... the Zarathustrian culture and society . A completely Irānianized life would be all that is necessary. Yavanas or Yonas in Ancient Indian Literature Even apart from these arguments, there is sufficient matter in ancient Indian literature to demonstrate that "Yavana" or "Yona" did not originally denote Greeks and that Aśoka's subject Yonas were without Brāhmanas and Śramanas not... implying that they lived in the north, near the Indus. Nor are the Āndhras in Indian literature invariably set in the company of the Pulindas. The earliest reference to them - in the Aitareya Brāhmana (VII, 18) -puts the Pundras next to them in its tribe-list. If we wish to go by some collocation of countries in Indian literature broadly resembling Aśoka's own list of southern territories - those of... Chandrgupta I, founder of the Imperial Guptas, we get exactly 153 or 154 kings between him and Prithu Vainya who is called the Ādi-rāja, the first consecrated king, in the Purānas and other Indian literature. On comparing what the Greek reports tell of Dionysus in India and what India's tradition says of Prithu Vainya we discover convincing reasons to see the former as variously shadowing forth the ...
... Yajurveda. But Dharma Sūtras such as Gautama, Vasishtha, Mānava, Vaikhānasa and Vishnu are not related to any specific Veda Shākhā. The word "dharma" has been used in various senses in Indian literature. According to Manu Smriti, dharma is characterised by what is contained in the Veda, in the Smriti, and in what is involved in the conduct of good and noble people as also what is good for the... This is the significance of the trinity of satyam, ritam and brihat. If we keep firm on this original meaning of ritam, we can appreciate the entire development of the concept of Dharma in Indian literature. Dharma is that which holds us, which gives us cohesion, and which keeps us fixed on the progressive path of development and growth. In this context, there can not be static Dharma, and there... ng of the Veda, not only Vedangas but also itihāsa and purānas have been recommended. From the point of view of history (itihāsa), Rāmāyana, Mahābharata and Purānas are consulted. But in Indian literature the word "itihāsa" refers mainly to Mahābhārata. Maharshi Valmiki is the author of Rāmāyana and Mahābharata was composed by Maharshi Vedavyāsa. According to the tradition, the word Purāna ...
... Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture' (this was the main "reply" to Archer), and finally the comprehensive 'A Defence of Indian Culture' with sections on 'Religion and Spirituality', 'Indian Art', 'Indian Literature' and 'Indian Polity', All these had originally appeared in the Arya from December 1919 to January 1921, but were later subjected to some revision before publication in book form. The four essays... rather is it a re-statement, a robust stock-taking, and almost a tonic manifesto for the future. The four roughly equivalent sections are devoted to 'Religion and Spirituality', 'Indian Art', ' Indian Literature' and 'Indian Polity' respectively. Four self-sufficient sections these, but united by the under-ground waters of the Spirit: the one power, the one inspiration, is seen to achieve varied self... ce of art criticism, and the Indian student as well as the unbiased Westerner will find in these pages insights and explorations of immeasurable value. Then follow five chapters on Indian literature, the first three being devoted to the Veda, the Upanishads and the two great epics - the Ramayana and the Mahabharata - respectively; the fourth, to Kalidasa and the poets of the Classical ...
... 7."Colonial and Cultural Expansion", ibid., p. 310. Page 550 cover no time earlier than "the second century A.D."' India's contact with these islands precedes that time: "Indian literature, particularly the stories narrated in the Buddhist and Jaina books for purposes of edification, contain frequent references to merchants sailing to the east for purposes of trade. The various... Prasii known to Megasthenes. Samudragupta's phrase about "Simhala and other islands" can be kept in countenance within our chronological scheme with the help of Megasthenes no less than ancient Indian literature. Great antiquity, however, cannot be ascribed to Kambu's interchange with China, nor is there "indisputable evidence of any contact between India and China before the Han period (206 B... original thinking of its author. Further, each of them cites the opinion of its author in the third person (iti Kautilyah and iti Vātsyāyanah), a style which is only rarely found in ancient Indian literature. In the Kāmasūtra there is a short adhikarana named aupanishadika which deals with artificial means of increasing youth and beauty, recipes for fascinating and making the desired man or woman ...
