Jouveau-Dubreuil : Nolini: “In those days [1910-14] in the Collège de France in Pondicherry, a French professor…engaged in research in ancient history & archaeology. We knew him very well…. From a study of ancient documents & inscriptions he discovered that Pondicherry had at one time been known as veda-puri…a centre of Vedic learning. And this Vedic college, our professor found from ancient maps & other clues, was located exactly on the spot where the main building of the Ashram now stands.” [Reminiscences, 2015, p.52; s/a Pondicherry]
... 'Polesere.' Under the French, after several transformations and misspellings, it finally became 'Pondichery,' from which the English derivation, Pondicherry. That name stuck. In the 1930s came G. Jouveau-Dubreuil as professor of History in the Colonial College at Pondicherry. Impassioned by the town's history, he carried out extensive research. Here are a few pluckings from him. 2 1 Majumdar... to the vihara and regularized its boundaries. On that occasion a charter was engraved on a copper plate marking those boundaries. The plate is in Holland, at the Museum of Leyde University. Jouveau-Dubreuil called the Chinese temple 'Chinese Pagoda.' It was destroyed by the Jesuits in the nineteenth century. Could Pondicherry be outdone? No, no. It had its own Far-Eastern temple: 'Burmese Pagoda... he found a 'singular' statue: "The Tamils assured me that it was 'Baouth' [Buddha], and that the Chinese came to the Coromandel coast for trading at the time of 'Baouth.' " By cross-checking, Jouveau-Dubreuil found out that the Buddhist temple was situated on the east bank of the Ariankuppam river, at the cremation ground. The statue, he says, is of Buddha at the moment of his Enlightenment: a Buddhistic ...
... have little independent value (autorit é absolue) although they may be used as a check (controle) upon or a guide (indice) to the interpretation of positive history. In a narrower context Jouveau-Dubreuil 2 has also put palaeography in its true place: he has remarked that it is a bad auxiliary to the chronology of Indian history as very often the documents dated in the same reign differ much from... Kushānas named Maghā. Of course, a good deal of Altekar's "fatal objection" would vanish if the Gupta Era of 320 A.D. were seen in our light as terminating the Guptas; but here, as in Lévi and Jouveau-Dubreuil, what is to be noted is the acknowledged limitations of the palaeographical criterion and the primacy given to historical conditions within an accepted context. A striking defect in utter ...
... feelings, passions, etc ... that constitute the various expressions of the Life Energy. × Jouveau-Dubreuil. ...
... have little independent value (autorite absolue) although they may be used as a check (controle) upon or a guide (indice) to the interpretation of positive history. In a narrower context Jouveau Dubreuil 2 has also put palaeography in its true place: he has remarked that it is a bad auxiliary to the chronology of Indian history as very often the documents dated in the same reign differ much from ...
... The greatest spiritual sages in India have always been careful in selecting the site which was to become the SEAT of their attainment. Pavitra told me that the renowned French archeologist Jouveau-Dubreuil found evidence that it was on the exact spot where the great Rishi Agastya and his spouse Lopamudra had made their arduous endeavour of digging through to the "Sun dwelling in the darkness" that ...
... Rishis before him had done, to find a footing where there was none, apade pada-dhatave. In those days there was in the College de France in Pondicherry a French professor named Jouveau Dubreuil – later on he became quite a well-known name – who had been engaged in research in ancient history and archaeology. We knew him quite well. He was at that time working on the early history of ...
... before him had done, to find a footing where there was none, apade pada-dhatave. Page 46 In those days there was in the College de France in Pondicherry a French professor named Jouveau Dubreuil—later on he became quite a well-known name—who had been engaged in research in ancient history and archaeology. We knew him quite well. He was at that time working on the early history of P ...
... difficult sadhana and trying to lay the foundations of a New Dispensation? But there was the other side of the medal too, and this came to light by and by. A French savant. Professor Jouveau Dubreuil, who was then at the College de France in Pondicherry, did some valuable research in local history and archaeology and came upon the discovery that at one time long long ago the place had teen ...
... Aurobindo Archives and Research of April 1989, Peter Heehs has decisively proved that both assertions are based on the wrong interpretation of some findings by the French archeologist Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil. A pity, but it was too good not to be true. One of the most wide-spread legends — closely connected with the expectation about the physical transformation of the body of Sri Aurobindo and ...
... Jerome Biblical Commentary, 259 Jhelum (Hydaspes), 100 Jivita-gupta, 486-88 Jogalthembi hoard, 469 Johares, 94, 95 Jolly, J., 563, 570, 577 Jones, Sir William, 1 Jouveau-Dubreuil, 30, 335 Junāgadh/Junāgarh rock inscription, 45, 209, 256, 267, 471, 472, 548-9, 552, 558, 572, 593, 596, 599-600 Jushka, 48 Justin, 64, 65, 66, 192, 194, 195, 196, 204, 212, ...
... otherwise. They had no alternative but to accept the decision, though with a heavy heart." * "In those days there was in the College de France in Pondicherry a French professor named Jouveau Dubreuil - later on he became quite a well-known name - who had been engaged in research in ancient history and archaeology. We knew him quite well. He was at that time working on the early history ...
... least colossally absurd, "the truly astounding statement that the Kangra paintings are of European inspiration and that they were painted for the English market"! Only yesterday while reading Mr. Jouveau-Dubreuil's able historical monograph I found myself brought up short by the sweepingly positive but hardly judicial and certainly not judicious statement that "the Deccan like the North was inspired by ...
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