Smith, Vincent : (b.1848), Irishman; ICS: posted in India, 1871: NW Frontier Province, Oudh, the Settlement Dept. & subordinate posts until he became Magistrate-Collector 1889: District Judge 1895: Chief Secretary & Commissioner 1898, retired 1900: Reader in Indian History & Hindustani in the University of Dublin 1902-3: wrote General Index to Cunningham’s Archæological Survey Reports 1887; The Remains near Khāsia 1896; the Jain Stūpa & Other Antiquities of Mathura 1901; Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India 1901; the Early History of India 1904: Catalogue of the non-Muhammadan Coins in the Indian Museum & articles in Calcutta Review, Quarterly review & Indian Antiquary: edited Sleeman’s Rambles & Recollections 1893. [Buckland]
... (Kurukshetra, 1967). Shukla, S.P., "Protohistoric art of Punjāb and Haryana", in Haryana Sahitya Akademi Journal of Indological Studies Vol. III, nos. 1-2 (Chandigarh, 1990). Smith, Vincent A., The Oxford History of India, ed. Percival Spear, 3rd rev. ed. (1970). Snoy, Peter, "The Last Pagans of the Hindu Kush", in Natural History (Nov. 1959). Sri Aurobindo ...
... Skanda (Karttikeya, Senapati, Vicakha), 243, 578, 579, 582 Skanda Sātakarni, 474 Skandagupta, 45, 316, 449, 494, 499, 500, 510, 511, 513-4, 517, 531, 549, 552, 599-600 Smith, Vincent, 35, 44, 93, 99, 100, 101, 206, 219, 246, 293, 256, 262, 281, 338, 346, 359, 371, 373, 375, 443, 446, 449, 474, 547, 553-4, 572 Soderblom, 281 Sodroi, 426-7 Sogdiana ...
... As the historian Vincent A. Smith remarks: "Both stories cannot be true; even an apostle can die but once." Although on the material available Smith considers southern India as a better candidate for the martyrdom, he adds: "But it is by no means certain that St. Thomas was martyred at all. An early writer, Heracleon the Gnostic, asserts that he ended his days in peace." Smith's final judgment runs: ...
... movement is making can be measured by the amount of opposition it meets, and it is encouraging to note that the revival of Indian Art is exciting intellectual opponents to adverse criticism. Mr. Vincent Smith, a solid and well-equipped scholar and historian but not hitherto noted as an art-critic, recently lectured on Indian Art, ancient and modern. It is not surprising that he should find little to ...
... people almost develop a vested interest in human misery, for if such misery were abolished altogether, wouldn't the philanthropists find their occupation gone? She recalled how, in a film Monsieur Vincent, the philanthropist "found out that when he fed ten poor men, a thousand came along"! Wasn't he really creating the poor ones by feeding them? It is not that the Mother was against help to the ignorant... human misery, and reacted in two different ways. One was Prince Siddhartha, for whom suffering was the result of life itself, and hence the way out was a release into Nirvana. The other was Saint Vincent de Paul, the result of whose apostleship was the creation of "an appreciable sense of charity in the mentality of a certain section of the well-to-do", but by and large the wretched and the poor... quietude, all, all, almost from the ends of the world, made a beeline to Pondicherry. "Home is where the Mother is" - thought many after their arrival in the Ashram. One of the newcomers, Jay Holmes Smith, thought that the Mother, as she stood on the Balcony, was truly "ageless", and he found in the Ashram "a rare combination of an exhilarating freedom with a delightful and powerful harmony". 4 The ...
... Indus-region, and the foreigner strikes a treaty with him. Now the question of questions is: Whose is "the existing government" which Sandrocottus wants overthrown in his own favour? Vincent Smith 1 and H.C. Raychaudhuri 2 take it to be the government of Xandrames and they rest their case on the word "thereafter" (deinde in the Latin). Raychaudhuri writes: "The use of the term deinde... vanquishing the prefects. And, in between the two versions of the same declaration apropos of the fight with the foreigners, we have 1. Chandragupta Maurya and His Times, p. 52. 2.Vincent Smith, loc. cit.. 3. Ibid. Page 197 the switch-back story of how Sandrocottus came "to aspire to royalty". What he had aspired to is obviously realized in this winning ...
