Alexander : (356-323 BC), son of Philip II, king of Macedonia (376-323). In 333 & 331 Alexander defeated king of Persia, the last of the line of Darius & Xerxes, the next year the Persian king died & Alexander became master of the Achaemenian Empire. In 327, he garrisoned a number of strongholds near modern Kābul & attacked the hill tribes of the Kunar & Swāt valleys; stormed the fortresses on his way to the city of Pushkalāvatī of Gāndhāra which too he ‘conquered’; then on through dense jungles to Ohind (326 BC). Āmbhi, who had exiled his father the king of Takshashilā, received the invader in his own capital with obsequious pomp & provided every support for him to invade neighbouring kingdoms. But on coming to the Indus, the megalomaniac found arrayed on the opposite bank, the huge army of the elder Pururava King, a man of gigantic & powerful build, who was mortified by the pusillanimous conduct of his Takshashilān neighbour. Devious & unethical like every invader has always been, Alexander diverted Pururava’s attention & crossed over at a sharp bend of the river about seventeen miles above his camp, under cover of a thickly wooded promontory over a bridge of boats, onto a mid-stream island covered with jungle. The small force that had hurried to dispute the passage was easily routed. The Paurava reached there with 30,000 foot, 4,000 horses, 300 chariots, & 200 elephants, but made the mistake of allowing the Macedonians to take the offensive with the superior cavalry. He did not flee, but went on fighting on a mighty elephant until he received a severe wound. The invader next overran the petty principalities & tribal territories in the vicinity of the realm of the great Paurava. He crossed the River Chandra [renamed Chenāb] & her sister Irāvati (q.v.) stormed Sāngal, the stronghold of the Kathaioi, & moved on to the Beas. He wished to press forward to the Ganges valley, but his war-worn troops rebelled, so he erected twelve towering altars to mark the utmost limit of the devastation he had achieved, & sent home a part of his troops through Afghānistān. He led the rest ravaging the territory of free & warlike tribes inhabiting the lower valley murdering thousands of civilians, men, women & children. Inhabitants of a city, preferring death to dishonour, threw themselves into the flame in the manner of the Rājputs who practiced Jauhar in later times. The conqueror himself, received a dangerous wound while storming one of the citadels of the powerful tribe of the Mālavas. The subdued nations made presents of chariots, bucklers, gems, draperies, lions, tigers, etc. The maddened megalomaniac reduced the principalities of Sind, & trudged through the deserts of Baluchistān, & after terrible sufferings, reached Babylon where he died in 323 BC. [Vide S. Bhattacharya, D.I.H., R.C. Majumdar et al’s Advanced History of India; Internet]
... Alexander the great Alexander young Alexander the Great Alexander was born on the sixth day of the month Hecatombaeon,1 which the Macedonians call Lous, the same day on which the temple of Artemis at Ephesus was burned down. It was this coincidence which inspired Hegesias of Magnesia to utter a joke which was flat enough to have put the fire out: he... as Craneion, Alexander went in person to see him and found him basking at full length in the sun. When he saw so many people approaching him, Diogenes raised himself a little on his elbow and fixed his gaze upon Alexander. The king greeted him and inquired whether he could do anything for him. "Yes" replied the philosopher, "you can stand a little to one side out of my sun." Alexander is said to have... thought that Alexander ought to observe the Macedonian tradition concerning the time of year, according to which the king of Macedonia never made war during the month of Daesius. Alexander swept aside these scruples! by giving orders that the month should be called a second Artemisius And when Parmenio advised him against risking the crossing at such a late hour of the day, Alexander declared that ...
... Death of Alexander. Suggestions for further reading Badian, E. Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind. Historia, 1958, 425.44. Bum, A. R. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1962. Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization: Part II, The Life of Greece. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Green, Peter. Alexander the Great. Weidenfeld... Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. Alexander of Macedon. Penguin Books. Hamilton, J. R. Alexander the Great. Hutchinson University Library, 1973. Renault, Mary. The Nature of Alexander. England, Penguin Books, 1983. Robinson, CA. The Extraordinary Ideas of Alexander the Great. American Hist. Review, 1957, 326-44. Tam, Sir William, and Griffith, G. T. Hellenistic Civilization... knowledge that Aristotle could have put at Alexander's disposal would have made Alexander, if he so chose, a great master of knowledge. Why, we may ask, did this not happen? What exactly was the determining factor that made Alexander a conqueror of lands and men instead of an expert scholar or an illumined sage? Did Alexander ever ask himself, consciously and reflectively, what his aim of life should be ...
... of Seleucus who stood in the very shoes of Alexander vis-à-vis India. Seleucus alone was concerned with the fate of the Indian province of his master and came, as it were, as a second Alexander. Consequently, when he and his son began to be deified and worshipped just like Alexander, they in particular would inherit in India the title by which Alexander made himself known on Indian soil: "Son of... Theos), that of Ptolemy, King of Egypt (Ptolemy II Philadelphus), that of Magas, King of Cyrene, brother of Ptolemy, that of Antigonus (Gonatas) of Macedonia, lastly, that of Alexander (either Alexander of Epirus or Alexander of Corinth). To reach Antioch, Alexandria, Cyrene, Macedonia, Epirus or Corinth from India, it would be necessary to pass by Palmyra, and the mention of this celebrated oasis... 2. Arrian's Life of Alexander the Great, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt (The Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1958), p. 226. Page 434 This was evidently in answer to a command translated to Dan-damis (Dandi-Swāmī?) to meet Alexander, "Son of God". In fact, another account 1 preserves the words of the command: "The son of the mighty god Zeus, King Alexander, who is the sovereign ...
... India which was conquered by Alexander. So the Gangaridai stretch from the frontiers of the Punjāb where Alexander halted, across Madhyadeśa (Middle Country) through Māgadha to Lower Bengal. "A westerly extension of the Gangaridai is proved also when Diodorus (XVII, 9) 1 recounts how the Younger Porus fled for shelter to the nation of the Gangaridai from Alexander advancing beyond the Acesines... For, just after saying that even up to his day the altars which Alexander erected to commemorate his farthest point in India were visited by the kings of the Prasii, Plutarch brings in Sandrocottus a second time: "Androcottus himself, who was then but a youth, saw Alexander himself and afterwards used to declare that Alexander could easily have taken possession of the whole country..." And, since... The Gangaridai were the real and immediate 'nation' Alexander would have faced on reaching the Ganges. The Prasii were secondary and subsidiary, merely a background enemy. Under Xandrames's command they were a minor force. If he ruled over them - and was not just their leader, a sort of temporary king over them in a coalition against Alexander - it must have been over just a part, a part which ...
... with whom Alexander already had friendly relations. But many others had refused. Because of this, Alexander was obliged to open a way by force to the Indus. Alexander drove his troops to the border of the Pauravas. Before crossing, he sent a messenger to Porus inviting him to submit himself to his tutelage.1 But Porus was not a man to bow without a fight. He proudly answered: — I will indeed come... ordered one of his aides-de-camp to lead him to Alexander. When the king of Macedon saw him approach, he stepped out to meet him. The beauty of this man, who was over seventy years old, and the nobility of his attitude filled Alexander with admiration. He had never seen a man show such greatness of being in adversity. 1 After the usual greetings, Alexander asked him how he wanted to be dealt with. ... Alexander the great Three anecdotes of Alexanders life and conquests The Battle with Porus Before leaving Nikaia, Alexander had sent messengers to all the Indian princes residing in the lower valley of Cophen to invite them to recognize him as their suzerain and to come to pay him homage. A few of them had answered favourably, notably Taxiles, with ...
... Alexander the great Alexander The Soul of a Conqueror (A portrait of Alexander by Will Durant The intellectual career of Aristotle, after he left his royal pupil, paralleled the military career of Alexander; both lives were expressions of conquest and synthesis. Perhaps it was the philosopher who instilled into the mind of the youth that ardor... ambitions, and was fused into a passion by his maternal blood. If we would understand Alexander we must always remember that he bore in his veins the drunken vigor of Philip and the barbaric intensity of Olympias. Furthermore, Olympias claimed descent from Achilles. Therefore the Iliad had a special fascination for Alexander; when he crossed the Hellespont he was, in his interpretation, retracing the steps... body, Lysimachus taught him letters, Aristotle tried to form his mind. Philip was anxious that Alexander should study philosophy, "so that," he said, "you may not do a great many things of the son that I am sorry to have done." To some extent Aristotle made a Hellene of him; through all his life Alexander admired Greek literature, and envied Greek civilization. To two Greeks sitting with him at the ...
... Alexander the great Uprising at Opis Alexander left Susa in the spring 324. With his light troops he boarded the fleet of Nearchus and went down towards the sea, with the intention of exploring the Persian Gulf. In the meantime, Hephestion was to lead the main body of the troops to Opis, where Alexander planned to meet him at the beginning of the summer. Opis... its geographical situation, which is why Alexander had chosen it to be the centre of his military administration. He had built a gigantic camp which served as a depot, arsenal and war machine storage. Here the young recruits coming from Greece were enrolled; and from here they set off to join their garrison located on the borders of the Empire. When Alexander reached there in July 324, he found the... soldiers exasperated. Their anger, for a long time repressed, burst out suddenly and rapidly into a general uprising. Alexander had barely arrived at Opis before he had measured the gravity of the situation. A storm was coming. To bow down and let it pass was impossible. Alexander convened all the soldiers in a general assembly. When they had gathered, he mounted a platform that stood in front of ...