... Indian Literature The Renaissance in India XVII Indian Literature - 2 The Upanishads are the supreme work of the Indian mind, and that it should be so, that the highest self-expression of its genius, its sublimest poetry, its greatest creation of the thought and word should be not a literary or poetical masterpiece of the ordinary kind, but a large flood ...
... Indian Literature The Renaissance in India XVIII Indian Literature - 3 The veda is thus the spiritual and psychological seed of Indian culture and the Upanishads the expression of the truth of highest spiritual knowledge and experience that has always been the supreme idea of that culture and the ultimate objective to which it directed the life of the ...
... Indian Literature The Renaissance in India XIX Indian Literature - 4 The classical age of the ancient literature, the best known and appraised of all, covers a period of some ten centuries and possibly more, and it is marked off from the earlier writings by a considerable difference, not so much in substance, as in the moulding and the colour of its ...
... less than to salt. On the other hand the Rigveda does not mention that the community which gave rise to this scripture came from outside India - and this silence is repeated and supported by all Indian literature: at no place in the Brah-manas or the Upanishads or the Sutras or the Puranas do we have the slightest hint of an "Aryan invasion" of India. Such a silence is surely a very strong argument. Similar... to 1200 or 1000 B.C. - that is, to have started immediately at the end of the Harappa Culture whose usually accepted date is 2500-1500 B.C. - has not the faintest reference to cotton. And no Indian literature succeeding it refers to cotton, either - until we reach the time of the Sutras which are dated about a thousand years after the early hymns of the Rigveda. Here is a silence which speaks emphatically ...
... capacity, which is claimed as value free. Education without value is redundant. The need of the hour is to bring value in the entire system of education of reasoning which is value neutral. * Indian literature is fairly eloquent about values. The essence of our great ancient traditional literature is simplicity and sensitivity. There is a need for practising values in one's own life. Until and unless... Education in Human Values could be drawn carefully from the books of various religions and also from the rich literature available in different languages of the world. 3 .4 Several books of Indian Literature like Upanishads, Yoga Sutras, Buddhist texts, Charakasamhita, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita etc., have mentioned the desirable values and methods of their inculcation in human persons. These texts may ...
... Indian Literature The Renaissance in India XX Indian Literature - 5 The dominant note in the Indian mind, the temperament that has been at the foundation of all its culture and originated and supported the greater part of its creative action in philosophy, religion, art and life has been, I have insisted, spiritual, intuitive and psychic: but this f ...
... Indian Literature The Renaissance in India XVI Indian Literature - 1 The arts which appeal to the soul through the eye are able to arrive at a peculiarly concentrated expression of the spirit, the aesthesis and the creative mind of a people, but it is in its literature that we must seek for its most flexible and many-sided self-expression, for it is ...
... us: 6 "We find in the Sutras for the first time the recognition of images of the gods." There we have the characteristic iconism of the Harappa Culture thrown into relief as never before in Indian literature. Surely, parallel contemporary developments of the Indian religious life confront us. (KPI: 50) Thus the Sutras and the Indus Valley Civilisation stand face to face, products of a single... in the Mesopotamian sources. It is likely that the word Mlechchha is itself of foreign origin applied by the Harappans to their own language - a term that later became a derogatory term in the Indian literature. It is worth noting that according to the Mahabharata, in conveying a secret message to Yudhishtira, Vidura used the language of the Mlechchhas. The Sutras seem to have borne in mind ...
... Mahābhārata that the concept of King as Divinity derives from the consecration of Prithu. Prithu is the first king to be considered Deva: the appellation Bhūdeva ("Earth-God") which is common to Indian literature for a king may be traced to the legend of his anointment. So we have for both Shiva and Prithu an Indian equivalent to the initial component of "Dionysus". The terminal component can find also... Purānas of c. 302 B.C. were themselves free of these numbers. Some Indian Variants of the Yuga-Idea At least we do not have to cast about very far in non-Purānic Indian literature to realise that the idea of cycles and even of a recurring fourfold cycle is not inseparably linked with the numbers of the Purānas' mathematics. Fleet 3 writes: "The original scheme ...
