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 98
... tradition , and stray remarks in the Buddhist Scripture , suggest the founder of modern Jainism to have preceded the author of Buddhism by about 50 years . Even if we hold , with modern European scholars , Vardhamana Mahavira to have ...
... tradition , and stray remarks in the Buddhist Scripture , suggest the founder of modern Jainism to have preceded the author of Buddhism by about 50 years . Even if we hold , with modern European scholars , Vardhamana Mahavira to have ...
Page 110
... tradition , all art takes its origin from the Vedas . This is , indeed , somewhat unjust to the Dravid races , who had peopled and civilised India long before the Vedic Aryans . But history is , as yet , relatively silent about their ...
... tradition , all art takes its origin from the Vedas . This is , indeed , somewhat unjust to the Dravid races , who had peopled and civilised India long before the Vedic Aryans . But history is , as yet , relatively silent about their ...
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... tradition in that art , there was distinctly an interlude of a Dark Age in the history of Indian Painting while the first Muslims overran the land . For 500 years and more , the Painter was neglected , despised , ostracised . But at ...
... tradition in that art , there was distinctly an interlude of a Dark Age in the history of Indian Painting while the first Muslims overran the land . For 500 years and more , the Painter was neglected , despised , ostracised . But at ...
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