... abnormal excitement or temporary indulgence of their passions, the birthmark came out and showed itself in acts of often insane tyranny. This was especially the case with Alexander; but Napoleon was not free from the same taint. Alexander, we know, strove consciously to mould his life into an Iliad; Napoleon regarded his as a Titanic epic and when facts would not fit in ideally with his conception of himself... nature that the poetic temperament should be by its nature absolutely unfitted for practical action & regal power. Nero & Charles I were artistic temperaments cursed with the doom of kingship. But Alexander of Macedon & Napoleon Buonaparte were poets on a throne, and the part they played in history was not that of incompetents & weaklings. There are times when Nature gifts the poetic temperament with... portents Page 198 & wonders, whom posterity admires or hates but can only imperfectly understand. Like Joan of Arc or Mazzini & Garibaldi they save a dying nation, or like Napoleon & Alexander they dominate a world. They are only possible because they only get full scope in races which unite with an ardent & heroic temperament a keen susceptibility to poetry in life, idealism, & hero worship ...
... name had been mentioned in a Greek form by foreign writers on India soon after the invasion of the Punjāb by Alexander the Great in 326 B.C. Outstanding among these writers was Megasthenes, the ambassador sent to India in c. 302 B.C. by Seleucus Nicator, the chief successor of Alexander in the East. He came to the court of the king whom the Greeks called Sandrocottus and whose capital they designated... been identified with the Maurya adventurer Chandragupta who. like him, founded a dynasty in Magadha. Since Sandrocottus is reported to have not been a king when as an ambitious youth he first met Alexander and-to have already mounted the throne when in c. 305 B.C. Seleucus crossed the Indus to invade India but was pushed back by Sandrocottus, Chandragupta Maurya's accession to the Magadhan 1... solidly fixed between 326 and 305 B.C. This kingship has to be distinguished from a monarchical status won in the Indus-region in relation to a conflict with the foreign governors left behind by Alexander. Interpreting, on the one hand, the Greek background for it and, on the other, the Buddhist tradition, modern historians, by and large, favour 321 B.C. 1 Here, or close to it, is a point of certainty ...
... who had very thoroughly instructed him in ancient history, calling up the story of Alexander, dwelt on the well-known incident of his physician Philip, which has often been represented on canvas, and is surely well worth the trouble.' The tutor, a man of worth, made several reflections on the intrepidity of Alexander which did not please me, but which I refrained from combating in order not to discredit... " 2. A letter of Rousseau to Madame Latour de Franqueville, September 26,1762, informs us that this young man was the Count de Gisors. 3. Alexander the Great. 4. Bucephalus. The horse was frightened only at his own shadow. The young Alexander discovered the cause and the remedy. 5 'You yourself are one," some one will say. I am, to my sorrow, I acknowledge; and my faults, which I think... finely recited to him, I took him by the hand and we made the tour of the park together. Having questioned Page 249 him with perfect freedom, I found that he admired the boasted courage of Alexander more than any other one of the company; but can you imagine in what particular he saw his courage? It was merely in the fact of having swallowed at a single draught a disagreeable potion without ...
... a few thousand years old. If survival was the aim of nature, life would never have appeared. Other significant philosophical theories have also come to be formulated. According to Samuel Alexander, the whole process of the universe is a historic growth from space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time breaks up into finites of e... The whole world is now engaged in the production of deity. As time is the very substance of reality, no being can exhaust the future. Even God is a creature of time. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) Page 50 Alexander's philosophy is called the philosophy of emergent evolution. According to him, when physical structure assumes a certain complexity, life 'emerges'... When the physical structure alters in complexity, as it does when it produces a central nervous system, 'mind' emerges, and the gap between life and conscious behaviour is supposed to be covered. Alexander finds the explanation in a nisus or thirst of the universe for higher levels. It is the nisus that is creative, that satisfies the thirst. But is nisus an unconscious drive coming by degrees ...
... a few thousand years old. If survival was the aim of nature, life would never have appeared. Other significant philosophical theories have also come to be formulated. According to Samuel Alexander, the whole process of the universe is a historic growth from space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time breaks up into finites of ever... When the physical structure alters in complexity, as it does when it produces a central nervous system, 'mind' emerges, and the gap between life and conscious behaviour is supposed to be covered. Alexander finds the explanation in a nisus or thirst of the universe for higher levels. It is the nisus that is creative; that satisfies the thirst. But is nisus an unconscious drive coming by degrees... a spiritual power ever drawing on its resources and ever expressing new forms, Alexander's whole account becomes unsatisfactory. Page 277 Lloyd Morgan, who comes very close to Alexander in his account of emergent evolution, acknowledges God as the nisus through whose Activity emergents emerge, and the whole course of emergent evolution is directed. According to him, God is not the ...
... for hundreds of millions of years, while even the oldest tree is only a few thousand years old. If survival was the aim of nature, life would never have appeared.¹¹ Samuel Alexander According to Samuel Alexander (1859-1938),¹² the whole process of universe is an evolutionary growth from space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time... between life and conscious behaviour is supposed to be covered. Alexander finds explanation of the evolutionary process in a nisus or thirst of the universe for higher levels. It is the nisus that is creative and seeks to satisfy the underlying thirst. Lloyd Morgan Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936), who comes very close to Alexander in his account of emergent evolution, acknowledges God as the nisus ...
... and months from Dionysus to Alexander, it holds both for the time-span and for the king-series. Separating, as we do, from Alexander the king-series and joining it to Sandrocottus, while keeping for Alexander the time-span found in Solinus as well as in Pliny, we may formulate the situation: "6451 years and 3 months stretch out between the reigns of Dionysus and Alexander in India. After Dionysus... Bhārata War are the principal theme of the Purānic lists of dynasties. Sandrocottus and not Alexander was certainly the terminus intended by Megasthenes to the king-series the Indians mentioned to him. Along with this series there must go also a time-span other than any pertaining to Alexander. True, Alexander and Sandrocottus were contemporaries and the gap of 409 dividing Pliny's and Solinus's... 4-5) reports about the Indians: "From the days of Father Bacchus to Alexander the Great, their kings are reckoned at 154, whose reigns extend over 6451 years and 3 months." Solinus (52.5) says: "Father Bacchus was the first who invaded India, and was the first of all who triumphed over the vanquished Indians. From him to Alexander the Great 6451 years are reckoned with 3 months additional, the ...
... from the point where Alexander stood on the Hyphasis are: "168 miles to the Hesidrus (Śutudru, Sutlej), and to the river Jomanes (Yamunā) as many (some copies add 5 miles); from thence to the Ganges 12 miles." This makes the Ganges, at the most (168+168+5 + 112=) 453 miles away. By the same table the mouths of the Ganges are over 2,600 miles off. So the place where Alexander would have touched the... Praisiai were reported to be waiting for (Alexander)..." Both Curtius and Plutarch reverse Diodorus's order. And Diodorus himself, going on to say more about King Xandrames, has the words: 4 "...the king of the Gandaridai..." He omits the Prasioi altogether, as if only the Gangaridai really mattered, as if it was they who were prominent and Alexander had to combat Xandrames as their king... must take stock of what Plutarch 1 writes a little later of the youth "Androcottus" ("Sandrocottus" in Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, Appian and Justin): "Androcottus...saw Alexander himself and afterwards used to declare that Alexander could easily have taken possession of the whole country since the king was hated and despised by his subjects for the wickedness of his disposition and the meanness of ...
... Alexander the great Alexander as a general, leader of men and king of Asia When Alexander died, he was not yet thirty-three. He was carried off at the very height of his youthful vigour, like his ancestor and model Achilles.! He had not completed the thirteenth year of his reign. A retrospect of his gigantic life work brings before us a personality of... great men of antiquity;" that is true of no one more than Alexander. (...) This firm belief in his mission gave him an absolute confidence in victory, without which his will and actions would be unintelligible. The supernatural in his temperament gave him also control over men. The general and the statesman are indissolubly bound up in Alexander; as a general he was the executor of his political will... process of evolution when he died. Alexander is the type of the royal general, who has unlimited control over the military material and apparatus of his country and is responsible to himself alone. He had no trials for conduct in the field to fear, such as the Athenian democracy loved, and no need to whitewash himself. (...) He had further the good Alexander in battle (detail of sarcophagus ...
... Alexander the great Alexander Alexander the Great But Alexander of Macedon and Napoleon Buonaparte were poets on a throne, and the part they played in history was not that of incompetents and weakling. There are times when Nature gifts the poetic temperament with a peculiar grasp of the conditions of action and irresistible tendency to create their... knowledge that Aristotle could have put at Alexander's disposal would have made Alexander, if he so chose, a great master of knowledge. Why, we may ask, did this not happen? What exactly was the determining factor that made Alexander a conqueror of lands and men instead of an expert scholar or an illumined sage? Did Alexander ever ask himself, consciously and reflectively, what his aim of life should be... Garibaldi, they save a dying nation or like Napoleon and Alexander they dominate the world. They are only possible because they only get full scope in races which unite with an ardent and heroic temperamenat, a keen susceptibility to poetry in life, idealism and hero workship. Sri Aurobindo, Centenary Edition, Vol III — pp. 198-99 Alexander was born in 356 B.C. His father. King Philip of Macedonia ...
... Badian, E. — Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind Historia, 1958. pp.425-44 Burn, A. R . — Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1962 Durant, Will. —The Story of Civilization: Part II, The Life of Greece, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966 Green, Peter. — Alexander the Great. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970 — Alexander of Macedon. Penguin... Penguin Books Hamilton J.R — Alexander the Great, Hutchinson University Library, Plutarch, — The Age of Alexander—Nine Greek Lives, Penguin Books Translation and notes: lan Scot-Kilvert, 1973 Renault, Mary — The Nature of Alexander, Penguin Books, U.K., 1983 Robinson,C.A. — The Extraordinary Ideas of Alexander the Great American Historical Review, 1957, pp. 326-44 Tarn, Sir William, and... Griffith, G. T. — Hellenistic Civilization Arnold.3rded.l952 WilckenUlrich —Alexander the Great, WW Norton and Company A few dates 356 B.C. — Birth of Alexander 336 B.C. — Alexander (aged 20) becomes king of Macedon following the assassination of his father Philip 334 B.C. — Alexander crosses the Hellespont into Asia 332 B.C. — Invasion of Egypt. Foundation of Alexandria ...