... with mind and ideality, the civilisation, depth and lack of mere sensational turbulence, in one word the Aryan cast of its characters, are irritating to European scholars. Thus a historian of Indian literature complains that Bhema is the one really epic character in this poem. He meant, evidently, the one character in which vast and irresistible strength, ungovernable impetuousness of passion, warlike ...
... basis than our present limited industry. With a little energy and the assistance of Government we can broaden this basis, and then we may look forward to a new lease of life for Indian art and Indian literature and for those industries which depend on leisure and wealth. I should like now to say a few words on the subject of the assistance which a Government can give in developing the resources of ...
... aspiration to the heart's perfection and the loving unity of all life. The same uniting alchemy and fusion can take place between truth of philosophy and poetic truth and it is continually found in Indian literature. And so too all the old Rig Veda, all the Vaishnava poetry of North and South had behind it an elaborate Yoga or practised psychical and spiritual science, without which it could not have come ...
... according to another tradition recorded by the Chinese pilgrims, erected at Purushapura (Peshawar) a great stūpa more than six hundred feet in height.'" 1 A little later Sircar 7 remarks: "In Indian literature the Kushānas are prcjbably referred to as Tukhara, apparently because they had once settled in the Tukhara country, which 1."The Kushānas", ibid., p. 136. 2. Ibid. 3. The ...
... at length. His contention is that this was not so much a renaissance as a discovery of Western knowledge on the one hand and a rediscovery and therefore reaffirmation of the value of ancient Indian literature and culture. From our own discussions here, I think it is reasonably clear from all the discussions we've had on this topic that the idea of the renaissance in India in the 19th Page 365 ...
... ceremonial services, and decorations have been found in royal tombs dating back to 4000 B.C." So the silverless Rigveda must go past this date. In my belt I have to replace it with the earliest Indian literature denoting silver by rajatám hiranyam. This, according to Monier-Williams, 150 is the Yajur Veda. How far back in time should the Rigveda go? Here two facts have to be reckoned with. Greppin ...
... background. A series of unexpected events jolted my intellectual self-sufficiency and sent my emotional part looking for a perma- * With grateful acknowledgments to INDIAN LITERATURE, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1980) Birth Centenary Number, published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, pp. 90-94. Page 10 nence behind transient things, a support of some love which would ...
... brain—was exactly the same. ( the clock strikes ) I have to go.... I don't know if those experiences have been described in traditional scriptures. I haven't read any—I know nothing of Indian literature, nothing at all. I only know what Sri Aurobindo has said, plus a few odds and ends from here and there. And each time I found myself faced with their vocabulary... oh, it really puts you off! ...
... given to it in Sri Aurobindo's earlier poems and plays. For example, these words are put into the mouth of Eric, King of Norway: 20 Ibid., pp. 7-8. 21 Wintemitz, A History of Indian Literature. Page 287 Some day surely The world too shall be saved from death by Love. 22 But in Sri Aurobindo's epic, Savitri is the Avatar of the Divine Mother and not ...
... Savitri the descriptions of the adventures of Aswapati and Savitri are the most poetic and visionary expressions of these three movements. He distinguishes two different kinds of myths in Indian literature: 1) the religious-philosophical allegory and 2) the genuine secular legend. 15 It is the second type that he chooses for his poetry. In spite of the presence of Yama, the god of death, as ...
... Tilak, B.G., Orion, also the arctic home of the Vedas, New Delhi, 1984. Upadhayaya Gopal Baldev, Bhdratiya Darsana, Chokhamba, 1984, Varanasi. Wintermitz, M. History of Indian Literature (English tr.), 3 Vols., Calcutta University Press, 1959. Zimmer, H., Philosophies of India, Keghpaul, 1952, London. Page 78 Kireet Joshi (b.1931) studied philosophy and ...
