Journal of the Department of Letters, Volume 14Calcutta University Press, 1927 - Buddha (The concept) Contains contributions on various subjects, notably India, Buddhism, ancient chronology, etc. |
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... Mahomedan rulers here , used to command the passage to Bengal . It has therefore been with some exaggeration described as the Gallipoli of mediaeval Gaur " whose rulers spent their best energy and resources in fortifying the pass ...
... Mahomedan rulers here , used to command the passage to Bengal . It has therefore been with some exaggeration described as the Gallipoli of mediaeval Gaur " whose rulers spent their best energy and resources in fortifying the pass ...
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... Mahomedan cavaliers led by commanders like Bakhtyar and Mir Jumla and sheltered the Hindu States of Eastern Bengal and Kamrup . Let us now proceed to the consideration of the peninsular portion of India . It is well known that this ...
... Mahomedan cavaliers led by commanders like Bakhtyar and Mir Jumla and sheltered the Hindu States of Eastern Bengal and Kamrup . Let us now proceed to the consideration of the peninsular portion of India . It is well known that this ...
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... Mahomedan rule as also of the period immediately preceding it , gleaned from the accounts of the Mahomedan historians and copper- plate inscriptions , does not give us sufficient information about the social life of Bengal . The ...
... Mahomedan rule as also of the period immediately preceding it , gleaned from the accounts of the Mahomedan historians and copper- plate inscriptions , does not give us sufficient information about the social life of Bengal . The ...
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... Mahomedan and Mahomedan . The poets , though most of them belonged to the latter period , sometimes left accounts of facts which may be distinctly traced to the Hindu Epoch . The works treated of , in the following pages , roughly cover ...
... Mahomedan and Mahomedan . The poets , though most of them belonged to the latter period , sometimes left accounts of facts which may be distinctly traced to the Hindu Epoch . The works treated of , in the following pages , roughly cover ...
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... Mahomedan domination . Another custom , namely , that of trial by ordeal , was peculiar , and may be supposed to be an outcome of Buddhistic influences , though parallel cases may be found in the Rāmāyana and the Mahābhārata . This ...
... Mahomedan domination . Another custom , namely , that of trial by ordeal , was peculiar , and may be supposed to be an outcome of Buddhistic influences , though parallel cases may be found in the Rāmāyana and the Mahābhārata . This ...
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৷৷ Akshauhini Akshauhini of troops Ancient India appears arms Arthasastra Bansidās battle Bengal Brahmans Buddhism Calendrical cattle cavalry ceremonies Chandikavya chapter chariots colloquial conjunct consonants crow Cycle Deccan deity Dharma Dharmamangal poems Dravidian Duryodhana elephants enemy enemy's Epiphi fact fight Ganges give godling Gorakshanatha Gupta hechcha Hindu History horses Ibid importance Indian armies Indus valley infantry inscriptions Jātaka Kaurava Kautilya Kavikankan kind king Kistna known Kumāra literature Mahabharata Mahomedan Malayalam Manasamangal Maynamati Megasthenes mentioned military milk Moghul numerical strength officers ornament passage period poets Prahasta Pulakesin II purvas Rāmāyaṇa refers Rigveda route rulers Sanskrit Senapati ship Solar soldiers Sōthic sound Spheroid Sukraniti Tamil temple Trans translation tribes Udyogaparva Vaisyas Vedic verse vessel vowel weapons words worship Yavana Yudhishthira ओ हेच्च हेच করিয়া করিল করে ডিঙ্গা তার দিয়া দিল না নাহি পাছে পৃঃ বলে
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Page 15 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Page 108 - For two-thirds of the height it is a polygon of twelve sides; above that circular, till it attains the height of 84 ft. The door is at some distance from the ground, and altogether it looks more like an Irish...
Page 9 - Taking (for that purpose) eternal particles of Indra, of the Wind, of Yama, of the Sun, of Fire, of Varuna, of the Moon, and of the Lord of wealth (Kubera).
Page 83 - ... almost of necessity that they employed arches everywhere, and in every building that had any pretensions to permanency. The Bengal style being, however, the only one wholly of brick in India Proper, has a local individuality of its own, which is curious and interesting, though, from the nature of the material, deficient in many of the higher qualities of art which characterise the buildings constructed with larger and better materials. Besides elaborating a pointed-arched brick style of their...
Page 83 - Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bamboo, universally employ in their dwellings a curvilinear form of roof, which has become so familiar to their eyes that they consider it beautiful. It is so in fact when bamboo and thatch are the materials employed, but when translated into stone or brick architecture, its taste is more questionable.
Page 107 - One of these, that with the apsidal termination, stands a little detached from the rest. The other four stand in a line north and south, and look as if they had been carved out of a single stone or rock, which originally, if that were so, must have been between 35...
Page 24 - The fifth caste among the Indians consists of the warriors, who are second in point of numbers to the husbandmen, but lead a life of supreme freedom and enjoyment. They have only military duties to perform. Others make their arms, and others supply them with horses, and they have others to attend on them in the camp, who take care of their horses, clean their arms, drive their elephants, prepare their chariots, and act as their charioteers. As long as they are required to fight they fight, and when...
Page 24 - The fifth class consists of fighting men, who, when not engaged in active service, pass their time in idleness and drinking. They are maintained at the king's expense, and hence they are always ready, when occasion calls, to take the field, for they carry nothing of their own with them but their own bodies.
Page 108 - Jaunpore, nor any other style, but one purely local, and not without considerable merit in itself; its principal characteristic being heavy short pillars of stone supporting pointed arches and vaults, in brick — whereas at Jaunpore, for instance, light pillars carried horizontal architraves and flat ceilings.
Page 83 - ... nor imitating, but adhering steadily to the pointedarch style, which is the essential characteristic of their art in foreign countries. It is easy to understand, on the other hand, why in Bengal the trabeate style never was in vogue. The country is practically without stone, or any suitable material for forming either pillars or beams. Having nothing but brick, it was almost of necessity that they employed arches everywhere, and in every building that had any pretensions to permanency.