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... spiritual guides and priests to the whole people , of which position a trace survives in the saying , " The kammālan is guru to the world . " They still have their own priests , and do not rely on Brahmans ; they also perform priestly ...
... spiritual guides and priests to the whole people , of which position a trace survives in the saying , " The kammālan is guru to the world . " They still have their own priests , and do not rely on Brahmans ; they also perform priestly ...
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... spiritually progress . This re- ligious conception of a man's trade or profession as the heaven - ordained work of his caste , may best , perhaps , be likened to the honour of medieval knighthood . For the priest , learning ; for the ...
... spiritually progress . This re- ligious conception of a man's trade or profession as the heaven - ordained work of his caste , may best , perhaps , be likened to the honour of medieval knighthood . For the priest , learning ; for the ...
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... spiritual status in society ; national righteousness is often described by saying that " each man lived according to the dharma of his caste , down even to the dancing girl who excelled in the duties of her calling also . " The doctrine ...
... spiritual status in society ; national righteousness is often described by saying that " each man lived according to the dharma of his caste , down even to the dancing girl who excelled in the duties of her calling also . " The doctrine ...
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... spiritual atmosphere about it . Within the temple an altar was erected to Gana Deviyo , and a rag figure prepared , afterwards to serve as a scapegoat to receive the first " glance " of the newly - painted eyes . All these arrangements ...
... spiritual atmosphere about it . Within the temple an altar was erected to Gana Deviyo , and a rag figure prepared , afterwards to serve as a scapegoat to receive the first " glance " of the newly - painted eyes . All these arrangements ...
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... spiritual conception of the serious purpose of art , which we find expressed in the work of true craftsmen of whatever age or place , but perhaps more in India than anywhere else . In other words , it has only been when the craftsman ...
... spiritual conception of the serious purpose of art , which we find expressed in the work of true craftsmen of whatever age or place , but perhaps more in India than anywhere else . In other words , it has only been when the craftsman ...
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Ahmedabad APPENDIX art and craft artisans artists Arts of India beautiful BHIKKU blacksmith Brahmans Buddha Buddhist builders building C. R. ASHBEE carpenter caste century ceremony Ceylon cloth colour competition Coomaraswamy CRAFT GUILDS craftsmanship CRAFTSMEN OF SIAM cultivated culture decorated departmental district duties E. B. Havell East English festival FEUDAL CRAFTSMEN FOREWORD give gold goldsmith handicrafts HEARN ON CRAFT Heraclitus HEREDITARY CRAFTSMAN Hindu Indian Art Indian craftsman Indian village Industrial Arts industrial machinery inscription Japan Jātaka Kabir Panth kammalar Kandy Kandyan king king's kiriya of land Kottal-badde labour LAFCADIO HEARN Mahavamsa MARCO POLO master mediæval medieval merchant Mitrānanda organisation ornament painter painting palace payment person piece plaster present pupil Rāja Rāmāyana regulation religious royal armoury Sanskrit servants Sinhalese Sir George Birdwood Sir George Watt skill Smith society spiritual tenant things trade guilds traditional vihāra village community VILLAGE POTTER Visvakarma wages Western
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Page 71 - Waste not your time in idleness and indolence, and occupy yourselves with that which will profit yourselves and others beside yourself.
Page 24 - There are many that hate painting ; but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must come to feel that he cannot bestow individuality upon his work, and is thus forced to think of God, the Giver of life, and will thus increase in knowledge.
Page 104 - India, and who, for all the marvellous tissues and embroidery they have wrought, have polluted no rivers, deformed no pleasing prospects, nor poisoned any air ; whose skill and individuality the training of countless generations has developed to the highest...
Page 99 - ... remain in full municipal vigour all over the peninsula. Scythian, Greek, Saracen, Afghan, Mongol, and Maratha have come down from its mountains, and Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Dane up out of its seas, and set up their successive dominations in the land ; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide...
Page 101 - Europe to understand what things may be done by machinery, and what must be done by hand-work, if art is of the slightest consideration in the matter. But if, owing to the operation of certain economic causes, machinery were to be gradually introduced into India for the manufacture of its great traditional handicrafts, there would ensue an industrial revolution which, if not directed...
Page 102 - ... gold and silver earrings, and round tires like the moon, bracelets and tablets and nose-rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great temple, which rises over the grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank.
Page 58 - ... is to be beaten with the great Maul, he holds it, still sitting upon his Stool, and they must hammer it themselves, he only with his little Hammer knocking it sometimes into fashion. And if it be any thing to be filed, he makes them go themselves and grind it upon a Stone, that his labour of fileing may be the less ; and when they have done it as well as they can, he goes over it again with his file and finisheth it. That which makes these Smiths thus stately is, because the Towns People are...
Page 17 - Tanjore an agreement by which the entire guild binds itself to a contract executed on its behalf by an individual member of the guild for the supply of oil in perpetuity for a sacred lamp. The inscription runs as follows : ' We, all the following shepherds of this village . . . agree to become security for Eran Sattan, a shepherd of this village, (who) had received 90 ewes of this temple in order to supply ghl for burning one perpetual lamp.