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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore). April 1911
1911
The real causes of the lack of maritime enterprise seem to be however the existence of landward ways throughout this region excepting the South and the West and the want of nautical enterprise among the people that made the history of India. [...] The Romans ceasing to sail up to Kattigura the Chinese advanced westwards to Penang and Malacca where they are found in the middle of the fourth century A. D. About the end of the century they advanced to Ceylon which offered the additional attraction of the teaching of the Buddha to the commercial. [...] In this part of the Indian Ocean took place a phenomenon similar to the ousting of the Dutch from the carrying trade of the West in the seventeenth century A. D. The Greco-Roman trade was gradually ousted and its place was alike gradually being taken by the inhabitants of the western littoral of the Indian Ocean. [...] N1f411T:—or non-attachment to the rewards of actions in this as well as in the other world ; (81 WITilffIT4ffkluiq—or the securing of the various means such as the control of the mind and the control of the external senses ; and (4) icrff7g1T—or desire for the final emancipation of the soul. [...] Even in the case of the apprehension of the sounds of letters by means of the corresponding written signs there is no cognition of the real by means of the unreal.' Similar arguments hold good in disproving the unreality of the Universe.
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