... Taprobanè? Aśoka's "Tambapamnī" and "Tambapamnīya" Two scholars - Vincent Smith 3 and B. A. Saletore 4 - have opined that Aśoka was referring not to Ceylon but to the river Tāmraparnī which watered the southernmost region of India, the present Tinnevelly district. Barua 5 , taking stock of Smith's position apropos of the Aśokan word "Tambapamnī", pronounces: "The Tambapamnī of R... initial S omitted, we have actually Samudragupta to deal with and it sounds very much like a variant of Samitracottus and may be equated with Samudragupta. However, what fits the king whom Vincent Smith called "the Indian Napoleon" hardly goes well with Chandragupta Maurya's son Bindusāra. Doubtless, the Tibetan writer Taranatha writes that Bindusāra's minister Chānakya helped his monarch to... India", The Vedic Age, p. 257. Page 261 tās, Brāhmanas, Upanishads and Sūtras, speaks of in connection with the Punjab and Sind. We may then very well echo the phrase of Vincent Smith: 1 "a fancied connection with Dionysus and the sacred mountain Nysa of Greek legend." We may safely assert: the accounts of Alexander's invasion reveal no Greek colony in India. Judged from ...
... 2. Early India and Pakistan (Bombay, 1959), p. 126. 3.In the revised part dealing with prehistoric India in the Third Edition (1970) of The Oxford History of India by the Late Vincent A. Smith, edited by Percival Spear. p. 34. Page 4 been the Painted Grey Ware - PGW for short - found at a large number of sites in the Gangetic Valley. Presently it is considered datable ...
... 1."Aśoka the Great", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 89. 2. The Political History of Ancient India, 5th Edition (Calcutta University, 1950), p. 376. The author's footnote refers to Vincent Smith's Early History of India, 4th Edition, p. 202 n. Page 28 first and foremost, followers of typically Hindu cults, especially Vaishnavism. If we are to make any sense of the obvious... referring the dates to the Chedi or the Gupta era is the contemporaneity of some of these rulers with the Imperial Guptas, which it renders inevitable. The Gupta feudator- 1.Quoted in English by Vincent Smith in The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 31, 1902, p. 196. 2.Quoted in English by Govind Pai in The Journal of Indian History, August 1935, p. 197. 3."New Indian States in Rajputana and Madhyadesa"... who has tested numerous dates from the fifth to eighth centuries by means of Chinese references, concludes that 'the accuracy of the Sinhalese annals is triumphantly vindicated by this test'. Vincent Smith, than whom there is no severer critic of the Sinhalese chronicles, confesses that 'there is not, I believe, any reason to doubt the substantial accuracy of the Ceylonese dates even for the much ...
... hardly count the leading lights. "There are grave doubts," says Raychaudhuri, 2 "as to whether in its present shape the famous book is as old as the time 1. The Oxford History of India by Vincent A. Smith, 3rd Ed., edited by Percival Spear (1970), "Authorities", p. 115. 2."Note on the Date of Arthaśāstra", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 286. Page 546 of the first Maurya... for collateral lines and for a period of merely 300 years for the main one, he 2 admits: "There is difference of opinion amongst scholars as regards the problem of Sātavāhana chronology". Both Vincent Smith in an older generation and Dr. Gopalachari recently have accepted a fairly longer duration and a larger number of kings in the main line. 3 About Āpīlaka who in the Purānic list precedes Kuntala... and the differences are much more striking. Megasthenes finds more corroboration in Manu than in Kautilya." The precise view taken of the Arthaśāstra at present may best be gathered from Smith and Raychaudhuri combined, with one or 1. Ibid., p. 66. 2. Ibid., pp. 303-04. 3. Aśoka and His Inscriptions, Part II, p. 42. 4."Language and Literature", The Age of Imperial ...
... the two types were chronologically wide apart. 5 4. In the revised part dealing with prehistoric India in the Third Edition (1970) of The Oxford History of India by the Late Vincent A. Smith, edited by Percival Spear, p. 34. 5. Op. cit. (see fn. 1), p. 403, col. 2 and p. 323, col. 2. The comparative study was done at first hand from the Safdarjung collection at New Delhi. The ...
... in breathtaking splendour are radiant in myth and mystery. These, the youngest and tallest mountain ranges, feed the Ganga and the Indus River with never-ending streams of snow. Vincent Smith, an authority on early India, had said: "India, encircled as she is by seas and mountains, is indisputably a Page 157 geographical unit, and as such is rightly designated ...
