The History of British India, Volume 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820 - Hindus |
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Page 71 - The fundamental tenet of the Vedanta school consisted not in denying the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure (to deny which would be lunacy), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception ; that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms.
Page 447 - Institutes of Menu in English. The Institutes of Hindu Law or the Ordinances of Menu, according to Gloss of Collucca.
Page 132 - ... that they knew the general resolution of equations of the second degree, and had touched upon those of higher denomination, resolving them in the simplest cases, and in those in which the solution happens to be practicable by the method which serves for quadratics...
Page 77 - To the guest who enters your dwelling with frozen knees, give the warmth of your fire ; he who hath travelled over the mountains, hath need of food and well-dried garments.
Page 16 - Indian cook-wench shall be more delicate than that of an European beauty : the skin and features of a porter shall be softer than those of a professed petit maitre.
Page 138 - It was unfortunate that a mind so pure, so warm in the pursuit of truth, and so devoted to oriental learning, as that of Sir William Jones, should have adopted the hypothesis of a high state of civilization in the principal countries of Asia.
Page 16 - ... eye can be of no assistance, they will break it off exactly as the assortments change, at once from the first to the twentieth, from the nineteenth to the second.
Page 173 - Brachmans persuaded him that it was necessary he should be born anew : this ceremony consisted in putting the prince into the body of a golden cow of immense value, where, after he had lain the time prescribed, he came out regenerated, and freed from all the crimes of his former life. The cow was afterwards cut up, and divided amongst the seers who had invented this extraordinary method for the remission of his sins.
Page 4 - These enclosures are 350 feet distant from one another, and each has four large gates with a high tower ; which are placed, one in the middle of each side of the enclosure, and opposite to the four cardinal points. The outward wall is near four miles in circumference, and its gateway to the south is ornamented with pillars, several of which are single stones, 33 feet long, and nearly five in diameter : and those which OUT 251 form the roof are still larger ; in the inmost inclosures are the chapels.
Page 126 - ... calculus was more easy and natural where arithmetic was best handled. No such marked identity of the Hindu and Diophantine systems is observed, as to demonstrate communication. They are sufficiently distinct to justify the presumption, that both might be invented independently of each other. If, however, it be insisted, that a hint or suggestion, the seed of their knowledge, may have reached the Hindu mathematicians immediately from the Greeks of Alexandria, or mediately through those of Bactria,...