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Kannada Research Lectures Series no. 2. Three Lectures

1941

They reveal the power of the Indian kings the state of civilisation reached by the people their occupation the various institutions of government the safety of person and property the taxes raised the benefits which the people obtained from the rulers the minute system of land measurement the net work of their irrigation system the management of their religious endowments and the like. [...] The first copy might have been in the secretariat and the second in the temple treasury or in the safes of the village or district assemblies and these might have been written in the hand of the more literate officials than the inscriptions which are copies of them and which as testified to by the remarks occurring at the end of the epigraphs is the wo of scribes ( stone masons : Tachchachariyan [...] The initial year of this Era has been sought in the 3rd and 4th centuries A. D. Just imagine how wide of the mark the transactions of the kings of the dynasty would be if they are based on such chronology while actually the Era could not have started earlier than the end of the 5th century as indicated by the palaeography of many of the Eastern Ganga grants. [...] The author of the Nirukta fitly employed the following passage to impress on the minds of the votaries of the science how dangerous it will prove in the hands of the unscrupulous :— Vidya. [...] The emphasis laid in the above quotation on knowing the meaning of the Vedas and the contempt hurled against persons 5-430034 studying only the Vedic texts without caring for the sense implied therein coupled with the fact that the Rishis themselves initiated their disciples in the import of the mantras affords room to think that the majority of students should have known the full significance o
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Pages
122
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145563
Segment Pages Author Actions
Foreword
i-4 K. V. Aiyar view
Method of Historic Research
1-38 K. V. Aiyar view
Some dark spots in the History of the Rashtrakutas
39-114 K. V. Aiyar view
Backmatter
i-ii K. V. Aiyar view

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