... cannot be understood apart from the career of Alexander. John Gustav Droysen wrote: "The name of Alexander betokens1 the end of one world epoch, and the beginning of another." (...) Through the unexpected early death of Alexander the leaders of the army present at Babylon were suddenly faced by extreme- ly difficult problems. The conduct of the deliberations fell to Perdiccas to whom the dying... latest plans of Alexander, and it was unanimously resolved to cancel them — which was natural enough, as these plans served precisely the ideas of Alexander to which the Macedonians had for years presented a fruitless opposition. This decision affected alike the policy of fusion and the policy of world empire, which was to lead to the conquest of the West. The two favourite ideas of Alexander, which stirred... Philip Arrhidaeus was murdered and the little Alexander with his unhappy mother Roxane too. The house of Alexander ended in massacre. No longer was there a king, but only satraps fighting, and fighting each other for power. In this way the unity of Alexander's empire was lost. (...) As the result of over forty years of fighting out of the empire of Alexander three great monarchies came into being: ...
... when Chandragupta and Chanakya were building the first historic Indian empire, the country was still covered with free kingdoms and republics and there was no united empire to meet the great raid of Alexander. It is evident that if any hegemony had previously existed, it had failed to discover a means or system of enduring permanence. This might however have evolved if time had been given, but a serious... and from this time forward the trans-Indus countries, ceasing to be part of India, ceased also to be its protection and became instead the secure base for every successive invader. The inroad of Alexander brought home the magnitude of the danger to the political mind of India and from this time we see poets, writers, political thinkers constantly upholding the imperial ideal or thinking out the means... empire. These earlier foreign invasions and their effects have to be seen in their true proportions, which are often disturbed by the exaggerated theories of oriental scholars. The invasion of Alexander was an eastward impulsion of Hellenism that had a work to do in western and central Asia, but no future in India. Immediately ejected by Chandragupta, it left no traces. The entrance of the Graec ...
... is John Robinson who is reborn as Sidi Hossain, is a creation of the mentality. Achilles was not reborn as Alexander, but the stream of force in its works which created the momentarily changing mind and body of Achilles flowed on and created the momentarily changing mind and body of Alexander. Still, said the ancient Vedanta, there is yet something beyond this force in action, Master of it, one who... some centuries hence will reincarnate in another form of flesh and resume the course of his terrestrial experiences with another name and in another environment. Achilles, let us say, is reborn as Alexander, the son of Philip, a Macedonian, conqueror not of Hector but of Darius, with a wider scope, with larger destinies; but it is still Achilles, it is the same personality that is reborn, only the bodily ...
... to create an inspiring portrait than to evaluate facts. At any rate, in the case of Alexander the Great, his achievements, his influence on the world, and his personal character were certainly awe-inspiring. That much was clearly perceived by Plutarch, and he did manage to communicate it in the chapter on Alexander. Page 89 ... Alexander the great Notes Plutarch Plutarch was one of the last classical Greek historians. He was born around AD 46 at Chaeronea in Boetia, and died sometime after AD 120. He was a student in the School of Athens, became a philosopher, and wrote a large number of essays and dialogues on philosophical, scientific and literary subjects (the Moralia) ...
... MANILAL: I am not beating Satyen. PURANI: Nobody beats him. SRI AUROBINDO: Nobody can beat anybody. DR. MANILAL: It is like the story about Alexander, Sir. Alexander wanted to take away an Indian Sadhu with him. The Sadhu refused. Alexander threatened him with punishment of death. The Sadhu replied, "You have never uttered a greater lie in your life." (Laughter) I believe, Sir, that you ...
... labelled as "Yona": Turamāya, Arhtekini, Magā (or Makā), Alikasudara. These too have been equated with the post-Alexandrine Ptolemy of Egypt, Antigonus of Macedon, Magas of Cyrene and Alexander of Epirus or Alexander of Corinth. But it is forgotten that the 5 Greek kings concerned were not the only ones in the post-Alexandrine age. There were some others of equal if not greater importance whose omission... that province. 326 B.C. The crossing of the Indus by Alexander on April 13, early morning. The Nāga king Chandrarhsa (known as Xandrames to the Greeks) reigned over the Indian interior about the Ganges and - at the head of the Gangetic peoples termed the Gangaridai by the Greeks - waited beyond the Ganges to give battle to Alexander if he should advance deeper into India. 315 B.C... us's son Amitrachates to whose court also a Greek Page 591 ambassador had come - Daimachus - in the wake of Megasthenes and his successor Dionysius. Ever since the sojourn of Alexander the Great in India a Greek colony had existed in "Arachosia", the region around Kandahār. Precisely in the period 275-225 B.C., to which the Greek version of the Kandahār bilingual is dated, the ...
... 278 Albērūnī, 18-27, 41, 131, 217, 227-8, 231, 366-7, 486, 490, 515-6, 517, 518, 604 Albright, W. F., v Alemukham/Alikamukham, 278 Alexander, 278; of Corinth, Epirus, i, 235, 267 Alexander the Great, ii, vii, viii, 1, 15, 61, 64, 65, 99-102, 153-4, 155-6, 157, 159, 161, 225, 250, 261, 262, 272, 434, 436, 455-6, 484, 498, 523, 526, 527... The Vedic Age, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker (Macmillan, London, 1953). Page 606 Archaeological Survey of India, 1912-13, 1926 Arrian, Life of Alexander the Great, tr. by Aubrey de Selincourt (The Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1958) L'Inde - Texte établit et traduit par Pierre Chantraine (Paris, 1927) Anabasis and Indica , tr. by... CCXLVI, 1, 1958. 1, Paris "Edits d'Aśoka en Traduction Grecque", Journal Asiatque, CCLII, 1966, Fascicule 2, Paris Titres wt Noms Propres en Iranien ancien Bevan, E. R., "Alexander the Great", "India in Early Greek and Latin Literature", The Cambridge History of India, edited by E. J. Rapson, 1922, I Bhandarkar, D. R., Aśoka (University of Calcutta, 1932) ...
... weighty chronological tilt from Megasthenes favouring the founder of the Imperial Guptas instead of the founder of the Maurya dynasty as the Indian original of the Greeks' Sandrocottus in the time of Alexander and his immediate successor Seleucus Nicator, there are substantial considerations to support the former and not the latter Indian monarch. The most obvious and perhaps the most decisive point... father of Xandrames, for Mookerji 2 has rightly reasoned that if Sandrocottus had himself been illegitimate or had borne the taint of extreme ancestral "meanness" he could not have emphasized to Alexander the detestation in which the then-reigning king of the Indian interior was held by his subjects. Do we find Chandragupta Maurya "born in humble life" in the way wanted? The Brāhmanical tradition... is military stature. All Greek and Latin documents paint Sandrocottus as a mighty warrior, a hero in his own right, one whose strong arm was felt not only in the Indus-region by the prefects whom Alexander had left behind and by Seleucus Nicator afterwards but also in various other parts of India. However, the one outstanding fact about Chandragupta Maurya is that he was a mere instrument in the hands ...
... he stands up Firm with his will uplifted a steadfast flame towards the heavens, Ares works in his heart and Hephaestus burns in his labour." Priam replied to his son: "Forewilled by the gods, Alexander, All things happen on earth and yet we must strive who are mortals, Knowing all vain, yet we strive; for our nature seizing us always Drives like the flock that is herded and urged towards shambles... of his fathers. Peace dwells not in thy aspect. Sowst thou a seed then of ruin Cast from the inflexible heart and the faltering tongue of Aeneas, Or with the golden laugh of the tameless bright Alexander?" Grey Talthybius answered, "Surely their doom has embraced them Wrapping her locks round their ears and their eyes, lest they see and escape her, Kissing their tongue with her fatal lips and dictating ...
... of the lot. Kindly let us know the truth. Among your other and non-poetic incarnations, some surmise Alexander and Julius Caesar. Good Heavens, all that! You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am unconscious of Dante and Valmiki, ...
... Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eyes can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing … Thus wrote the popular poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in his Essay on Man . (The wonders revealed by the microscope – the “glass” – were thrilling the intelligentsia of those days.) Wilber writes that evolution is fully compatible... rather exceptional. But not only is man part of the chain, he seems to be positioned somewhere in the middle on it, halfway up or halfway down, higher than the animals, lower than the angels. To quote Alexander Pope again: Plac’d in this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic pride, He hangs ...
... universally enfolded and progressively unfolded, but he cannot give proper form to his sense and remains, as far as intellectual terms are concerned, within the confines of a noble naturalism. Samuel Alexander, who considers mind as being in our experience a "continuum" of conscious acts while from the scientific standpoint it is a "continuum" of neural motions in the brain and who suggests a basic reality... of the scientific age would be incomplete. One is with regard to further evolution. Of course the idea of evolution, which is at white heat in Bergson though a kindling force too in Lloyd Morgan, Alexander and Whitehead, is the central dynamic of all modern thought playing round the word "Progress". Man is the product of evolution and, by his highly awakened consciousness, he is the supreme spearhead ...
... dangling a long string of names: "Were you Homer, were you Shakespeare, were you Valmiki, Dante, Virgil, Milton?" And he stoutly said "No." I asked him also whether he had been Alexander and Julius Caesar. He replied that Alexander was too much of a torrent for him and, as for Caesar, he said: "You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted for misappropriation ...
... thunder through Asia plain to the Ganges": With this line Briseis takes us almost a thousand years after the Trojan war when Alexander the Great was to fulfill Achilles' vision of a unified land going from Xanthus to the Ganges. Exceptional man of war and great visionary, Alexander conquered the whole Persian Empire (334-326 BC) from the Mediterranean to the Indus valley, thus spreading Hellenistic culture ...
