... 132,133, 137,138,139, 145 ·146, 154,158 , 175, 179,184, 195,201,225,240,250 her unity, 62·64, 158,230.244-245, 247,249 see al so art, Bengal, British rule, education, Hindu, Hinduism, Indian, scholarship, etc. Indian, civilization, 24, 30, 64, 81, 85, 98(fn), 100,101 (fn), 137, 142, 152,247,248 culture, 64, 65, 67, 86, IIS, 137, 139, 140, 145,146, 157, 158, 168 , 171,179, 222,223, 242 ...
... the priest into the hands of the scholar. And in that keeping it suffered the last mutilation of its sense and the last diminution of its true dignity and sanctity. Not that the dealings of Indian scholarship with the hymns, beginning from the pre-Christian centuries, have been altogether a record of loss. Rather it is to the scrupulous diligence and conservative tradition of the Pandits that we owe... wholes as admirable in the structure of their thought as in their language and their rhythms. It is when we come to the interpretation of the Veda and seek Page 18 help from ancient Indian scholarship that we feel compelled to make the largest reserves. For even in the earlier days of classical erudition the ritualistic view of the Veda was already dominant, the original sense of the words ...
... AD (as the name of Kalidasa was found in the Aihole inscription dated AD 634, and also in the Harshacharita of Bana, a court poet of emperor Harsha of Kanauj who reigned from AD 606 to 647). Indian scholarship tends to place Kalidasa earlier in history than Western scholarship. Around this uncertainty, and probably because of it, a number of anecdotes, fanciful stories and legends have grown.... Puranas where the river Ganga emerges from the Bindu Sarovara through visible outlets and subterranean channels. * The reader will note with dismay that fifty years after independence, when Indian scholarship should have abandoned the misconceptions of Western critics, the word tapasya. is still translated by "penance". Page 42 lamented sorrowfully and anxiously. 35. Suppressing ...
... infinite capacity of labour marred by an irresponsible & fantastic imagination, the French a sane acuteness of inference marred by insufficient command of facts, while in soundness of judgment Indian scholarship has both; it should stand first, for it must naturally move with a far greater familiarity and grasp in the sphere of Sanscrit studies than any foreign mind however able & industrious. But above ...
... beginning of irretrievable degradation and final extinction. The very first step in reform must therefore be to revolutionise the whole aim and method of our education. 1 * * * * Indian scholarship ... must clearly have one advantage [over the European], an intimate feeling of the language, a sensitiveness ... which the European cannot hope to possess unless he sacrifices his sense of racial ...
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