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Indian Wisdon of Examples of the Religious Philosophical and Ethical Doctrines of the Hindus: With a Brief History of the Chief Departments of Sanskrit Literature and some Account of the Past and Present Condition of India Moral and Intellectual

1875

After the Hindu Aryans had spread themselves over the plains'Of the Ganges the Persians called the whole of the region between the Panjab and Benares Hindustan or abode of the Hindus ' and this name is used in India at the present day especially by the Musalman pl5pulation 3. Thc.classical name for India however as commonly Some detached portions of the information contained in this Intrduc [...] The Zand-Avrsta consists of i. the five Gathers or songs and prayers (in metres resembling Vedic) which alone are thought to be the work of Zoroaster himself and form part of the Yazna (or Yain.a=yajna) written in two dialects (the older of thtwo called by Haug the (Atha); 2. the Yendidad a code of laws; 3. the Iashts containing hymns to the sun and other deities. [...] D. 1610 the Emperor of Delhy Jahangir the son of king Akbar granted a spot to the English to build a factory in the city of Surat in the province of Guzerat which is the first settleynent that people made on the shores of Hindustan. [...] The 'spirited Hindustani the martial Sikh the ambitious Marathi the proud Rabat the hardy Gurkha' the calculating Bengali the busy Telugu the active Tamil the patient pariah differ inter se as much as or more than the vivacious Celt the stubborn Saxor the energetic Norman the submissive Slave the - enterprising; Englishman and the haughty Spaniard - Many causes have combined to pro [...] Pali is claely connected with and was probably prebeded by the language of the Rock Inscriptions of the second turd third centuries B. C. The language of the Oatbas as found in the Laiita-vistara (see p. 55 note r) of the Northein Buddhists of Nepal is though by some to be a still earlier form of the popular language; so that four separate stages oPrakrit using_that term genvally for the
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Pages
628
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145725
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Preface
i-xlviii Monier Williams view
Lecture I. The Hymns of the Veda
1-26 Monier Williams view
Lecture II. The Brahmanas and Upanishads
27-47 Monier Williams view
Lecture III. The Systems of Philosophy
48-70 Monier Williams view
Lecture IV. The Nyaya
71-88 Monier Williams view
Lecture V. The Sdnkhya
89-107 Monier Williams view
Lecture VI. The Purva-mimansa and Veddnta
108-126 Monier Williams view
Lecture VII. Irregular Systems and Eclectic School
127-154 Monier Williams view
Lecture VIII. Srnriti—The Veddngas
155-194 Monier Williams view
Lecture IX. II. The Smdrta Sutras or Traditional Rules
195-220 Monier Williams view
Lecture X. The Dharma-.dstras or Law-books—Manu continued
221-281 Monier Williams view
Lecture XI. The Law-books—Manu continued
282-308 Monier Williams view
Lecture XII. IV. The Itingsas or Epic Poems—the Ramayana
309-370 Monier Williams view
Lecture XIII. The Itihasas or Epic Poems—The Mahn-blearata
371-414 Monier Williams view
Lecture XIV. The Indian Epics compared with each other and with the Hornerie Poems
415-448 Monier Williams view
Lecture XV. The Aetifaeial Poems. Dramas. Pvrānas. Tantras. Niti-sāstras
449-518 Monier Williams view
Index
519-541 Monier Williams view
Additions and Corrections
542-542 Monier Williams view
Oriental Works
i-36 Monier Williams view

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