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Pracyavani-Journal of the Pracyavani (Institute of Oriental Learning) January-April 1946

1946

In the rest of India the right of alienation was subject to many fetters and that is why the father of a Mitakshara family was as incompetent in the matter of alienation as the shebait Of an endowment or the mohunt of a math or the curator of a lunatic. [...] it was in Bengal that the legal concept of ownership was analysed and examined scientifically in the light of reason and realism and adopting the methods of the Nyaya philosophy the study of which is the partcular domain of the children of Bengal. [...] The Bengal jurists felt the necessity of supplementing the sevefold division of the Vaiseshikas as they found on analysis a real addtional thing resting on rational grounds being an outcome of social evolution and of the relation between the individual and society rgarding the use and enjoyment of fir or the visible and material part of the world. [...] But I may be allowed to accept the conclusion of the philosophers that the doubt as to the nature of the self is solved so far as a solution is possible by the appreciation of the existence of one universal self. [...] in this brief and faulty survey of the history of Hindu LaW in Bengal the features that stand out are the appreciation of the relative as distinct from the absolute the predominance of the universal to the particular courage to speak out the truth even if it is revolutionary realism and rationalism (the superiority of reason to authority and of the concrete and the visible are the first step to
philosophy religion
Pages
81
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120078
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii Roma Chaudhuri, Jatindra Chaudhuri view
The Contribution of Bengal to Hindu Law
1-18 Panchanan Ghosh view
Nabinchandra the Poet of Humanism
19-22 Roma Chaudhuri view
Life and Message of Iqbal
22-28 Mizanur Rahman view
Post-War Reconstruction of Ayurveda
29-33 Rajvaidya Kaviraj Chatterjee view
Srihatta Sahitya Parishat Granthagare Rakshita Bangla Puthu Talika
34-34 S.K. Bhuyan view
Studies in the History of Indian Plants
35-39 P.K. Gode view
Some Technical Terms of Sanskrit Grammar
40-42 Kshitish Chatterjee view
Article
i-xxiv J.B. Chaudhuri view
Pracyavani
1-12 unknown view

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