Hindu Superiority: An Attempt to Determine the Position of the Hindu Race in the Scale of NationsVedic Yantralaya, 1922 - 428 pages |
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... Chivalrous conduct of Humayun.- A Muhammadan saves the Rathor dynasty 33 CHIVALRY . PAGE , Innate chivalry of Hindu character . x HINDU SUPERIORITY .
... Chivalrous conduct of Humayun.- A Muhammadan saves the Rathor dynasty 33 CHIVALRY . PAGE , Innate chivalry of Hindu character . x HINDU SUPERIORITY .
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... CHIVALRY . PAGE , Innate chivalry of Hindu character . - Chivalry of Sadoo . - Raja of Duttia.- The Rakhi . - Kanwar Prithvi - raj . - Rawal Chachick of Jaisalmer , - Chivalry of Rana Raj Singh . - Ill - judged humanity of the Hindus ...
... CHIVALRY . PAGE , Innate chivalry of Hindu character . - Chivalry of Sadoo . - Raja of Duttia.- The Rakhi . - Kanwar Prithvi - raj . - Rawal Chachick of Jaisalmer , - Chivalry of Rana Raj Singh . - Ill - judged humanity of the Hindus ...
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... chivalrous conduct . Their bravery . - Archery of the Hindus.- Indian swordsmen . - Classification of weapons . - Hindu weapons now extinct . - Firearms of the Hindus and their extensive employment . - Guns and cannons in medieval India ...
... chivalrous conduct . Their bravery . - Archery of the Hindus.- Indian swordsmen . - Classification of weapons . - Hindu weapons now extinct . - Firearms of the Hindus and their extensive employment . - Guns and cannons in medieval India ...
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... truthfulness , chivalry and honour was unrivalled ; their colonies 1 See Jevon's Logic , p . 9 . Ancient and Medieval India , Vol . II . p . 148 . filled the world , their kings " are still worshipped XXX HINDU SUPERIORITY .
... truthfulness , chivalry and honour was unrivalled ; their colonies 1 See Jevon's Logic , p . 9 . Ancient and Medieval India , Vol . II . p . 148 . filled the world , their kings " are still worshipped XXX HINDU SUPERIORITY .
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... chivalry . As the Mahabharata marked the zenith of Hindu greatness , so Shahabud - din's victory at Thaneshwar marked the sinking of the great luminary below the horizon . The great war which , as will be seen hereafter , influenced so ...
... chivalry . As the Mahabharata marked the zenith of Hindu greatness , so Shahabud - din's victory at Thaneshwar marked the sinking of the great luminary below the horizon . The great war which , as will be seen hereafter , influenced so ...
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Page vi - India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — 1 should point to India.
Page 114 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 34 - The Indians are naturally inclined to justice, and never depart from it in their actions. Their good faith, honesty, and fidelity to their engagements are well known, and they are so famous for these qualities that people flock to their country from every side.
Page 166 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 356 - AD 400 as a mean date — and it certainly is not far from the truth — it opens our eyes to an unsuspected state of affairs to find the Hindus at that age capable of forging a bar of iron larger than any that have been forged even in Europe up to a very late date, and not frequently even now.
Page vi - And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life — again I should point to India.
Page 1 - That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh, servile offspring of the free ! Pronounce what sea, what shore is this ? The gulf, the rock of Salamis ! These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch...
Page 275 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
Page 38 - ... each other ; and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilised people, then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe ; and if civilisation is to become an article of trade between the two countries, I am convinced that this country [England] will gain by the import cargo.
Page 252 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.