... he had again retired from combat, but not for the traditional reason of his mourning for Patroclus. He returns to the fight, considerably mellowed in temper but with new ambitions prophetic of Alexander the Great, only after the Trojans reject his offer of peace and his request for Polyxena's hand. He is destined in his last battle to slay the Amazon queen Penthesilea and to die, shot in the heel... London: Hamlin Publishing group Ltd Page 128 Other titles in the Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Series Parvati's Tapasya Nala and Damayanti The Siege of Troy Alexander the Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men —Jean Monnet Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Page 129 ...
... lot. Kindly let us know the truth. Among your other and non-poetic incarnations, some surmise Alexander and Julius Caesar. Sri Aurobindo: Good Heavens, all that! You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am unconscious of Dante and Valmiki ...
... manuscript but who had admired Bach's Stranger to the Ground, sent him a routine note asking if he had any new work in hand. The rest is history. "Fate had turned my card over," Bach observed to Shana Alexander of Newsweek (July 9,1973). In 1972 Jonathan Livingston Seagull was selected for distribution by the Book-of-the-Month Club and for condensation by the Reader's Digest books, and Avon Books... There are translations in a dozen languages, and a film version. Tall and rangy in appearance, Richard Bach has a bushy moustache, a crinkly smile, and a slightly bemused expression. Shana Alexander in her News-week article described him as "a courteous and serene man." When asked if he himself is Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach replied, "No, I'm still way back there, flapping like crazy ...
... done. If it is done in a vital spirit or with a vital motive it may be sin. Would you say that the Sannyasi who committed suicide in the story about Alexander engaged in an act of sin? DR. MANILAL: I don't know the story. SRI AUROBINDO: When Alexander was returning to Greece he wanted to take with him two Sannyasis. One refused, the other accompanied him. But after some time the latter had a severe ...
... of a satirical poem and a satirical drama, both the work of Shyamsundar Chakravarti. The verse skit was the supposed effusion of "Alexander-de-Convention during his unhappy abode in the Sleepy Hollow at Surat", and it was in obvious imitation of Cowper's Alexander Selkirk.51 The phrase "Sleepy Hollow" carried most of the indictment. The play - 'The Slaying of the Congress - a Tragedy in Three ...
... beaches, and so gathered about him thousands of pilgrims who listened to his talks, pregnant with sarcastic remarks about society. Even Alexander the Great, en route to Asian campaigns once went to him. Diogenes advised him to renounce conquest; however, Alexander declined, with "resignation", believing his destiny already written. 32. Antisthenes (444-365 BC), an Athenian, was the founder of... intoxicated was said to possess special knowledge and the powers of prophesy. Plato, Symposium Aristotle (384-322 BC), was a greek philosopher, a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government and ethics.Along with Socrates and Plato, he is considered... their leaders, and finally they fought their way home. Xenophon's record of his entire expedition the battle as well as the return journey homewards is called Anabasis — a text which was used by Alexander the Great as a field guide during his expeditions in Persia. On his return, Xenophon was exiled from Athens because he fought under a Spartan king against Athens and also because of his association ...
... recall here the case of Alexander Pope, the 18th century classic. Here is the narration in the words of Amal Kiran: "From his very childhood he [Alexander Pope] made poems. He has autobiographically written: I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. But his father was extremely displeased with this waste of time as he considered it, and so he took little Alexander to task rather severely... severely. He often scolded him and once put him across his knees and administered a good whacking. Poor Alexander cried and cried, and promised his father he would not indulge in that waste of time. But the promise he sobbed out ran: Papa, Papa, pity take! I will no more verses make." 2 So a born poet uses the medium of poetry to promise that he Page 200 would not make ...
... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II The Teacher of Alexander Diogenes was not the teacher of Alexander. They only met once. The teacher of Alexander was the philosopher Aristotle. Sri Aurobindo ...
... of a born poet may be given from an incident in the life of Alexander Pope, the 18th century classic. From his very childhood he made poems. He has autobiographically written: I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. But his father was extremely displeased with this waste of time as he considered it, and so he took little Alexander to task rather severely. He often scolded him and once put... put him across his knees and administered a good whacking. Poor Alexander cried and cried, and promised his father he would not indulge in that waste of time. But the promise he sobbed out ran: Papa, Papa, pity take! I will no more verses make. Now we have come to the subject proper that has been in my mind. It is whether verses are at all worth making. Poetry consists, as you know, of words ...
... day." 19 Only his constant search for new frontiers can explain his decision to enter the service of the ruthless commander-in-chief of the Papal Army, Cesare Borgia, son of the notorious Pope Alexander VI. 20 Borgia was entrusted with the mission of gaining control of central Italy, and Leonardo stayed with him as his "military engineer" for almost one year. Besides military advice, he supplied... Trattato della Pittura; cf. IrmaA. Richter, op. cit., p. 4. 19. Vasari as quoted by Irma A. Richter, op. cit., p. 341f. 20. The Spanish Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503) became Pope Alexander VI in 1492. Indulging in orgies and crime he is often regarded as the personification of the declining moral standards of the Vatican during the Renaissance. His son Cesare (1475-1507) and his daughter... (The Prince). 21. Cf. Will Durant, op. cit., p. 222. 22. Giovani di Medici acquired Papal authority in 1503 and tried to consolidate the Vatican after the devastating rulership of Pope Alexander VI. Bramante (1444-1514), the architect of St. Peter's Bassilica, Michaelangelo (1475-1564) the sculptor, and Raphael (1483-1520) the painter were among the artists who found generous employment ...
... political history of India History has shown that India had been subject to invasions right from the 3rd century BC. Starting with the invasion by the organized Persian Empire and then by Alexander in the pre-Christian eras, it was followed by a series of invasions till the advent of the Muslims. The Muslim invasion was followed by the British invasion and conquest till the year 1947. ... invasion and all these invasions came from the passes of the North West. The first invasion that took place was that of the Persian Empire and it was soon followed by the invasion of the Greeks led by Alexander. The reasons of this weakness One of the reasons for the historic weakness of the Indian peninsula and its being prone to repeated invasions was its vulnerability through... trans-Indus countries, ceasing to be part of India, ceased also to serve as her protection. Instead, they became the secure base for every successive invader. The inroads made by Alexander brought home the magnitude of the danger to the political mind of India and as a consequence, from this time onward, we see poets, writers and political thinkers constantly upholding the imperial ...
... nothing but the same single reality, only in different Page 55 forms. Others, who are more or less idealists, Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, for example (some of them call themselves neo-realists, however), would not view the phenomenon in the same way. Alexander says that Matter and Life and Mind are very different from each other; they are truly emergents, that is to say, novelties; but... quagmire. :But in this connection we are faced with a problem which Morgan had the happy intuition to seize and to bring forward. It is our purpose to draw attention to this matter. Professor Alexander spoke of the emergence of deities who would embody emergent properties other than those manifest in the Mind of man. Morgan asks whether there is not also a Deity – or the Deity – in the making ...
... Matter, are nothing but the same single reality, only in different forms. Others, who are more or less idealists, Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, for example (some Page 65 of them call themselves neo-realists, however), would not view the phenomenon in the same way. Alexander says that Matter and Life and Mind are very different from each other; they are truly emergents, that is to say,... quagmire. But in this connection we are faced with a problem which Morgan had the happy intuition to seize and to bring forward. It is our purpose to draw attention to this matter. Professor Alexander spoke of the emergence of deities who would embody emergent properties other than those manifest in the Mind of man. Morgan asks whether there is not also a Deity—or the Deity—in the making. He ...
... more necessary than that mauna be changed to mavana; if Yavana be earlier & Yauna a Pracrit corruption, how are we to account for the short a & the v; there was no digamma in Greek in the time of Alexander. But since the Greeks are always called Page 343 Yavanas in Buddhist writings we will waive the demand for strict philological intelligibility and suppose that Yavana answers to 'Iάων... or Macedonians? That the Persians should know the Greeks by that name is natural enough, for it was with the Ionians that they first came in contact; but it was not Ionians who invaded India under Alexander, it was not an Ionian prince who gave his daughter to Chundragupta, it was not an Ionian conqueror who crossed the Indus & besieged [ ]. Did the Macedonians on their victorious march give themselves ...
... so, curtained off from the rest of the room. A small story — to better know what it takes to be contented. Alexander the Great, conqueror of half the known world, found the world too small. Diogenes, his contemporary and an ascetic philosopher, lived in a bath-tub and found it enough. Alexander once went to visit Diogenes. He stood in front of the tub and asked Diogenes if he needed anything. The old ...
... six centuries in the past, Sethna proposes that the Guptas referred to in the Puranas are the descendants of that Chandragupta whom Megasthenes refers to as Sandrocottus, contemporaneous with Alexander. Consequently, the Mauryan Chandragupta and his grandson Asoka needs must recede considerably farther into the past. The rest of the book is a thrilling venture as Sethna daringly ... Sandrocottus-Chandragupta-I whose term for the invading Greeks is shown to be "Vahlika" (outsiders from Bactria) which fills in the puzzling gap in Indian records of mention of the incursions by Alexander and Seleucus. It is the founder of the Guptas and not of the Mauryan Dynasty who stands firmly identified as Megastheness Sandrocottus. Sethna provides an extremely valuable Supplement ...
... us know the truth. Among your other and non-poetic incarnations, some surmise Alexander and Julius Caesar. "Good Heavens, all that! You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am unconscious of Dante and ...
... executive thinkers, great practical dreamers. Such were Napoleon and Alexander. Napoleon with his violent prejudice against ideologues and dreamers was himself a colossal dreamer, an incurable if unconscious ideologist; his teeming brain was the cause of his gigantic force and accomplishment. The immense if shapeless ideas of Alexander threw themselves into the form of conquests, cities, cultures; they ...
