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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal July 1835

1835

in unbroken lines like prose ) with the exception of a few prosaic enumerations near the end helped greittly to the restitution of the reading where the stone was broken or partially defaced*_ Of the 49 verses or stanzas of which the poetical part of this inscription consists 23 are in the measure the most nearly approaching to the freedom of prose the Iambic Tetrameter of the Rkmkyana and Ma [...] After some of the ordinary topics of praise to Sty* in which the mythology of the Purgnas and the deeper mystical theology of the Upnishads are blended in the usual manner —and after the commemortion of this peculiar seat of his worship —the author begins in the 13th of his varied stanzas to recount the predecessors of the two Slick:watt princes to whose liberality the temple was most ind [...] the developement of the ternary forms or qualities first in the Supreme Triad [BRAHMA' VISHNU Szvs ] and next in the several orders of created beings: this first immaterial sustance being the neuter Trip brohnul of the Upanishads and the Vedanthe T41-61: or male inactive principle of the rival Sankhya school—the BTewe or unfathomable depth of some of the Gnostics who attempted the introd [...] The former is the Stiktya conclusion ; the latter that of the Sairas: among whom also as we may observe in this and the 6th verse of the inscription SIVA has the properties of the other two mebers of the triad that of Creator and Preserver ascribed to him as well as his own. [...] The transition of the ideas of the Divine mind into separate individual intelligences (from which A PULEIUS aid others derive the whole theory of Polytheism)—the propagation ofvarious orders of beings from these down to the grossest and most material; and the destruction of the world by the absorption of the lower in the higher existences till all is lost in the Spreme—are points in which the
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Pages
59
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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I.—Notice of the Temple called Seo Byjnouth (Siva Vaidyanath) discovered by Sergeant E. Dkan. on the 3rd December. 1834 on the Hill of Unchaipahar in the Shekawati Territory
361-385 Prinsep James view
I.—This verse is in a hendecasylluble measure called Ratha_udgata of which an exact idea may be formed by one accustomed to the harmony of classical numbers from the following slight transposition of a line in the Cedipus Coloneus
386-400 Prinsep James view
III.—Notice of Pagan. the Ancient Capital of the Burmese Empire. by Lieut.-Col. 11. Burney H.C.s Resident in Ava
400-404 Prinsep James view
IV.—Register of the fall of rain. in inches at Dacca From 1827 to 1834. by Dr. G. W. Lamb
405-405 Prinsep James view
V.—Register of the Thermometer at Ambala for 1834. By M. P. Edgeworth. Esq. C. S
405-406 Prinsep James view
VI.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
407-410 Prinsep James view
VII.—Miscellaneous
410-412 Prinsep James view

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