... the books of various religions as also from the rich literature available in different languages of the world. Values should be religion-free—is a misnomer. 3.4Several legendary books of Indian Literature like Upnishadas, Yoga Sutras, Buddhist texts, Charak Samhita, Shrimad Bhagvad Gita, etc. Page 636 have mentioned the desirable values and methods of their inculcation in human persons ...
... their style and content as by their veritable ways of life and living. Page 57 A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Fundamental Unity of India, R.K. Mookerji. 2. History of Indian Literature, Vol. 1, Winternitz. 3. Rig-Veda Samhita (Translated by R.C. Dutt). 4. Life in Ancient India, P.T. Srinivasa Iyengar. 5. Vinaya Texts, Rhys Davids and Oldenberg. 6. Social ...
... 500 books on a variety of subjects connected with India. Knowing her special interest in culture, a large number of these books pertained to Indian art, Indian architecture, Indian dance, and Indian literature. Books on the Veda, Upanishad and the Gita as also on a number of modern commentators on Indian tradition of Yoga Page 31 constituted quite a big bulk. The rest were connected with ...
... strengthened by what Sri Aurobindo Page 65 has written in his "Foundation of Indian Culture”, on Indian religion and spirituality as also on the Veda, Upanishads and on the subsequent Indian literature. Sri Aurobindo's "Essays on the Gita” helps us also in coming closer to the original sense of the Veda and, in that light, to a profounder sense of the Gita itself. Sri Aurobindo looks ...
... to create in the minds of students an overarching picture of the whole of India demands innovative thinking and innovative experimentation. (c)Study of suitable selections from the vast Indian literature will encourage appreciation of the overarching tendency towards synthesis as also appreciation of diversity in the ever-expanding largeness of comprehensiveness and unity. (d)For the study ...
... 500; Taj, mosques, tombs, 500; sculpture & painting, 501ff, 502; Olympian and Indian gods, 501 ;Ajanta marvels, 503; the adoration group of Mother & Child, 503; the Great Renunciation, 503; on Indian literature, 503ff; "a mass of absurdities" 504; Veda and Upanishads, 504ff; unparalleled legacy, 505; the Mahabharata & Ramayana, 505; Kalidas, 505; regional literatures, 50'6; Radha Krishna cult, 506; ...
... 25. Mother India. June 1971, p. 312 26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, pp. 435,436 27. Ibid .,Vol.28,p.11 28. Ibid., p. 29. Wintemitz, A History of Indian Literature, Vol. 1, translated by Mrs. S. Ketkar, p. 397 30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 534 31. Ibid .,Vol.28,p.l7 32. Ibid., pp. 14-15 33. Ibid ., p.22 ...
... THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA: Is India Civilised?; Page 819 A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture; A Defence of Indian Culture (Religion and Spirituality, Indian Art, Indian Literature, Indian Polity); Indian Culture and External Influence; The Renaissance in India. Volume 15 — Social and Political Thought: The Human Cycle; The Ideal of Human Unity; War and S ...
... study as passionately and meticulously as a chemist measures his molecular weights and valence numbers. Unwittingly, She was discovering those well-known "centers of consciousness" or chakras Indian literature is full of. Yet all this was a sort of single Movement, which also encompassed this “force” She felt sometimes above her, sometimes within her, or in beings, objects, here or there. It was the ...
... Mother explained, I hadn’t the slightest knowledge; but all my experiences came that way—unexpectedly, without my seeking anything. 9 Much ink has been spilled about this explosion above in Indian literature; it is the opening of the center above the head, sahasradala, or “thousand-petalled lotus,” the direct communication with the great Shakti's flow and her worlds of light and beauty, which we ...
... error & delusion. If we consider the hypothesis of a rude ballad-epic doctored by "those Brahmins"—anyone who is curious on the matter may study with both profit & amusement Frazer's History of Indian Literature—we shall perceive how this method has been worked. A fancy was started in Germany that the Iliad of Homer is really a pastiche or clever rifacimento of old ballads put together in the time of ...