... separation from the queen Sītā!" etc. 36.Cf. C.R. Devadhar (ed.), Raghuvamśa of Kālidāsa, MLBD, Delhi, 2005, XV, Note 81, p.688. 37.Soren Kierkegaard, The Present Age, translated by Alexander Dru and Walter Lowrie, Oxford University Press, 1962. For the English translation, I have profusely taken the help of C.R. Devadhar (ed.), Raghuvamśa of Kālidāsa, MLBD, 2005. Page 103... Value-oriented Education by Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER), Auroville Parvati's Tapasya Nala and Damayanti The Siege of Troy Alexander the Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas ...
... and receive admiration from Europe, even from the whole world? Sri Aurobindo calls it his asuric māyā that cast a spell upon the nations to such an extent that he was considered superior even to Alexander and Napoleon! Sri Aurobindo tore the veil from the face of that deception and showed us the dire truth. History has no parallel of a maniac using all kinds of falsehood, hypocrisy, perversity to capture... happen in India. Perhaps he will say that the Poles have no love in their heart for the Germans." When half the world was dazzled by the glamour of Hitler's victory and considered him greater than Alexander and Napoleon, when others were groaning under the iron wheels of his war-machine, and still others hoped to change his heart by non-violence, Sri Aurobindo's vision of Hitler never wavered for a moment ...
... Bergson: Thinking Backwards, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. " Vide., Peel, J.D.Y, Herbert Spencer, The Evolution of a Sociologist, Heinemann, London, 1971. 12 Vide., Alexander, S., Space, Time and Deity, Macmillan, London, Paperback edition, 1966. 13 Vide., Teilhard de Chardin, P, Le Phenomene Humaine, Editions de Seuil, Paris, 1955: Translation by B.wall, The... Good Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati’s Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas ...
... Voices of the Stones (Macmilian, London, 1925). The House of the Titans (Macmillan, London, 1934). Aiyangar, Narayan. Essays on Indo-Aryan Mythology (Bangalore, 1898). Alexander,S. Space, Time and Deity, Vols. I &I1 (Macmillan, London, 1927). Alvarez,A. The Shaping Spirit : Studies in Modern English and American Poets (Chatto & Windus, London, 1958). ... Press, Oxford, 1912). Knight, G. Wilson. The Crown of Life : Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays (Methuen, London, 1958). Laureate of Peace : on the Genius of Alexander Pope (Roudedge, London, 1954). Kurtz, Benjamin P. The Pursuit of Death (Oxford University Press, London, 1933). Lai, P. & K. Raghavendra RAO. Modern Indo-Anglian Poetry ...
... Bremond 316 Abercrombie, Lascelles 283,375,409,445 A.E. (George Russell) 266,306 Aeschylus 267 53,318,319,458 Aiyangar, Narayan 279 Alexander, Samuel 436 Anouilh, Jean 267 Ariosto31,383 Arnold, Sir Edwin 335 Arnold, Matthew 292,311,312,412 Arya 14 , 15,31,328,359,416 Atkinson... Pinto, Vivian de Sola 344 Piper, Ravmond Frank 373 Plato 33,271 Plotinus33,326 Page 495 Pope, Alexander 33, 78,315,341,346,355, 410 Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398, 402,414,447,460,461 Prince of Edur 47,51,52 Prothero, G.M. 7 Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, 371 ...
... various levels and gradations of consciousness which comprise the cosmos. Samuel Alexander says that, "within the all-embracing stuff of Space-Time, the universe exhibits an emergence in Time of successive levels of finite existences, each with its characteristic empirical quality." 137 Man to Deity is, according to Alexander, the next spurt in evolution, but he too doesn't relate the idea of evolution ...
... to the Hindu is the Greek; from Greece Europe derives the beginnings of her civilization in almost all its parts; and especially in poetry, art and philosophy. And there was the alluring fact that Alexander of Macedon had entered India and the Bactrians established a kingdom on the banks of the Indus before the time of the earliest extant Hindu play. To the European mind the temptation to build upon ...
... some of them who hold themselves back, suppress the force in their personality in order to put it wholly into their work. Of such were Shakespeare, Washington, Victor Emmanuel. There are others like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, who are as obviously superhuman in their personality as in the work they accomplish. Napoleon was the greatest in practical capacity of all moderns. In capacity, though ...
... his successor a man with the talent or the genius for organisation rather than an impetus for expansion. A Caesar followed by an Augustus meant a work of massive durability; a Philip followed by an Alexander an achievement of great importance to the world by its results, but in itself a mere splendour of short-lived brilliance. Rome, to whom careful Nature denied any man of commanding genius Page ...
... into the huge bureaucratic empires of the Gupta and the Maurya to which the Pathan, the Moghul and the Englishman succeeded, in the West into the vast military and commercial expansions achieved by Alexander, by the Carthaginian oligarchy and by the Roman republic and empire. The latter were not national but supranational unities, premature attempts at too large unifications of mankind that could not ...
... thing—lines of Force. In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up—e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghiz-Tamerlane-Napoleon—meeting together there—so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and Page 546 diverging. Yours ...
... either for its introduction or, if introduced,—as, no doubt, Lord Morley will have some slight respect even yet for his own reputation,—for its retention in the future. What is to prevent a future Alexander Mackenzie in the Viceregal seat from so altering any measure that may be given as to render it nugatory and what is to prevent a future Curzon in the India Office from confirming this step rearwards ...
... torture and death in order that Christ's kingdom might come on earth & felicity possess the nations. But the kingdom that came was not Christ's; it was Constantine's, it was Hildebrand's, it was Alexander Borgia's. For another thirteen centuries the message was—what? Has it not been the chief support of fanaticism, falsehood, cruelty and hypocrisy, the purveyor of selfish power, the keystone of a society ...
... of Buddhism, Theosophy, Vedantism, Bahaism and other Oriental influences in both Europe and America. On the other hand, there have been two reactions of Europe upon Asia; first, the invasion of Alexander with his aggressive Hellenism which for a time held Western Asia, created echoes and reactions in India and returned through Islamic culture upon mediaeval Europe; secondly, the modern onslaught of ...
... creative evolution opposes both the mechanistic theory of Darwin and also the ideological theory of Lamarck. Bergson posits a life-force which goes on creating ever new forms. Loyd Morgan and Alexander developed the theory of emergent evolution, which provides for the emergence of a new quality in the process of evolution. Hegel developed the metaphysical theory of evolution and used the dialectic ...
... related to "polein" - to make - and to the old Scots expression "maker". All these are unlike the Provencal "trobator", North French "Trouvere" and Italian "tobatore", which come from a "find" root. Alexander considers all these vocables to in-dicate "more modest aspiration". But I am not sure. One might well read in the other terms an emphasis on the mere art aspect, working from outside on a pre-existent ...
... murders’. And many other contemporary observers have tried to describe the sensually charged liquescence of these demonstrations in the language of diabolism.” (Joachim Fest 892) The historian Karl Alexander von Müller had been one of the lecturers when candidate army propagandist Corporal Adolf Hitler attended the initiatory course at Munich University in 1919. He had followed Hitler’s rise and sometimes ...
... or beast … Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey of all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl’d; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! (Alexander Pope, 1688-1744) The human, seen not only as his material body but in the total composition of his being, is a “microcosm,” thus called of old by people who seemed to know. The evolutionary layers ...
... can be deduced from some of the titles he would refer to in later years: Darwin’s just published account of his voyage on the Beagle , Thomas Malthus’ Essay on the Principle of Population , and Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, “the first book that gave me the desire to visit the tropics.” The two last works played an important ...
... called the ‘three-penny romances’ often woven around it, the cheap and for the most part totally imaginary romanticization of putative former lives. How many reincarnations of Cleopatra, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, or of some mysterious Egyptian, Babylonian or Celtic priests or priestesses have dwelt unnoticed among ordinary mortals! Sri Aurobindo warned his disciples: ‘Seriously, these historical ...
... became wise and knowing and strong as he is now. Of his first souls he has now no remembrance, And he will be again changed from his present soul … 34 In the Western “Age of Reason,” Alexander Pope wrote in his famous Essay on Man (1733): He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast … Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord ...
... Divinity. This is the distinction we can gather from the Gita which is the main authority on this subject.” 4 Among the Vibhutis may be counted: Veda Vyasa, Hatshepsut, Moses, Pericles, Socrates, Alexander, Confucius, Lao Tse, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and undoubtedly many more in all times and climes. All ...
... recent period of rationalistic materialism had based itself lost the greater part of their substance. But more bewilderment was to follow to the utter dismay of the mathematical physicists. Alexander B. Gibson, speaking of the metaphysician's dilemma before the problem of reality, humorously remarked: "it is enough to make a man take to geometry. Triangles do not hit back." But he was a bit indulgent ...
... ruffled or elated by whatever happens but being "equal" to all vicissitudes is not to lose one's sense of the shades of things. When the self in us - the Purusha - stands back and watches somewhat like Alexander Pope's God Who sees, with equal eyes as lord of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, we need not, by giving up personal reactions, give up noting the distinction between a hero and a ...
... of mind by a constant poise and an opening to "inspiration". I don't know any specific books to recommend. One important study would be of how the minds of the great soldiers of history - from Alexander to MacArthur - worked. But possibly the main help would come from the sharpening and "poising" of your own mental faculty. Have I been of any help to you by all the above remarks? Maybe some little ...
... periods - 12 years, 24, 36 and finally the extreme I have mentioned. I remember reading in the Indica of Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to the court of the Indian king whom the historians of Alexander the Great called "Sandrocottus" (= Chandragupta), that the age of marriage for the Brahmins was 37. Evidently, around 300 B.C., this was the extreme. In the most ancient India it went still beyond ...
