Dr Bhandarkar : Sir Rama Krishna Gopal (1837-1925); educated at Ratnāgiri & Elphinstone College, Bombay (M.A., 1866): Dakshīna Fellow there & Dekkan College, Poona: Head-master of Hyderabad (Sind) & Ratnāgiri High Schools: Professor of Sanskrit & Oriental languages at Elphinstone College: Fellow Bombay Univ.: Educ. Dept. 1864-93: Vice-Chancellor 1893-5: Member Governor’s Legislative Council 1903-4: Fellow of Calcutta Univ., Royal Asiatic Societies of London & B’bay: German & American Oriental Societies: Asiatic Society Italy, Imperial Academy of Science St. Petersburg: Foreign Member of French Institute: delegate at International Congress of Orientalists at London & Vienna: Hon. Phil. Dr. Gottingen Univ., etc.: a leader of the enlightened religious movement of the Prārthanā Samāj founded by Justice Ranade: supported widow-remarriage & in politics was a moderate progressive. [Buckland] His conviction that if the British, “our rulers by Divine Providence” left India, “we Hindoos would immediately return to the old state of things, for we lack a national consciousness” reflected in his wearing English suits & shoes at home in his native land’s tropical climate, & zealous promotion of European Orientalists’ methods to the study of Sanskrit & Indian antiquities, earned him his knighthood at the Delhi Durbar held by Viceroy Hardinge in 1911.
... may be so; but speculation on this subject will remain a solemn farce, until it is taken up in a disinterested spirit. At present all our wise disquisitions proceed from unchastened sentiment. Dr. Bhandarkar is a violent social reformer and wants to throw odium upon Hindu society; Mr. Ranade's hobby is a Conservative Radicalism and the spirit moves him to churn the ocean of statistics in a sense more... prejudiced against Western Culture, traces all premature deaths to pleasure and wine-bibbing. Each starts from his own sensations, each builds his web of argument in the spirit of a sophist. To this Dr. Bhandarkar brings his moral ardour and grave eloquence, Mr. Remade his trained reason and distinguished talent, the religionist his prejudices and cold precepts. Widely as they differ, they have this in common ...
... the Tāmraparnīyas who are next mentioned were in South India. But in R.E. II Aśoka shows no geographical concern 1. Op. cit., p. 301, n. 2. 2. The Inscriptions of Atoka, edited by DR. Bhandarkar and Surendra Nath Majumdar (1920), p. 52. Page 265 and blandly brings in Amtiyoka and his associates, without any preparation, on the heels of "Tamraparnī" as if Amtiyoka... held any important position in that year. How are we then to explain the reference to him as a great ruler in the Mandasor record which does not even mention the name of the emperor Skanda-gupta? Dr. Bhandarkar has pointed out that 'as Indra is represented as being suspicious of Govinda-gupta's power, the latter seems to have been a supreme ruler'. This would mean that he had rebelled, either against ...
... book. But examinations and degrees are a minor episode in the history of a mind. An European writer has acutely observed that nothing which is worth knowing can be taught. That is a truth which Dr. Bhandarkar, when he can spare time from his Carlyle, might ponder over with profit. Not what a man learns, but what he observes for himself in life and literature is the formative agency in his existence ...
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