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Indian Wisdom or 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 Conditions of India Moral and Intellectual

1876

After the Hindu Aryans had spread themselves over the plains of the Ganges the Persians called the whole of the region between the Paiijab and Benares Hindustan or abode of the Hindus ' and this name is used in India at the present day especially by the MusalmLn population''. [...] The Zand-Avesta consistE of I. the fiv Gallas or songs and prayers (in metres resembling Vedic) which alone are thought to be the work of Zoroaster himself and form part of the Ya.vna (or Yaina=yajria) written in two dialects (the older of the ttve by Haug the Githa) ; 2. the Vendidad a code of laws ; 3. the Reslas containing hymns to the sun and other deities. [...] D. 1611) the Emperor of Delhi; 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 settlement that people made on the shores of Hindustan. [...] The spirited Hindustani the martial Sikh the ambitious Marathi the proud Rajput 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 Saxon the energetic Norman the submissive Slave the enterprising Englishman and the haughty Spaniard. [...] It is one of the aims then of the following pages to indicate the points of contact between Christianity and the three chief false religions of the world as they are thus represented in India 1 According to the last census the number of Buddhists and Ainas in India amounts to nearly three millions (2 629 2oo).
philosophy religion
Pages
591
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146844
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Monier Williams view
Frontmatter
i-xlviii Monier Williams view
Lecture I. The Hymns of the Veda
1-26 Monier Williams view
Lecture II. The Brāhmanas 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 Sānkhya
89-107 Monier Williams view
Lecture VI. The Pūrva-mīmānsā and Vedānta
108-126 Monier Williams view
Lecture VII. Irregular Systems and Eclectic School
127-154 Monier Williams view
Lecture VIII. Smriti—The Vedāngas
155-194 Monier Williams view
Lecture IX. The Smārta Sūtras or Traditional Rules
195-220 Monier Williams view
Lecture X. The Dharma-Sāstras or Law-books—Manu continued
221-281 Monier Williams view
Lecture XI. The Law-books—Manu continued
282-308 Monier Williams view
Lecture XII. The Itihāsas or Epic Poems—The Rāmāyana
309-370 Monier Williams view
Lecture XIII. The Itihāsas or Epic Poems—The Mahā-Bhārata
371-414 Monier Williams view
Lecture XIV. The Indian Epics compared with each other and with the Homeric Poems
415-448 Monier Williams view
Lecture XV. The Artificial Poems. Dramas. Purānas. Tantras. Nīti-Sāstras
449-518 Monier Williams view
Index
519-541 Monier Williams view
Additions and Corrections
542-542 Monier Williams view

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