... perfect expressive vehicle for the charge of the spirit. His was not a "dim religious tight" in a Gothic cathedral, but a solar orb of golden mass spreading its radiance in the wideness of heaven. Alexander Pope's "there is a majesty and harmony in the Greek language, which greatly contribute to elevate and support the narration" is even more true for the ancient writers of India who used Sanskrit ...
... forward by Darwin in the modern times although the Upanishads speak of evolution and there was also the original Vedic idea of evolution. He also referred to the modern thinkers like Bergson, Samuel Alexander, Smutts and Whitehead. He also referred to Tiellhard de Chardin. He said that while there are many theories of evolution, the question is to find out certain crucial facts which will enable us to ...
... Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati 's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan ...
... first Page 52 imperial kingdom of India under the leadership of Chandragupta Maurya and his teacher and prime minister, Chanakya, came to be built up under the shock of the invasion of Alexander, the Great. Hinduism and Buddhism clashed and clasped each other, resulting in confusion and yet enrichment, impelling wider understanding and mutual assimilation. There came about hardening of certain ...
... Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa Svapna Vasavadattam The Siege of Troy Gods & the World Homer and the Iliad -Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Socrates Alexander the Great The Crucifixion Joan of Arc Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Arguments for the Existence of God Marie Sklodowska Curie ...
... Good Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas ...
... between Christ, and the founders of empires and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and any other religion the distance of infinity . . . Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires. But upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men ...
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... retreated, fighting step by step, toward the bridge, we pressing their despairing forces and cutting them Page 81 down by scores. Arrived on the bridge, the slaughter still continued. Alexander de la Pole was pushed overboard or fell over, and was drowned. Eleven hundred men had fallen; John de la Pole decided to give up the struggle. But he was nearly as proud and particular as his brother ...
... dressed in a red robe. 3. The colour of the robe is somewhat like that of a red rose. 4. Rose is not an indigenous flower of India. 5. Rose was introduced into the country by the foreign invaders. 6. Alexander the Great was the first invader of India. 7. Alexander's Master was Aristotle; Aristotle's Master was Plato, and Plato learnt at the feet of Socrates. 8. Socrates had to drink hemlock and die. ...
... unadulterated satire. Dignified political satire was carried to perfection in Dryden's Absolm and Achitophel. The Horatian style reached its perfection in France in the satirical writings of Boileau. Alexander Pope in England showed great progress along the line. We should not forget either the names of Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift. The 18th century was indeed the age of satire. Voltaire was really ...
... Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Taittiriya Upanishad Sri Krishna in ...
... × Manu was the original law-giver. He is also called "the father of man". Chanakya, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, codified the political laws of kings. × Tathāstu : so be it. ...
... ideal of Europe. When the famous novelist Balzac used to sit down to write he would do so in a lonely place in a monk's tunic in order to help his one-pointed concentration. Napoleon, Caesar and Alexander were no Page 312 helpless slaves of their senses. In fact, no country or race can build its greatness except on the foundation of self-control. It is not that self-control must ...
... then, it may be asked, how is it that in the history of the world we find men of action, great dynamic personalities to be mostly not spiritual but rather mundane in their character and outlook? Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Chandragupta, Akbar, even Shivaji, were not spiritual personalities; their actions were of the world and of worldly nature. And the force they wielded cannot be described as spiritual ...
... represent the whole meaning of evolution. On the other hand, if we accept that the proper evolutionary course is that of the peak figures of earthly consciousness – Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Alexander the Great, Dante – we are still forced to acknowledge that none of these great men has been able to transform life. Thus, the summits of the mind or the heart do not give us, any more than the cosmic ...
... 221 20. Ibid., p. 117 21. Ibid., p. 121 22. Ibid., p. 124 23. Ibid., p. 174 24. Ibid., p. 186 25. Ibid., p. 202 26. Alexander Pope, Art Essay on Maw Book II 27. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 217 28. Ibid., p. 249, 250 29. Ibid., p. 269 30. Ibid., p. 270 31. V. Chandrasekharan ...
... Mahavira, Siddhartha, Christ, Muhammad, Sankara, Ramanuja, Nanak - punctuated the march of the human consciousness by precept and example. There were also heroic figures like Arjuna and Achilles and Alexander and Napoleon, and there were the great poets and artists, the great scientists and inventors, and the great statesmen and nation-builders, but now there is need for the invocation, or eruption, ...
... right quarters. Earlier, Attlee had succeeded Churchill as the British Prime Minister, and Wavell had become the new Viceroy of India. A Cabinet Mission consisting of Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence and Alexander came to India with the offer of a three-tier Constitution for Free India. In a message dated 24 March 1946, Sri Aurobindo explained how he had always stood for India's complete independence, how as ...
... present life, unwearied and undejected, he looks forward to pursuing his quest in lives to follow, for, he knows that the bonds of aeons cannot be cut asunder with the same rapidity and ease with which Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot. A relentless fight with his lower self, renewed from hour to hour, sustained through long years of unrelaxed vigilance and unremitting Page 387 labour ...
... making the Government of India accept his proposal and thus relieve the revenues of Bengal of an unnecessary superfluity. The policy of the Government seems to have undergone a sea-change. Even Sir Alexander Mackenzie protested against the Government of India appropriating the surpluses. Referring to the Quinquennial Contract he said, "The provincial sheep is thrown on its back and shorn of its wool, ...
... stammering, its secret sense that it is the Lord of the universe, yet must it deny & transform itself, if it is to effect its grandiose object. The mighty Asura, Hiranyakashipu or Ravana, Attila, Alexander, Napoleon or Jenghiz, reaching out to possess the whole world physically as the not-self, is the Godhead in man aiming at self-realisation, but a godhead blind and misdirected. The Seer seeks instead ...
... spirit and the conquering and widely organising capacity of the Roman republic; they were content to preserve their own free inner life and their independence. India especially after the invasion of Alexander felt the need of a movement of unification and the republics were factors of division: strong for themselves, they could do nothing for the organisation of the peninsula, too vast indeed for any system ...
... feeling of racial and cultural superiority to the barbarian much nearer to the Indian mind than a typical modern European. Not only could a Pythagoras or a philosopher of the Neo-platonist school, an Alexander or a Menander understand with a more ready sympathy the root ideas of Asiatic culture, but an average man of ability, a Megasthenes for instance, could be trusted to see and understand, though not ...
... by means of the fewest principles, correlates past observations and provides guidance for correctly predicting future ones. "The really important factor is ultimately intuition," said Einstein to Alexander Moszkowski. And Einstein believes also that if mathematical intuition is to be a discovery of truth, there must be a pre-established harmony between man's mind and the nature of the universe and ...
... , and many have been the golden moments when we have tossed to and fro some problem of scansion and, discussing the lines of the Supramental Avatar's compositions, gone most enjoyably against Alexander Pope's advice: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. I have been in close touch with him during his lucky days when he was not only ...
... perfect expressive vehicle for the charge of the spirit. His was not a "dim religious light" in a Gothic cathedral, but a solar orb of golden mass spreading its radiance in the wideness of heaven. Alexander Pope's "there is a majesty and harmony in the Greek language, which greatly contribute to elevate and support the narration" is even more true for the ancient writers of India who used Sanskrit as ...
... Dara There were two Emperors of Persia named Darius (Dara). The first was Darius Hystaspes, the greatest of his dynasty, and the other Darius Codomanus, the last of the line who was conquered by Alexander. It is the first whose name you bear. Sri Aurobindo [ST] Datta (The dedicated) Grandchild of Rassendren The Mother [ST] Datā (The dedicated) Grandchild of Rassendren The ...
... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Kishensingh Mother never said that Kishensingh was Alexander. Kekoo [K.D.Sethna] must have made some confusion in his mind about this. There is no truth in this identification. January 1929 Sri Aurobindo ...
... Lamarck’s theory of evolution. Darwin talked with any expert he met and read anything about nature he could lay his hands on. He recalls in his Autobiography how inspired he was by the narrative of Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist and explorer, about his discoveries in Central and South America. There was a sea-change taking place in Britain’s 19th century. The Enlightenment is generally ...
... much more than documented highbrow journalism. And therefore ‘objective’ historians sometimes write such ‘reasonable’ but inane psychological dissections of personalities like Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and of ancient cultures — in brief, of everything that really mattered on the wearisome and tortuous road of the human pilgrimage. The norms of rationalistic historical writing ...
... 34 In the case of the Mother it was no longer a by yoga liberated soul but a liberated body which was directly working from its matter onto Matter everywhere. A World under Construction Alexander Dubcek and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Jan Palach immolating himself, the students of Nanterre, the war in Vietnam and its repercussions in the USA, Kent University, the foundation of ...
... discoveries, and certainly the important ones, are the consequence of a sudden illumination. The same conclusion could be drawn from the history of biological and technological research. The way Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin will readily come to mind, but Royston Roberts has filled a volume with “accidental discoveries in science” and called it Serendipity . Scientism attacks with disdain ...
... in the pan. One should not forget, however, that the ‘Prague Spring’ was also an aspect of this worldwide movement. The way this first effort towards ‘a socialism with a human face,’ initiated by Alexander Dubcek in Prague, was rudely suppressed by troops of the Warsaw Pact, is still alive in the memory of many. In general it may be considered that the events of 1968, though by themselves short-lived ...
... beyond the first century B.C. for Kalidasa, we would have to entertain the theory sometimes submitted that the Indian adventurer named by the Greek historians Sandrocottus, who was a contemporary of Alexander the Great and flourished as a king in the immediate post-Alexandrine epoch was not Chandragupta Maurya but Chandragupta I, founder of the Imperial Gupta dynasty. Then Chandragupta II Vikramaditya ...