... shade by shade, not only signification by signification, but suggestion by suggestion. There is one initial stumbling block which can never be quite got over; the mythology, fauna & flora of Indian literature are absolutely alien to Europe. (We are in a different world; this is no peaceful English world of field or garden & woodland with the cheerful song of the thrush or the redbreast, the nightingale ...
... secular poetry and drama is throughout rich, vital and joyous and there is more tragedy, terror, sorrow and gloom packed into any few pages of European work than we can find in the whole mass of Indian literature. It does not seem to me that Indian art is at all different in this respect from the religion and literature. The Western mind is here thrusting in its own habitual reactions Page 281 ...
... and action. The nature of the present act is of an incalculable importance because it determines not only our immediate but our subsequent future. There will be found too insistently pervading Indian literature and deeply settled in the mind of the people the idea of a whole-hearted concentrated present action and energy, tapasya, as a miraculous all-powerful force for the acquisition of our desires ...
... by the editors of the volume. The editors divided the last eighteen chapters of A Defence into four sections for which they provided headings: "Religion and Spirituality", "Indian Art", "Indian Literature", "Indian Polity". The same material identically arranged was published under the same title by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, in 1959. A new edition of this book was brought out in ...
... (Cambridge University Press, 1968). The revised part dealing with prehistoric India in the 3rd ed. (1970) of The Oxford History of India by V.A. Smith, ed. P. Spear. Winternitz, M., History of Indian Literature, tr. S. Ketkar (Calcutta, 1927). Woolner, A.C., in Proceedings and Transactions of the Oriental Conference, I & II [reference by Winternitz]. Wüst, W., "Germanien", in Monatshefte ...
... a valuable tutorial on classical and Christian mythology as well as Milton's poetry. This extensively researched volume establishes him as one of the foremost literary critics in contemporary Indian literature." 17 Likewise, in the review of Sethna's Karpasa in Prehistoric India: A Chronological and Cultural Clue , G.C. Pandey, one of the foremost indologists of our country, declares: ...
... Suffuse my mood with a familiar glow. For 'tis with mouth of clay I supplicate: Speak to me heart to heart words intimate, * This article is reproduced from Indian Literature: Points of View, edited by Goutam Ghosal (1986). - Editors Page 426 And all Thy formless glory turn to love And mould Thy love into ...
... tradition that the Riks were not human inventions but discoveries of eternal words? Side by side with such interpretations as Mr. de Sa favours, there has been the living sense that, behind all the Indian literature of God-realisation and of inmost Spirit-exploration, are the Mantras, the sacred inspired revelatory utterances, going under the name of the Rigveda. If even Mr. de Sa designates the Rigveda as ...
... Sixth Century B.C.", The Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1954), p. 2. 6. Lost Languages, p. 158. 7. History of Indian Literature, English tr. by Mrs. S. Ketkar (Calcutta, 1927), I , p. 308. 8. Proceedings and Transactions of the Oriental Conference, I. pp. xvii ff; II, p. 20 ff. Page 92 against thinking ...
... touch of class everywhere, that authentic Indian behind the English Idiom, that art of seriousness long lost in the fancy-vapour of a kind of literary exercise that passes in the name of Indian literature and sells like hot cakes across the ocean. Unlike his poetry, where he uses his brief style with a masterful ease, his prose is usually based on the exhaustive method. There is a fastidious ...
... demoniac, the Asuric and Rakshasic nature whose head is a violent egoism, and by those who represent and strive to satisfy it. This is the war of the Gods and Titans, the symbol of which the old Indian literature is full, the struggle of the Mahabharata of which Krishna is the central figure being often represented in that image; the Pandavas who fight for the establishment of the kingdom of the Dharma ...
... replace them? If I continue them, shall I not be going against your current? Not at all, it is the attitude that is important. Even in the lower classes I lay stress upon the stories of Indian literature. We have no vision of the future and if we discard all these as things of the past, then what will remain in the literature? The past must be a spring-board towards the future ...
