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A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. With Sanskrit Texts Variants Translation and Illustrations

1925

the salient features of the fomer appear.* The question now arises : when did the votaries of the religion of Sfikyamuni find themselves called upon to engraft upon their simple and pure creed the ensemble of the gross and grotesque superstitions the hideous incantations as also the speculative the metphysical and esoteric phases of spiritual apirations of which the Tantras are the rep [...] "It was this phase of Buddhism that with the strenuous efforts of the missionaries and of the Eperor Asoka enables it to achieve success amongst the masses of the people ; and what was wanting on the theistic side was supplied by the perfection and marvellous powers attributed to the founder of the religion. [...] we find the Kibul valley the Punjab and Malaya ac-xi knowledging the sway of the Princes of the Turkish race.* Wema Kadiphses the second of the Kushana Dynasty is spoken of as a devotee of Maliesvara ; his coins bear the emblem of Nandin on the re-. [...] India p. 173."aaaiv come across in the Buddhacharita" of Asvaghosha who is admitted on all hands to be a contemporary of Kanishka such a passage as this : "this Sirs is the MaliyAna the instrument of the law of the pefeet Buddha which is the establisher of the welfare of all beings set forth by all the Buddhas."* The "Lotus of good Law" was translated into Chinese at the close of the [...] He acquired proficiency in the three pitakas of the four classes of the Hinayana Srfvskas in the Vaiaeshika philosophy in the three pitakas of the Mahayana doctrine the metaphysics of the Madhymika and the Yogicharya schools and the four classes of the Tantras.
philosophy religion
Pages
578
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145714
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xix Prafulla Ray view
Introduction
i-xcvi Prafulla Ray view
The Tantric Period
1-58 Prafulla Ray view
The Mechanical Physical and Chemical Theories of the Ancient Hindus
59-224 B.N. Seal view
Appendix On the Scientific Method of the Hindus
225-284 Brajandranath Seal view
Addenda
285-290 Brajandranath Seal view
Sanskrit Texts
1-152 Prafulla Ray view
Index
i-xxi Prafulla Ray view

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