The Splendour that was ʾInd: A Survey of Indian Culture and Civilisation (from the Earliest Times to the Death of Emperor Aurangzeb)D. B. Taraporevala, 1930 - 236 pages |
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Page 81
... seems to have been a Ceylonese king ( 517-26 A. D. ) whose mastery of Sanskrit seems to be wonderful . This trickiness is carried to its highest in the Raghavapandaviya ( 800 B. C. ) of Kaviraja , who narrates the story of Ramayana and ...
... seems to have been a Ceylonese king ( 517-26 A. D. ) whose mastery of Sanskrit seems to be wonderful . This trickiness is carried to its highest in the Raghavapandaviya ( 800 B. C. ) of Kaviraja , who narrates the story of Ramayana and ...
Page 98
... seems to confirm , -very strangely , indeed , -the belief of the Jains . But it also seems to show how utterly impracticable the Jain dogma would be in daily life , if practised in its absolute rigour . Historians , however , agree that ...
... seems to confirm , -very strangely , indeed , -the belief of the Jains . But it also seems to show how utterly impracticable the Jain dogma would be in daily life , if practised in its absolute rigour . Historians , however , agree that ...
Page 136
... seems to have been wood ; and wood in India is peculiarly liable to decay and destruction . The Aryans of the Vedic age seem to have mastered the mysteries of carpentry and metal work , particularly of Ayas , ( copper , if not iron ) ...
... seems to have been wood ; and wood in India is peculiarly liable to decay and destruction . The Aryans of the Vedic age seem to have mastered the mysteries of carpentry and metal work , particularly of Ayas , ( copper , if not iron ) ...
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