Journal of the Department of Letters, Volume 8Calcutta University Press, 1922 - Buddha (The concept) Contains contributions on various subjects, notably India, Buddhism, ancient chronology, etc. |
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Page 37 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 117 - a division between the conservative and the liberal, the hierarchic and the democratic'. There is no room for doubt that the Council marked the evolution of new schools of thought.
Page 118 - Kappo— -or the practice of going to a neighbouring village and taking a second meal there the same day, committing thereby the offence of over-eating (Pac.
Page 37 - name is a rendering of that of Merodach. In Sumerian Merodach was called Amaruduk or Amarudu, and in the Assyro-Babylonian language, Marduk. By a process familiar to philologists the suffix ' uk ' was dropped and the rendering became Marad. The Hebrews added
Page 55 - ... when we have restored to Egypt that which properly belongs to her, and to Assyria all that has been borrowed from her, we perceive that nothing remains at the bottom of the crucible. Thus it may be said that, properly speaking, there is no Persian art, or Hittite art, or Jewish art, or Phoenician or Carthaginian art ; everywhere we find the forms of Egypt or those of Assyria grouped, mixed, perhaps altered, in proportions which vary according to time, environment, and political conditions.
Page 328 - Manava-Kalpa-Sutra ; being a portion of this ancient Work on Vaidik Rites, together with the Commentary of KUMARILA-SWAMIN. A Facsimile of the MS. No. 17, in the Library of Her Majesty's Home Government for India. With a Preface by THEODOR GOLDSTUCKER. Oblong folio, pp. 268 of letterpress and 121 leaves of facsimiles. Cloth. £4 4s.
Page 26 - Vedic gods/' (Here he refers to the divine names, supposedly FafuHn, I- rlrr,, Mitra, and the hasatynits, with which I have just been dealing). " In the cuneiform tablets discovered at Tell-el-Amaroa in Upper Egypt, containing letters from the tributary Kings of Western Asia to Egyptian Pharaohs, we find such Aryan names of chieftains : ' Artamanya, chief of Ziribasani, probably about Basan ; Bawarzana or Mawarzana (or perhaps Mayarzana), chief of Hazi, probably to the north of Palestine; Subandu...
Page 303 - This index ranges around 83. When we compare the value of this index with that of the index of the American-born, according to the time elapsed since their immigration, we find a sudden change. The value drops to about 82 for those born immediately after the immigration of their parents, and drops to 79 in the second generation, ie, among the children of American-born children of immigrants.
Page 283 - In the Pleistocene period, the most dominant features of the geography of India had come into existence, and the country had then acquired almost its present form, and its leading features of topography, except that the lands in front of the newly-upheaved mountains formed a depression, which was rapidly being filled up by the waste of the highlands. The origin of this depression, or trough, lying at the foot of the mountains, is doubtless intimately connected with the origin of the latter, though...
Page 120 - These tenets were, (1) An arhat may commit a sin under unconscious temptation, (2) One may be an arhat and not know it, (3) An arhat may have doubts on matters of doctrine, (4) One cannot, attain arhatship without the aid of a teacher, (5) The "noble ways...