... replace them? If I continue them, shall I not be going against your current? Not at all. It is the attitude that is important. Even in the lower classes I lay stress upon the stories of Indian literature. We have no vision of the future and if we discard all these as things of the past, then what will remain in the literature? The past must be a spring-board towards the future, not a chain ...
... Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1906 Vikrama Commemoration Volume (Ujjain, 1948) Watters, T., Hiuen Tsang (London, 1904-05) Weber, A., A History of Indian Literature, 2nd Ed., (London, 1882) Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1955 Page 619 Whithead, R. B., In Numismatic Chronicle, Sixth Chronicle ...
... Ganges." But he himself admits: "A people called Gāngā or Gahgeya inhabiting lower Bengal and having their capital at a city called Gāngā (Greek Gange or Ganges) is not known from ancient Indian literature." And we may make the addition: "The river Gāngā is not confined to Lower Bengal. Gange as a city-name is also not unique to the Ganges-delta. Artemidorus (c. 100 B.C.), the author of an earlier ...
... husbandry to remain quite unmolested." Majumdar, 1 taking Sandrocottus to be Chandragupta Maurya, expresses surprise: "The statement that 'famine has never visited India' is contradicted by Indian literature which refers to famine even in ancient days. Reference is made, for example, in Jain literature to a terrible famine at the time of Chandragupta Maurya." Majumdar's "example" is drawn, as his ...
... think it is at best symbolic. But I love white flowers, white blossoming trees. Yes, I had understood that forest-dwellers in India are something more than wood-cutters, it is woven throughout Indian literature, those blissful forest-dwellers in their hermitages in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata too, and when I looked up into the hills above Rishikesh I knew there were still holy-men who come down ...
... practical skills in one or more forms of art and culture. The module is proposed to cover: *Indian schools of painting. *Indian schools of music. *Indian schools of dance. *Indian literature. Practical aspect of the Module will comprise training in either music, painting, dance or literature. Counselling Two problems have become prominent during recent years. The ...
... Krishna, his charm and sweetness one night in August 1494 A.D. The eight verses that he composed to describe his ecstasy on the vision of the sweetness of Sri Krishna have become well known in Indian literature pertaining to the yoga of devotion as Madhurashtakam (eight verses depicting the sweetness of Sri Krishna). These verses have moved millions of Indians over centuries, and we give in the next ...
... cogitation and reflection on the Object of Knowledge, nididhyāsana, dwelling in concentration on the Object of Knowledge, and s ā kṣ ā tk ā ra, realisation of the Object of Knowledge. Indian literature on yoga has described various methods by which concentration can be attained. Speaking of the application of the powers of concentration in the processes of education, Swami Vivekananda once said ...
... deepest maladies of the contemporary humanity; this enhances the value of the Vedic knowledge and therefore of Sanskrit. b) Vedas are being now acknowledged not only as a part of the ancient Indian literature but also as a part of the world literature. Hence, the time is ripening when people of the world will turn to Sanskrit with increasing interest. c) As far as India is concerned, it has to ...
... accuracies; it is also true that much is not known about many great men and women who flourished in different epochs of history; it is also true that the meanings of some of the greatest products of Indian literature have been interpreted differently by different scholars. But the answer to these questions is to undertake a programme of thorough going research instead of subjecting them to neglect or even ...
... and synthesis (d) True understanding of religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism. (e) Synthesis of spiritual experience. 2. Indian Literature: (a) Sanskrit and Tamil (b) Birth of modem Indian languages (c) Great literary masters: a detailed study of one of them. 3. Indian Art: (a) The aim of ...
... of the East, F. MaxMūller (Ed.), Motilal Banarasi Dass, 1962, Delhi, Vol. XXXIV. Upadhayaya Gopal Baldev, Bhāratiya Darśana, Chokhamba, 1984, Varanasi. Winternitz, M. History of Indian Literature (English tr.), 3 Vols., Calcutta University Press, 1959. Zen-Avesta, The, Vendidad, James Dermesteter (tr.), Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1990. Zimmer, H., P ...