... Sahasram 257-8 Underhill, Evelyn 61, 96 U.N.O. 446 Vasudha Shah 255, 265ff, 287, 674, 691, 699, 817 Vaun McPheeters 255, 296-7 Venkataraman, K.S. 258, 351, 377 Vijayatunga, J. 461, 535 Vincent de Paul, Saint 551-2 Virgil 485, 633 Visvamitra, Rishi 92 Vivekananda, Swami 15 Werner Haubrich (Saumitra) 674 ,. The Wherefore of the Worlds 110, 120, 127 Wilson, Margaret see Nishtha... Iyer, C.P. Ramaswami 715 Janina 701 Janine (Morisset) Panier 477 Janet McPheeters see Shantimayi Jatti, B.D. 817, 821 Jawaharlal Nehru 404, 457, 595-6, 624, 716 Jay Holmes Smith 547-8, 589 Jaya Devi 233-4, 236, 239, 242 Jayantilal Parekh 691 Jesus Christ 180, 317, 482, 762 Jinnah, M.A. 446-7, 451, 458, 463 John of the Cross, Saint 41, 112 Jones, William... 341, 549 Amrita 91-2 Page 909 André 478 Baron 662-3 Bibhas 670 Champaklal 212, 222, 420 Chidanandam 231, 765 Dilip Kumar 260 Ganapati Muni 258 Ganapatram 278 Huta 588 Jay Smith 547-8, 589 Jaya 239 Kanailal 218, 224 Kapali Sastry 256-7, 288-9 Kodandarama 212 Lizelle 49 Maurice 369 Minnie 765 Mishra 575 Mrityunjoy 270, 289, 364 Munshi 537 Narayan Prasad 434 ...
... the beginning of spring is general rather than precise: it does not connote the very first day of the season, for that day cannot equally apply to the Indus-crossing and the arrival at Taxila. Vincent Smith 2 tells us that the arrival must have been 3 days later. So Aristobulus must mean a span of several days constituting the initial portion of spring. This is confirmed by another passage in Strabo... and uninterrupted sequences many occurrences which actually stand fairly apart. Smith, 1 following Arrian (V.8), Diodorus (XVII.87) and Curtius (VII.12, 13), 2 speaks of Alexander's "stay in his comfortable quarters at Taxila for a sufficient time to rest his army". Then the march to the Hydaspes (Jhelum) took, by Smith's calculation, 3 probably a fortnight. On the western bank of the Hydaspes there... watching and foraging, while Porus deployed his army on the eastern bank. Smith 4 supposes 6 or 7 weeks of preliminaries and preparations such as described by Arrian (V.9.10): 5 at least a month may be supposed. Aristobulus slurs over all these things. He slurs similarly over intervals prior to the Indus-crossing. Smith, 6 quoting Curtius (VIII. 12), 7 writes that, having left the mountainous ...
... than they had in the old times. Disciple : What is the cause of it? Why do people nowadays easily fall a prey to the forces that bring madness. Sri Aurobindo : You had better read Vincent Smith; there you will find all the causes. Disciple : You are not in a mood to reply. Would it be a very long reply? Disciple : It would be a "voluminous" reply ! Disciple : I wanted ...
... encompassing realization – the world becomes our own being – but we lose the sense of individuality; indeed, it would be a mistake to think of a Mr. Smith sitting in the middle of his cosmic consciousness and enjoying the view – for there is no more Mr. Smith. Discovering the Transcendent is a very lofty realization, but we lose both the individual and the world – there is nothing left but That, forever... it is capable of embracing, it is still incapable of implementation. Ultimately, if collective evolution had nothing better to offer than a pleasant mixture of human and social "greatness," Saint Vincent de Paul and Mahatma Gandhi with a dash of Marxism-Leninism and paid vacations thrown in, then we could not help concluding that such a goal would be even more insipid than the millions of "golden birds"... integral development through time. Actually, it is not the small frontal personality that reincarnates, even if this comes as a disappointment to those who picture themselves as eternally the same Mr. Smith, in a Saxon tunic, then in velvet breeches, and finally in synthetic jogging pants, not to mention how boring this would be. The meaning of reincarnation is both deeper and vaster. At the time of death ...
... for its name is not mentioned in the Rigveda.... 65.P. 205. 66.The revised part dealing with Ancient India in the Third Edition (1970) of The Oxford History of India by the late Vincent A. Smith, edited by Perceval Spear, p. 516. 67. Ibid. 68. Ibid. 69. A History of Sanskrit Literature (New impression, William Heinemann Ltd.. London, 1928), p. 151. Page 234 ... cake and the wine, the grain for the God-Mind's radiant coursers. He receives them into his being and their gifts into his life, increases them by the hymns and the wine and forms perfectly, - as a smith forges iron, says the Veda, - their great and luminous godheads. 524 Here is a constant give-and-take, the Rishi is an ally of the gods, they increase themselves through his sacrifices and his ...
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