... participants in a “oratory course” for army propagandists, to be held at Munich University from 5 till 12 June 1919. The teachers of the course were learned doctors and professor-doctors like Karl Alexander von Müller, Karl von Bothmer and Michael Horlacher. Their themes were “the political history of the war”; “Socialism in theory and practice”; “our agricultural situation and the peace conditions”; ...
... worn out stray dog looking for a master” 15 – words he would come to regret. The Russian Revolution had been a two-phase event: in February 1917 the socialist, humane Menshevik revolution with Alexander Kerensky as its leader; in October of the same year the Marxist, ruthless, Bolshevik takeover led by Lenin. A similar evolvement was tried out in Berlin, where the radical Spartacists led by Karl ...
... life of men, so necessarily they bring that atmosphere. Saratchandra is a highly emotional writer with a great power of presenting the feelings and movements of the human vital. 13 March 1936 Alexander Dumas Dumas' "history" is all slap and dash adventure—amusing, rather than solidly interesting. But it is all the history known to many people in France—just as many in England gather their history ...
... is Brahman. In Brahman our evolution finds its vast end and repose. VII. The Meaning of Renunciation The Karmayogin therefore will abandon the world that he may enjoy; he will not seek, as Alexander did, to possess the whole world with a material lordship, but, as Gods do, to possess it in his soul. He will lose himself in his own limited being, that he may find himself illimitably in the being ...
... alone can effect a transformation of the Vibhuti [ p. 35 ]. I would like to know the difference. Take for example, Christ, Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, Confucius, Zarathustra, Buddha, Shankara, Mohammed, Alexander, Napoleon—among these well-known figures which are Vibhutis of the Mother and which are Vibhutis of the Ishwara? And what about the Mother's action in Avataras like Rama and Krishna? The Mother's ...
... alone can effect a transformation of the Vibhuti [p. 16]. I would like to know the difference. Take for example Christ, Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, Confucius, Zarathustra, Buddha, Shankara, Mohammed, Alexander, Napoleon—among these well-known figures, which are Vibhutis of the Mother and which are Vibhutis of the Ishwara? And what about the Mother's action in Avatars like Rama and Krishna? The Mother's ...
... 252 Man conquers by knowledge. And he conquers knowledge: he asks and asks again and again, and perseveres until he really knows. Some men of whom history tells are known as conquerors: Alexander the Great who conquered Western Asia and Egypt, Julius Caesar who conquered France and England, the emperor Baber who conquered the North of India, Napoleon who became for a time the master of Europe ...
... Lines of Force. In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up — e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghis-Tamerlane-Napoleon — meeting together there — so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and diverging. Yours seems to be a ...
... are doing or where they are going. And yet the tragedy is already sealed in this little gesture, that careless action, those few fleeting words. Was the Trojan War not taking place "every day"? Did Alexander not die on "one fine day"? Destiny seizes upon a few beings and abruptly crystallizes a great moment in History, but the players are neither "cruel" nor "gentle"—they are much like everyday people ...
... said that Homer needs an English master of expression and technique to do him justice. You can see for yourself what a world of contrast is there between Sri Aurobindo's rendering of that line and Alexander Pope's in the eighteenth-century pentameter: Silent he wander'd by the sounding main. Not that Pope's line is a pure "flop": he has tried to get something Page 374 of the ...
... of arms and was intensely influenced by the Napoleonic fury. Not only did he start in 1941 his campaign against Russia in the name of Napoleon and on the very day Napoleon had marched against Tsar Alexander I; he also fixed in 1940 the 15th of August as the day on which he would complete his conquest of Western Europe by broadcasting from Buckingham Palace the collapse of Britain. The fall of Britain ...
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... lost traces of their own past, European explorers had to re establish the links forged centuries before by their ancestors. They had forgotten the contact established with India by the Greek King, Alexander the Great, during the fourth century BC; the settlements established in southern India by the Romans during the first century AD, and then by early Christians; and the opening of the Silk Roads, which ...
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... leaven and Notes. * * * Page 129 Other titles in the Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Series Parvati's Tapasya Nala and Damayanti The Siege of Troy Alexander the Great Homer and the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men —Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc Page 130 ...
... only think of Milton, who was Page 464 blind, Beethoven, who became deaf, or Lord Nelson, who, mutilated by wounds, had to fight pain all his life. Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, Alexander the Great was a drunkard, and Nietzsche died insane. Gibbon had a famous hydrocele, Marat suffered frightfully from a skin disease, and Charles V had gout, arteriosclerosis, and dropsy. Many eminent ...
... The Rajputs, of course, didn't know what unity was. Europe is now inheriting. The ancient peoples also didn't know how to achieve the malady unity. Porus, after being defeated, allied himself with Alexander and fought against his own countrymen. In Europe also the same thing happened during the Middle Ages, and continued even up to the early part of the reign of Louis XIV. Some provinces of France ...
... crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; they are rather organisers. Page 207 A Buddha, a Christ or a Mohammed or even a Napoleon or Caesar or Alexander are truly creators: they bring with them something – some truth, some dynamic revelation – that was not there before. They realise and embody each a particular principle of being, a unique mode of ...
... (George Russell), 45, 152,195,275 Adwaita, 139 Aesop, 97 Africa, 56, 101 Agastya, 281 Agni, 9, 247 Ajanta, 136, 179 Akbar, 93, 394 Alexander, 208, 394 Allies, the, 75, 88, 89 America, 56, 72, 81, 87, 89, 91, 103-4, 111, 119, 209 Amitabha, 273 Anarchism, 112 Anaxagoras, 326 Angst, 377 ...
... will-force, of purity of character and of the powers of the soul and the spirit. What is called a vital personality or rajasic personality can very well be illustrated by studying character like say, Alexander, since his psychology was like quicksilver; pursued as you may, he always wanted to be one step ahead. The bursting life-force in him was overwhelming, ready to listen all the time to the call of ...
... Ramayana and Mahabharata (iv) Vasistha, Vishwamtira, Lopamudra, Yajnavalkya, Maitreyi Part II (i) Buddha and Mahavira (ii) Buddhism and Jainism (iii) Invasion of Alexander the Great (iv) Chandragupta Maurya (v) Ashoka III (i) Kushans and Kanishka (ii) Chandragupta, Samundragupta and Vikramaditya (iii) Gupta Period: the Golden ...
... deeper and higher domains. The evolutionary study of humanity has its origin in our times in the Darwinian theory, but it has found developments in the writings of philosophers like Bergson, Alexander, Smutts, Whitehead and Teillard de Chardin. But the most elaborate and comprehensive study is to be found in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, particularly, in his The Life Divine, The Synthesis of ...
... critical stage. Sri Aurobindo had made a detailed study of human history as also of the evolutionary processes, and not only as we find them in the light of modern theories of Darwin, Bergson, Samuel Alexander, Whitehead, Teilhard de Chardin and others but more importantly in the light of Indian knowledge of spiritual forces working behind the external developments of forms that emerge through the evolutionary ...
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... Alexander the great Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Preface The task of preparing teaching-learning material for value oriented education is enormous. There is, first, the idea that value-oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive, and that the teaching learning material should provide to the learners a growing experience of ...
... Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati’s Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas ...
... Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga Index āde ś a 12 Advaita 5 after-images 6 Alexander, Samuel 25 ā nanda 23 apar ā prakriti 15 Ā rya 3 ā sana 26 . Bhagavadgīt ā (Git ā ) 9, 21, 45, 47, 48,90,91, 101 Bhagavad shakti 75; see also shakti bhakti 21 Bhakti Yoga ...
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... Catherine the Great Catherine II (Painting of Russian School, copy after Alexander Roslin) II Reform of the Law Although Catherine did not hesitate to follow self-interest in foreign relations, she took an idealistic view of her domestic problems. She turned from Machiavelli¹ to Montesquieu². When she thought of Courland and Poland she pictured ...
... and Damayanti •Episodes from Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa •The Siege of Troy •Homer and the Iliad-Sri Aurobindo and Ilion •Gods and the World •Socrates •Crucifixion •Alexander the Great •Joan of Arc •Catherine the Great •Uniting Men-Jean Monnet •Arguments for the Existence of God •Marie Sklodowska Curie ...
... Damayanti •Episodes from Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa •The Siege of Troy •Homer and the Iliad-Sri Aurobindo and Ilion •Gods and the World •Socrates •Crucifixion •Alexander the Great m •Joan of Arc •Catherine the Great •Uniting Men-Jean Monnet •Arguments for the Existence of God •Marie Sklodowska Curie Page 39 ...
... Agastya, 10 Age, Purano-tantric, 84 Age, Vedic, 50 Agni,6,7,8,9,13,64,65,66 Agnosticism, 61 Ahimsa, 33 Ajata Shatru, 18 Akbar, 84 Akshara, 22 Alexander, 84 Amritam, 12, 22 Angirasas, 13,14,15,63 Angirasas, legend of, 64 Animism, 2, 3, 57 Apala, 31 Aranyakas,66,87,89 Architecture, 56 Art, 31,56 Artha ...
... the most eminent persons of the day. Poets and writers like John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mark Twain had but to come in contact with this radiant soul to fall in love with her. Alexander Graham Bell was from the first a guiding light in her life, watching her progress with infinite interest. Until the age of ten Helen could communicate only with the sign language of the deaf-mute ...
... will take hold of the human race Page 133. Other titles in the Illumination and Harmony series Parvati's Tapasya Nala and Damayanti The siege Of Troy Alexander the great Homer and the Iliad- Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Joan of Arc The crucifixion Gods and the World Printed at Auroville Press Auroville ...
... epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; they are rather organisers. A Page 97 Buddha, a Christ or a Mohammed or even a Napoleon or Caesar or Alexander are truly creators: they bring with them something—some truth, some dynamic revelation—that was not there before. They realise and embody each a particular principle of being, a unique mode of co ...