... also include a special study of Indian culture and Indian system of values. It should also include the study of Indian religion and spirituality, Indian ethics and Indian concept of dharma, Indian literature, Indian art, Indian architecture, and Indian polity. It may be suggested that these programmes can be spread over three years of courses. Page 225 IX In the light of the ...
... Upanishads also speak of apara and para vidya - the lower knowledge and the higher knowledge, of different states of consciousness and their interrelationship. In the subsequent writings in Indian literature, we have further glimpses of the systems of education that flourished in ancient times and in the later periods. From all these accounts, we can gather an idea of the knowledge that was practised ...
... Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1933). Wimsatt JR., William K, & Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism : A Short History (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957). Winternitz, M. A History of Indian Literature, Vol. I, Translated from the German by Mrs. S. Ketkar (University of Calcutta, 1927). Woodroffe, Sir John. Is India Civilized ? (Ganesh 8c Co., Madras, 1918). The World ...
... Indian Culture AND THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA: I s India Civilised? ; A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture; A Defence of Indian Culture (Religion and Spirituality, Indian Art, Indian Literature, Indian Polity); Indian Culture and External Influence; The Renaissance in India. Volume 15 Social and Political Thought: The Human Cycle; The Ideal of ...
... strength of which Savitri is built" (Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, First Series p. 294). 6. Disjecta Membra: Studies in Literature and Life, p.61 . 7. A History of Indian Literature, Vol. I, (Tr.by Mrs. S. Ketkar), p. 397. 8. ibid.., p. 398. 9. ibid.., p. 398. 10. Vyasa and Valmiki, p. 22. Sri Aurobindo seems to have attempted a rendering ...
... Islam and Puranic Hinduism. 92 That would be the divinised society of the future, and that would also be the true communistic society.* * At the Bombay Seminar on 'Sri Aurobindo and Indian Literature' (14 May 1972), more than one Urdu scholar (K.A. Faruqi, Malik Ram, Waheed Akhtar) referred to the similarities between Sir Mohammad Iqbal and Sri Aurobindo. Both had been critical of Sankara's ...
... speaker and writer; as editor of the Modern Review and the Prabasi he has raised the status and quality of Indian periodical literature to an extraordinary extent, and has recently been doing a yet more valuable and lasting service to his country by introducing the masterpieces of the new school of Art to his readers. His present venture is not in itself an ambitious one, as it purports only to provide... reproductions of Ravivarma's pictures which were only recently so prominent in Indian houses and, even now, are painfully common, and we recall with wonder the time when we could gaze upon these crude failures without an immediate revolt of all that was artistic within us. Could anything be more gross, earthy, un-Indian and addressed purely to the eye than his "Descent of Ganges", or more vulgar and... we see something Indian and characteristic struggling to express itself in this foreign mould. Unlike Ravivarma Sj. Durandhar has always a worthy and often poetic conception, even when he fails to express it in line and colour. In the stillness and thoughtfulness of the figures in the second illustration of the book there is a hint of the divine presence which is suggested, and Indian richness, massiveness ...
... ation to say that Indian culture denies all value to life, detaches from terrestrial interests and insists on the unimportance of the life of the moment" - says: "To read these European comments one would imagine that in all Indian thought there was nothing but the nihilistic school of Buddhism and the monistic Illusionism of Shankara and that all Indian art, literature and social thinking... impulse it imparted to art and thought and in a less degree to literature, are a sufficient proof of the strong vitality of its method. If this positive turn was present in the most extreme philosophy of denial, it was still more largely present in the totality of Indian culture. "There has been indeed from early times in the Indian mind a strain, a tendency towards a lofty and austere exaggeration... to its height in the philosophy of Shankara, his theory of Maya, which put its powerful imprint on the Indian mind and, coinciding with a progressive decline in the full vitality of the race, did tend for a time to fix a pessimistic and negative view of terrestrial life and distort the larger Indian ideal. But his theory is not at all a necessary deduction from the great Vedantic authorities, the Upanishads ...
