Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volume 17; Volume 18, Issues 46-47The Society, 1889 Vol. 1-new ser., v. 7 include the society's Proceedings for 1841-1929 (title varies). |
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accent according Administration Report Agathias Ahura Mazda ancient Apabhr Apabhramsa Aśoka Avestâ Bangâlî Bhandarkar Bombay Government Bombay Presidency Brahmans Buddhist Bühler Cambyses century changed coins conjunct consonants corresponding Ctesias daughter derived dialects dropped English expired Fleet forms given Government of India Gujarâtî Gupta Hemachandra Herodotus Hindi Hindu Hiuen Thsang Hon'ble Hunza inscriptions instances instr Irânian king kori language latter learned Marathi marriage Max Müller modern next-of-kin marriages nouns observed original Pahlavi Pâli Pandit Bhagvánlál Panjâbî passage Persian plural Prâkrit preserved pronounced pronunciation Punjab Government Pûrṇavarma reference regard reign religion Royal Asiatic Society Sailendra Śaka Sanskrit Sanskrit words Saurasenî says scholars Senart Sindhî sing sister Society softened sound syllable Taluka termination tion traced translation vernaculars verse vowel writer Zoroastrian णु ना बुं
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Page 84 - ... costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations 'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the...
Page 103 - And so they neither warped the law through fear of Cambyses, nor ruined themselves by...
Page 100 - ... of consideration to which his literary merits would certainly never have entitled him, and which the course of detraction he pursued could alone have enabled him to gain. By the most unblushing effrontery he succeeded in palming off his narrative upon the ancient world as the true and genuine account of the transactions, and his authority was commonly followed in preference to. that of Herodotus, at least upon all points of purely Oriental history.
Page 103 - ... judges are certain picked men among the Persians, who hold their office for life, or until they are found guilty of some misconduct. By them justice is administered in Persia, and they are the interpreters of the old laws, all disputes being referred to their decision. When Cambyses, therefore, put his question to these judges, they gave him an answer which was at once true and safe — " they did not find any law," they said, " allowing a brother to take his sister to wife, but they fuund a...
Page xi - The Jardine Prize An Essay on the sources and development of Burmese Law from the era of the first introduction of the Indian Law to the time of the British occupation of Pegu.
Page 97 - So far as a claim to a high position among the curiosities of ancient moral lore is concerned, the reader may trust himself freely to the impression that he has before him an anthology which was probably composed with as fervent a desire to benefit the spiritual and moral natures of those to whom it was addressed as any which the world had yet seen.
Page 102 - Egypt, and lived with him as his wife, though she was his full sister, the daughter both of his father and his mother. The way wherein he had made her his wife was the following: — It was not the custom of the Persians, before his time, to marry their sisters — but Cambyses, happening to fall in love with one of his and wishing to take her to wife, as he knew that it was an uncommon thing, called together the royal judges, and put it to them, "whether there was any law which allowed a brother,...
Page 109 - God's providence, born equal—none brought into the world any property, or any natural right to possess more than another. Property and marriage were mere human inventions, contrary to the will of God, which required an equal division of the good things of this world among all, and forbade the appropriation of particular women by individual men. In communities based upon property and marriage, men might lawfully vindicate their natural rights by taking their fair share of the good things wrongfully...
Page 125 - Nask. The passage in Viraf in which European scholars discover the alleged practice of marriage between brothers and sisters, runs as follows : — " Viraf had seven sisters, and all these seven sisters were like a wife unto Viraf." — They spoke thus : " Do not this thing, ye Mazdayasna, for we are seven sisters and he is an only brother, and we are all seven sisters like a wife unto that brother.
Page 94 - It affords, indeed, proof of a great ethical tendency and of a very sober and profound way of thinking, that the Avesta people, or at least the priests of their religion, arrived at the truth that sins by thought must be ranked with sins 1 Humaia, hukhta, lmvarshta ' good thoughts, words and works'; united they form asha=$,kr. rta 'piety.' According to Darmesteter (Ormuzd et Ahriman, p. 8 seq.) these three notions had originally a liturgical signification, viz. = Skr. sumali 'devotion,' sukta ' saying,...