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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) January 1926

1926

To those of you who have read Peary's 'North Pole' you will find his reference to the familiar red banner of the arctic " off the region of Cape Columbia in Grinnel Land and the north-west of Greenland.' In Wells' book the " War of the Worlds " you may remember the story of when the Martians came to the earth they introduced a weed that lavishly grew and which instead of being green as our ea [...] In the brooding silence of the arctic the cry of a bird becomes a voice it is the only sound of a living thing and as you go %r& to the pack this last sound dies away and leaves one to the silence of the region round the pole. [...] There it hangs in the heavens the wonder of the common man the puzzle of all scientists and the visible emblem of the mystery of the universe. [...] The answer is the same as suggested by the Naiyaiikas.8 It is practically from the last letter that the cognition of the entire word is derived together with the impressions produced by the preceding letters. [...] An eamination of facts shows that the grammatical method of analysing sentence and words into their component parts however artificial from the standpoint of Sphota is calculated to afford the only scientific means so far as the knowledge of meanings is concerned Ingainiftwarforgivmftpc." The doctrine of Sphota as expounded by the grammarians is not a creation of fancy and result of idle p
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Pages
203
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
An Arctic Voyage: North Spitzbergen
1-24 C.A. Hendry view
Theory of Sphota
25-51 Prabhatchandra Chakravarti view
Brahminism in the “Smritis”
52-67 D.R. Vaidya view
Espionage in the Hindu System of Administration
68-90 Hemchandra Ray view
The Philosophy of Our People
91-108 Rabindranath Tagore view
Ghost Crosses
109-117 R.T.M. Scott view
Education as a Channel of Western Influence in Bengal
118-134 Priyaranjan Sen view
Greater India
135-179 Kalidas Nag view
Late Mr. S. M. Mitra: A Study of His Writings
180-184 M.I.B. view
Madras
185-189 unknown view
Reviews
190-191 unknown view
Ourselves
192-202 C.V. Raman view

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