... not understand in the first place what is meant by the statement that "in Greek no difference is made between the dentals and the linguals and they are fused together." If it is meant that the Greek language possessed both dental and lingual sounds but expressed them by the same characters, I do not think this can be correct. The distribution of dentals and linguals in the various languages is one... tīmē to Sanskrit nouns of the type of dāsī . Surely this is an error. The writer has fallen into it because he was looking only at the Attic dialect, but the Attic is only one variation of the Greek language and it is misleading to study it by itself. As a matter of fact, this ā and this ē both represent the same original sound which must have been the feminine termination in ā ; only the Doric... although there are verbs compounded with prepositions. I am at a loss to understand how so sound a scholar can have come to make a statement so contrary to all the facts. The power of the Greek language to make compounds is one of its most notable characteristics and its rich though never intemperate use is one of the great beauties of the Greek poetical style. When the Romans came into contact ...
... the Vana Purva which represents Bhema as carrying his brothers & mother out of the flames; for the Page 342 former they say, must have been composed after the Indians had learned the Greek language & culture and the latter, it is to be assumed, before that interesting period. Now whether suranga was derived from the Greek σῦριγξ or not, I cannot take upon me to say, but will assume on the... themselves out as Ionians? I for my part do not believe it. It is certain therefore that if the Hindus took the word Yavana from, it must have been through the Persians and not direct from the Greek language. But the connection of the Persians with India was as old as Darius Hystaspes who had certainly reason to know the Greeks. It is therefore impossible to say that the Indians had not heard about ...
... far, that "Yāvānānī" pointed to the Aramaic script. And, if we attend to the verbal contents of Pānini's Ashtādhyāyi, we shall see that not a single word appears to have been borrowed from the Greek language whereas some contact with the Semitic tongues is undeniable. Let us quote Agrawala: 2 "Jābāla denoted a goatherd, and Mahājābāla (VI.2.38) one who was the owner of a big sheep-run.... have no Kharoshthī legend on the reverse. Although the script of the legends is a corrupt form of Greek, the language is sometimes Persian; cf. the title Shaonano Shao..." The use of the Greek language by Śakas and Kushānas or of the Greek script even when the language is different appears to associate pointedly the equivalents of ShāhānuShāhi, like the one on a coin of Eucratides between ...
... 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 the language of the gods, devabhāsā. While this devabhāsā ...
... Rome held at arm's length as long as possible the Greek influences that invaded her, closed the schools of the Greek teachers, banished the philosophers, and her most typical minds looked upon the Greek language as a peril and Greek culture as an abomination: she felt instinctively the arrival at her gates of an enemy, divined a hostile and destructive force fatal to her principle of living. Sparta, though ...
... Bhagavat Gila Goethe , 77 , 88 Gounod ajar, 203 Go swami, Bijoy, 76 government, 217, 236 controls, 213 systems of, 165, 172 , 177,178 ,214,215 Greece (ancient), 86 , 119, 168 , 183 ,217 Greek (language), 109 Greeks , 158, 179, 183,213,217 Griffith, Ralph T. H., 97(11) guru, 119 H Haeckel , 87 Hardpans civilisation, 1oo (fn) hell, 126 , 143 , 147 Page 265 ...
... first syllable and the latter on the final syllable, though accenting it on the syllable third from the end would not have militated against the special law about the place of the accent in the Greek language. Either discrepancy would not have by itself gone against the equation but their combination makes it extremely difficult to connect Váruṇa and Ouranós.... Varuṇa appears to be a purely Indo-Aryan ...
... 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 as the language of the gods, devabhāṣā . While this devabhāṣā ...
... established when he was far a way, since it would rest on goodwill rather than on force. For this reason he selected thirty thousand boys and gave orders that they should be taught to speak the Greek language and to use Macedonians weapons, and he appointed a large number of instructors to train them. His marriage to Roxane1 was a love match, which began when he first saw her at the height of her youthful ...
... little corner engrossed most of the time in his sadhana and meditations. But occasionally he too did not hesitate to join in our childish pranks. One day I asked to hear from him something in the Greek language. He gave us a recital of ten or twelve lines from Homer. That was the first time I listened to Greek verse. Such was the picture of our outer life. But how about the inner feelings? There a ...
... enacted before the eye, only a picture was presented to the imagination through the medium of language. The grosser things appear as if transfigured in the light of literary language. Besides, the Greek language itself has a power of its own, and this power has been utilised by the dramatists Page 65 as an instrument of purification. In this language of ancient Greece, there is such simple ...
... concrete objects. It is the Mind of Reason that brought in the age of philosophy, the age of pure and abstract ideas, of the analytic language. A significant point to note is that it was in the Greek language that the pre-position, the backbone almost of the analytical language, started to have an independent and autonomous status. With the Greeks dawned the spirit of Science. In India we meet ...
... different languages contain many points that are suggestive & instructive. We see first that though the root is the same, nowhere do the form & sense entirely agree. The Greek has kept the form ana which the Sanscrit has lost, lost the form anu which the Sanscrit has kept. Both are without the form ani which must, logically, have existed (cf apa , api , Greek άπó & ἐπί). Greek has also the... which it has kept. We turn to the cognate Greek & Latin languages for a clue. We find in Latin a brief list of vocables obviously derived from the same root AN . anima , breath, wind, life, soul animal animus , mind anas , a duck annus , year ānulus , a ring anus , an old woman ānus , the fundament In Greek:— άνά up, above, upon, over, beyond;... both there is the same idea of extension & contiguity; the Greek fixes on extension in contact from above upward or in front, the Sanscrit on the same idea of extended contact from behind or downwards. The difference is eloquent of the real origins & processes of language, —for we see that in the vaguer & more general idea the two languages agree,—it is in certain precisions that they differ & apply ...
... depriving him of normal discourse. I am afraid his observations even before this mishap do not show a very accurate mind on a subject which was couched originally in the New Testament's Greek, a language allied to those tackled in the Classics Department. His concluding remark on my argument runs: "It is misdirected. One should not expect to find an historical account of this kind of... either. I feel that Somerville will concur with me here since he writes that he agrees with those who "regard the Christ-event as extending beyond the life and death of the Man, Jesus". In explicit language what is meant is that, as Somerville admits, all this "makes the search for the historical Jesus pretty difficult". Thus what he calls "the material contained in the gospels", including the Sermon ...
... of Paul and the Greek Fathers. If we attend closely to Teilhard we may stand by his own uncertainties and quote him as declaring that he was developing the Cosmic Christ along the lines of Paul and Greek patristic literature. This means that he took up their emphasis on Christ's cosmicality and, without stopping with them or merely dressing them up in different language, went on to read... against the implication of a divine male element by reminding us that the Holy Spirit is feminine in Hebrew and neuter in Greek (the language of Matthew's Gospel no less Page 228 than of Luke's). Can the arbitrary gender of a noun in a certain language decide a theological issue? Are we to think of the Old Testament's Spirit of God or its God-given life-breath as a divine female... and of Sri Aurobindo's teaching comes into play. The Christian mystery was presented in terms of Jewish symbolism and apocalyptic, but this has to be translated into the language of modern science and philosophy -just as the Greek Fathers interpreted it in the light of Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. I feel perfectly justified therefore in interpreting the second coming of Christ and the New ...
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