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The Social and Millitary Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India As Represented by the Sanskrit Epic; With an Appendix on the Status of Women.

1889

Starting with the two-f4d nature of Krishna-Vishnu as man and god * and with the glossed-over sins of the Pandus the critic argues that the first poem was written for the glory of the Kurus and subsequently tampered with to magnify the Pandus ; and that in this latter form we have our present Epic dating from before the fourth century B. C. ; since the worship of Vishnu was in Megathenes tim [...] The only basis that we have for inverting the theme of the present poem is in what Schroeder who warmly supports the inversion-theory calls 'the justification of the hateful role evidently played by the Pandus ill the old form of the Epic and the reproaches heaped upon tlfe Kurus the royal heroes of the old poem.' Theories once started increase as it were of their own accord in force of sta [...] And now what may we imagine to have folowed The priests of the Pandus—who as I think wrote the poem originally on essentially the Sallie lines as portrayed -tday barring the inferior moral tone of the first version—in order to exalt the glory of the new house made out the combat of their national heroes to have been not with the weaker man who really fell but with the race in its early [...] The last two books we further see omitted in one of the Epic's own catalogues ; and upon the grounds of the complete catalogue in the first book and the opening chapters bearing on their face every mark of posteriority to the account of the main story we shall be inclined to put the greater part of the first book into the same list as that of the last. [...] ' The priest is the standard of the world ' says the formal law ; ' the king is the standard ' says the Epic.* In lo6king at the state from a political point of view we must therefore reverse the arrangement formally proclaimed by the priests themselves and put their order below that of the military caste.
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Frontmatter
i-iii Edward Hopkins view
Preface
1-2 Edward Hopkins view
I. Introduction. Origin of the Epic.
2-13 Edward Hopkins view
II. Historical Value of the Epic.
14-15 Edward Hopkins view
III. Social Position of the Ruling Caste.
16-125 Edward Hopkins view
IV. The Military Position of the Ruling Caste.
125-273 Edward Hopkins view
V. Appendix on the Status of Woman.
274-316 Edward Hopkins view
Additions
317-317 Edward Hopkins view
Corrections.
318-318 Edward Hopkins view
Index
319-320 Edward Hopkins view

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