... brought religion down to the level of the mundane and is about to lose it there, while the East has pushed religion up and is at last on the verge of losing the world in the Brahman or the Void. Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon are the ideal men of action in the West, while Krishna, Arjuna and Bhishma are the representatives 'of the ideal of the East. The European heroes display daemoniac restlessness ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 Index Aditi, 46 Africa, 272, 323 Agni,44, 52, 120, 151 Ahriman, 46, 110 Ahura Mazda, 46 Alexander, 56-7 Allies, the, 66 America, 133,214,421 Aniruddha, 44, 207-8 Apollo, 47 Ardhanarishwara, 84 Arjuna,9, 14,76-8,93, 112n., 116, 161 Arnold, Matthew, 92, 119 Aryaman, 208 ...
... struggle for existence and survival of the fittest is still surviving, powerful trends have emerged to challenge it through theories such as those of Vitalism of Bergson , Emergent Evolution of Alexander, Holism of Smutts, Ingressive Idealism of Whitehead, and Spiritual Evolution of Teillard De Chardin. In India, Sri Aurobindo's theory of Supramental Evolution is a formidable answer to Darwinism ...
... Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates ...
... Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas ...
... or drive of ingression of higher powers of consciousness will continue to liberate corresponding powers imprisoned in man. Flying on the wings of speculation of leading philosophers like Bergson, Alexander and Whitehead, we also see scientists releasing tremendous Page 116 packets of energies from the atom and grappling with the biological cell to release from it secrets of immortality; ...
... or drive of ingression of higher powers of consciousness will continue to liberate corresponding powers imprisoned in man. Flying on the wings of speculation of leading philosophers like Bergson, Alexander and Whitehead, we also see scientists releasing tremendous packets of energies from the atom and grappling with the biological cell to release from it secrets of immortality; and we begin to wonder ...
... monarchy, and the first imperial kingdom of India under the leadership of Chandragupta Maurya and his teacher and prime minister, Chanakya, came to be built up under the shock of the invasion of Alexander, the Great. Hinduism and Buddhism clashed and clasped each other resulting in confusion and yet enrichment impelling wider understanding and mutual assimilation There came about hardening of certain ...
... the birth of the Buddha to the fall of the Mauryan empire. This covers the period from 560 B.C. to 200 B.C. This period witnesses the remarkable life and work of the Buddha, the invasion of Alexander the great, the establishment of the Mauryan empire under the lead of Chandragupta Maurya and his adviser, Kautilya (or Chanakya), the life and work of Ashoka, who provided royal sanction to Buddhism ...
... Good Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Gods and the World Crucifixion Uniting Men - Jean Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the lliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas ...
... be no emergence.'4 IlI It is significant that the modern trend in the theories of evolution is to stress the possibility of the emergence of newer and better terms of existence. Samuel Alexander speaks of the emergence of the Deity as the promise of the future; Whitehead speaks of the 'ingression' of the Godhead in evolution and of the God in the making. A French anthropologist and pa ...
... you ever heard the violin before?" I said: "Yes, Mother, my grandfather Saratchandra Bhattacharya used to play the violin very well. The Nawab of Murshidabad had a Goanese bandmaster named Alexander. My grandfather learnt to play from him. I heard him play when I was young." Page 11 (13) I had just arrived in the Ashram, I was very young then and one day I remember telling ...
... of the subjectively-evolved entity, individuality. Secondly, there is a compulsion of the individual to fuse with others—a mutuality, the necessity of association. It is expressed poetically by Alexander Selkirk in his poem "Solitude". The poet is stranded and alone on an isolated island in the Ocean: I am the monarch of all I survey My right there is none to dispute. ...
... Untermeyer, Modern American Poetry, p. 336. 51. The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, p. 377. 52. The contrast between Hamlet, father and son, has been brilliantly brought out by Peter Alexander in his Northcliffe Lectures on this subject. 53. C. Day Lewis, The Aeneid of Virgil, p. 137 54. The English Epic, p. 83. 55. TheSewaneeReview,Summer 1954,pp. 426-7 ...
... predicament when man has reached the mental stage of his evolutionary career is "an interregnum in Reality", a mid-region, shall we say, between the dusk that has gone and the flame that is to come. In Alexander Pope's words, man finds himself at the fluid junction between two continents: Plac'd on this Isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: ...
... the stalemate in Hindu-Muslim relations, there had meanwhile been a change of Government in Britain, Attlee replacing Churchill; and a Cabinet Mission (comprising Pethick-Lawrence, Cripps and Alexander) came to India with proposals for a three-tier Constitution, and there hovered some hope that the unity of India would be somehow preserved. But communal riots started and raged, now here now there ...
... that one can become the great Energy of life and merge with the universal Dynamism (even though there is hardly any terrestrial example of this, except, perhaps, on a very small scale, Napoleon, Alexander or Genghis Khan). But corporeally, how can one little body become all bodies and enter all the miseries of the world without dying from it? How can it even physiologically broaden its cellular co ...
... long time ago, which is starting to get an answer? Page 199 Talking of this is very difficult because people immediately turn it into a soap opera, and they become the reincarnation of Alexander the Great or Charlemagne or... All that is utterly childish. We are the reincarnation of our hope. We are the reincarnation of our prayer. We have yearned a lot, hoped a lot, prayed for something ...
... were granted the right of unrestricted entry. And, as they have done everywhere else in the world with local populations, in India too they poured forth "venomous abuses against the Hindus." Rev. Alexander Duff said contemptuously: "Of all the systems of false religion ever fabricated by the perverse ingenuity of fallen man, Hinduism is surely the most stupendous." Or did he mean Christianity? Was he ...
... relates to the period of Alexander's invasion of India and the period immediately succeeding it, the time currently allotted to Chandragupta Maurya and to his grandson Asoka with his numerous informative inscriptions? Do we not have to tackle even Greek and Latin annals derived from the Indica of Magasthenes, the ambassador sent by Seleucus Nicator, one of Alexander's military heirs to the ... make their dating tally with the actual time of these kings the latter should have to be started not in 320 A.D., as now claimed but towards the end of the fourth century B.C., soon after Alexander's Indian adventure. But, of course, Asoka with his rock edicts seems as solidly established in chronology as they in topography against any theoretical reductio ad absurdum. How, without ...
... makes things delightfully easy to handle and saves an immense amount of worry of enquiry and labour of reflection, but, modified, it accompanies us to the higher levels of a more watchful mentality. Alexander's method with the fateful knot is our natural and favourite dealing with the tangled web of things, the easy cut, the royal way, the facile philosophy of this and not this, that and not that, a strong ...
... Page 184 The paradox that stumps one in studying Jewish history is that it presents a paradox that is the converse of what we find in Indian history. Our records have no mention of Alexander's invasion by which Western historians set such store in determining our chronology. On the other hand, although the Exodus is such a watershed for the Israelites, the Egyptian records are innocent ...
... pivot of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. What the Western philosophers and scientists, including Teilhard de Chardin, have missed is the fact of the involution. Whatever is involved can only evolve. Alexander's Deity, Teilhard's Omega point, Paul Tillich's New Being represent the crown of the evolutionary process. But the why, and also, to a great extent, the how of this process remain unknown, because ...
... and in vigorous functioning in the sixth century before Christ, contemporary therefore with the brilliant but ephemeral and troubled Greek city commonwealths". 48 After the traumatic effects of Alexander's conquest, there was the impulse towards the unification of the smaller political units, and the monarchical idea became the nucleus of the larger political formations. But till the arrival of the ...
... its implications - reminds me of the differing views I have come across on the subject of sati - wife burnt along with her dead husband. The immediate link is the rumour the Greek historians of Alexander's invasion of north-west India has left to us. There are two items. One is about the reported origin of the Sati-institution. Here the origin is traced to men trying to protect themselves. Poisoning ...
... Xerxes (h 26). In the Greek sources Herodotus (1,125) is the first to mention the people called Dáoi, as a nomadic tribe of the Persians. More accurate information on them, however, is delivered by Alexander's historians. According to Q. Curtius Rufus (8,3) and Ptolemy's Geography (6,10,2), the Dahas lived on the lower course of the river Margos (modern Murghab) or in the northern steppe area of Margiana... (administrative) province, district (of a province)'", 11 obviously turned by the Rigveda into a tribal designation. The Panis are to Parpola 12 the Párnoi said by Strabo (11,9,2), again one of Alexander's historians, to have belonged to the Da(h)as. They are reported to have lived previously in Margiana, from where they founded the Arsacid empire of Parthia. Parpola 13 elaborates: The Greek... Divodāsa against them in Arachosia. Support for this view he finds in the record of Divodāsa's conflicts with Brisaya and the Paravatas, with whose names he compares that of the Satrap Barsentes [of Alexander's time] and the people Paruetae of Gedrosia or Aria [in the same period]. Similarly he suggests that the Srinjaya people, who were connected like Divodāsa with the Bharadvāja family, should be located ...
... TALE OF TRUE HEROISM 46.THE MAN WITH AN AXE TO GRIND—from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography 47.SAANTANI, MANGARAAJ'S WIFE—from SIX ACRES & A HALF by Fakir Mohan Senapati 48.ALEXANDER'S COOK 59. HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED Page 503 50.BALBAN'S JUSTICE 51.THE MYSTERY OF THE TVVENTYFIVE JEWELS 52.THE THREE SURPRISES—Joan E. Cass 53.THAT INATTENTIVE ...
... true that Sri Aurobindo and Mr. Guruprasad [a Secretary of the S.A.S.] are equally divine. It is also true, on the supramental plane that everything is equal in the Divine, a grain of sand or Alexander's exploits; but on the material plane, it is not true that the coolie and an Einstein are worth the same. It is true on the supramental plane that everything is one and fraternal, but it is completely ...
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