... and wrote verses in Greek and Latin—and also in English—in his Cambridge days. He had besides an intimacy with several European literatures, and after returning to India, he tried to gain an equal intimacy with Sanskrit, Bengali and some other modern Indian literatures. Apart from the undergraduate Greek and Latin exercises in versification, all Sri Aurobindo's poetry is in English. ... years he wrote numerous lyrics, but more and more these came to be charged with philosophical or spiritual import. There is, on the whole, an unflagging mastery both of language and rhythm. Western and Indian mythology agreeably mingle in a poem like Who in which Jupiter figures in one stanza and Brahma in the next, and the rhythm has an anapaestic swing as in: We will tell the whole world... realism make up a single whole. For here the stage is the human mind of all times.. ." 105 These prefatory remarks of the author apply more or less to all five plays, whether they seem to have an Indian or an alien origin. In Perseus the Deliverer, Polydaon the priest of Poseidon is the central figure; his very sanctity makes him wrong-headedly to assume (like Raghupati the priest ...
... Culture? Distinction between Civilisation and Culture; (2) Indian Rationality; (3) Indian Aesthetics (Literature, Art, Music, Dance, Drama); Page 211 (4) Indian Ethics and Dharma; . (5) Indian Religion and Spirituality; (6) Distinctive Features of Indian Culture; (7) Indian Renaissance. In the second component, it will provide a possibility... dance; 11. Languages and Literatures; 12. Countries of the world. The second component of this course would consist of a number of alternatives, and students may be allowed to select any two or three alternative studies. This may include, with greater details, the following topics: (a) Amazing facts of any five domains; (b) Some details of Indian history and geography and the... any one of the domains of industries and commerce; (e) Basic details of the main periods of Indian history; (f) Detailed information regarding modem art, modem music, greatest contemporary poets; or (g) Detailed information regarding Sanskrit, Gujarati, Hindi and English literature, etc. 2. Contemporary Global World: This course may have two components (Annexure II) ...
... Hindu sacred writings, regarded as the source of the Vedanta philosophy. upari budhna e ṣām —their foundation is above. (Rig Veda) Veda — generic name for the most ancient Indian sacred literature. Vedanta —the "end or culmination of the Veda"; a system of philosophy based on the Upanishads (which occur at the end of the Veda), teaching the culminating knowledge of the Absolute... different connotations in different contexts. The meanings given below apply to the terms as used in this book. the Absolute — the supreme reality of that transcendent Being which we call God. Indian thought calls it Brahman, European thought the Absolute because it is a self-existent which is absolved of all bondage to relativities. Advaitin — a Vedantic Monist. Akshara — the... generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. 2. one of the six systems of orthodox Indian philosophy systematised by Patanjali. Page 419 ...
... soul-culture of India as he has in his The Secret of the Veda and The Foundations of Indian Culture. His comprehensive writings on yoga, on the evolution of social and political institutions, on the desirability and possibility of a World Union, on literary criticism, his exegeses of Indian scriptural literature, his scintillating letters on a variety of life-problems, and his literary output... seems to have persuaded the academics in Indian universities to take more than a peripheral interest in Sri Aurobindo. Some years ago C.D. Narasimhaiah, 6 the well-known literary scholar and critic, observed that in his The Future Poetry Sri Aurobindo had given certain clear guidelines which if followed would have led to the inauguration of an Indian school of literary criticism- Narasimhaiah... consciousness of this country in the early years of this century is probably known only to specialist students of Indian history. His contribution to political and social thought, to psychology, to the discovery of the real meaning of the Vedas, to the philological studies of Indian languages, his luminous interpretations of India's past, his epoch- making contributions to Yoga, and to philosophy ...
... Asoka's days Buddhism was accepted in most parts of India and throughout Ceylon. Later it spread to the countries of Southeast Asia and across the mountains into China. And with Buddhism went Indian art, literature, and philosophy. The influence that India still exercises in eastern Asia began with this cultural expansion under Asoka. Suggestions for further reading Arnold, Sir Edwin. The ...
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