Hellenism in Ancient IndiaButterworth, 1920 - 344 pages |
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Page 11 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone ; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.
Page 26 - Indian soil at the end of the first century or the beginning of the second...
Page 209 - had been known to Panini, some of the grammatical terms would surely point to the graphical appearance of words. I maintain that there is not a single word in Panini's terminology which presupposes the existence of writing.
Page 116 - Griffiths very justly remarks on this picture that " for pathos and sentiment and the unmistakeable way of telling its story this picture, I consider, cannot be surpassed in the history of art. The Florentines could have put better drawing, and the Venetians better colour, but neither could have thrown greater expression into it.
Page 177 - ... They are sufficiently distinct to justify the presumption, that both might be invented independently of each other. If, however, it be insisted, that a hint or suggestion, the seed of their knowledge, may have reached the Hindu mathematicians immediately from the Greeks of Alexandria, or mediately through those of Bactria, it must at the same time be confessed, that a slender germ grew and fructified rapidly, and soon attained an approved state of maturity in Indian soil.
Page 165 - Sanscrit works had been borrowed from the Greeks. Sir William Jones was amongst the first to enter the lists against this Grecian theory; and he thus throws down his glove in defence of the antiquity and originality of the science of astronomy in India. " I engage to support an opinion (which the learned and industrious M. Montucla seems to treat with extreme contempt) that the Indian division of the...
Page 209 - ... in the Vedas, or during the whole of the Brahmana period, and the almost if not quite as complete silence as to them throughout the Sutra period, "lead us to suppose that even then [the Sutra period], though the art of writing began to be known, the whole literature of India was preserved by oral tradition only.
Page 157 - Their calendar, both civil and religious, was governed chiefly, not exclusively, by the moon and the sun : and the motions of these luminaries were carefully observed by them, and with such success, that their determination of the moon's synodical revolution, which was what they were principally concerned with, is a much more correct one than the Greeks ever achieved.
Page 42 - The foundation of Taxila goes back to a very remote age, but of the epoch before Alexander the Great we know practically nothing beyond the fact that it was probably included in the Achaemenian Empire of Persia, and that it enjoyed a great reputation as a University town — famous for the arts and sciences of the day. Alexander descended on the Panjab and received the submission of Taxila in 326 BC, but four years later the Macedonian garrisons were driven out by...
Page 215 - Asoka and on certain coins, the characters of which were written from right to left, instead of from left to right, as was the case with its contemporaneous Indian script, and to which had been attached the name of Kharostri.