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The Journal of the Greater India Society July 1941

1941

Plato's prisoners like the noinitiated spectators of the Wayang are forbidden the sight of the things which cause the shadows : in Java the curtain is the obstacle that reinforces the interdiction; in Plato's tale the spectators have been chained first in accordance with the same interdiction. [...] At this stage the non-iritiated would see the shadows only whereas the initiation rites consisted essentially in the revelation of the sense of the mysteries and in the disclosing of the sacred images. [...] The name of the era San equivalent to the last part of the name of the Tibetan King and its epoch 59594 A. D. both favour this hypothesis ' but it goes against the generally accepted view that the era originated in the time of Akbar by the conversion of Hijra into a solar year. [...] The Sources Inscriptions works of art and references in the Chinese annals constitute our chief sources for reconstructing the social history of Central Java between the middle of the seventh and the second quarter of the tenth century A. D. when it was the leading political factor in the history of the island. [...] The tranference of copperplates from one place to another the great uncertainty regarding the true import of Hindu-Javanese official titles the obscurity of the Old-Javanese language the demarcation of the exact boundary between real and fantastic reliefs depicting contemporary social life are some of the outstanding difficulties besetting the path of the historian.
philosophy religion
Pages
81
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120050
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii U.N. Ghoshal view
The Shadow Theatre in Greater India and in Greece
83-91 J. Przyluski view
Political Relations of Tibet with India
92-97 R.C. Majumdar view
Varuna
98-103 Batakrishna Ghosh view
Glimpses into the Hindu-Javanese Society of Central Java
104-115 Himansu Sarkar view
Notices of Books
116-125 unknown view
Editorial Notes
126-133 unknown view
Extracts from the Annual Report of the Greater India Society for 1940
134-138 unknown view
Obituary Notice
139-151 unknown view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
152-156 unknown view
Additions to the Library
156-158 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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