar view

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