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The Great Epic of India. Its Character and Origin

1901

The best way of course to take up the historical investiga tion of a literary product the origin of which is well known is to begin with the source and afterwards to study the character of the completed whole. [...] 142 The Thirty-one Elements (PaRcadikha) 152 The Secret of the Vedanta 157 Details of philosophical speculation 162 The Sixty Constituents of Intellect 163 The Seventeen.- 165 The Sixteen (A) Particles 168 The Sixteen (8) or Eleven Modifications 169 The Eight Sources 170 The Vital Airs and Senses 171 The Five Subtile Elements. [...] Even the fact that it does cite verbatim the words of the holy texts is of historical moment when it is remembered that in other places even women and slaves are ethorted to hear the recital of the epic' We find indeed in the course of the epic narrative that a woman is taught Vedic mantras 2 but the mantras are from the Atharva Veda which without being particularly slighted is less regarded t [...] The order of precedence is not fixed though its peculiar holiness vimala is not the reason why the Ulna Veda in the Giti and Anuclisana heads the list.3 Usually the Rig Veda stands at the head and the Atharva if mentioned at the foot though the order Rk Yajus Atharvan Säman. and even Atharvan Stumm Rk Yajus is found ; but the last order occurs only in the didactic or later epic. [...] But a direct citation is the allusion under the cover of an "it is said " to the constituents pitta clesman vayu (also vata pitta kapha) which make the threefold body tridhatu according to the Aryurvedins.' In the epic Khila and in the Kaccit and eleventh chapters of Sabha both late additions to the epic 2 the science of medicine is said to have eight branches ( ii 5 90 ; 11 25 ). Poss
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Frontmatter
i-xvi E. Hopkins view
Chapter One. Literature Known to the Epic Poets
1-57 E. Hopkins view
Chapter Two. Interrelation of the Two Epics
58-84 E. Hopkins view
Chapter Three. Epic Philosophy
85-190 E. Hopkins view
Chapter Four. Epic Versification
191-362 E. Hopkins view
Chapter Five. The Origin and Development of the Epic
363-385 E. Hopkins view
Chapter Six. Date of the Epic
386-402 E. Hopkins view
Appendices
403-470 E. Hopkins view
Final Notes
471-476 E. Hopkins view
Indices
477-485 E. Hopkins view

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