Sir Asutosh Memorial VolumeJ.N. Samaddar, 1928 - India |
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Page 79 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 101 - O loved the most, when most I feel There is a lower and a higher ; Known and unknown ; human, divine ; Sweet human hand and lips and eye ; Dear heavenly friend that canst not die, Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine ; Strange friend, past, present, and to be ; Loved deeplier, darklier understood ; Behold, I dream a dream of good, And mingle all the world with thee.
Page 157 - Those who want to go away, may go; those who want to stop, may stop. The king in his administration uses no corporal punishments ; criminals are merely fined according to the gravity of their offences. Even for a second attempt at rebellion the punishment is only the loss of the right hand.
Page 158 - These live away from other people ; and when they approach a city or market, they beat a piece of wood, in order to distinguish themselves. Then people know who they are and avoid coming into contact with them. ' In this country they do not keep pigs or fouls, there are no dealings in cattle, no butchers' shops or distilleries in their market-places.
Page 27 - From those versed in the three Vedas let him learn the threefold (sacred science), the primeval science of government, the science of dialectics, and the knowledge of the (supreme) Soul ; from the people (the theory of) the (various) trades and professions.
Page 121 - This is the first point to be observed: if China may be regarded as nothing else but a State, Hindoo political existence presents us with a people, but no State. Secondly, while we found a moral despotism in China, whatever may be called a relic of political life in India, is a despotism without a principle, without any rule of morality and religion: for morality and religion (as far as the latter has a reference to human action) have as their indispensable condition and basis the freedom of the...
Page 155 - Its people are rich and thriving and emulate one another in practising charity of heart and duty to one's neighbour. Regularly every year, on the eighth day of the second moon, they have a procession of images. They make a four-wheeled car of five storeys by lashing together bamboos, and these storeys are supported by posts in the form of crescent-bladed halberds.
Page 43 - Let him not fight with those who are in fear, intoxicated, insane or out of their minds, nor with those who have lost their armour, nor with women, infants, aged men, and Brahmins" (Bodhayana, i, 10, 18, n). "The wives of slain soldiers were always provided for
Page 157 - The king in his administration uses no corporal punishments; criminals are merely fined according to the gravity of their offences. Even for a second attempt at rebellion the punishment is only the loss of the right hand. The men of the king's body-guard have all fixed salaries. Throughout the country no one kills any living thing, nor drinks wine, nor eats onions or garlic; but chandalas are segregated.
Page 282 - Let no lender for a month, or for two or three months, at a certain interest, receive such interest beyond the year ; nor any interest, which is unapproved ; nor interest upon interest by previous agreement ; nor...