Wilson, Prof. : Horace Hayman (1786-1860): arrived in Calcutta 1808 in the medical service of the E.I. Co.: at once attached to the Mint at Calcutta for his knowledge of chemistry & assay: Secretary to the Asiatic Socy of Bengal 1811-32 with short intervals: studied Sanskrit steadily & translated Kālidāsa’s Meghadutam 1813: appointed Assay-master 1816 at the Calcutta Mint, held that position until he left India in 1832: published the Theatre of the Hindus & Sanskrit-English dictionary (two editions) besides contributing to the Asiatic Researches, the Journals of the Asiatic Medical, & the Physical Societies, & other Oriental Literature: was Secretary to the Committee of Public Instruction, introducing the study of European Science & English Literature into native education: visited the Sanskrit College: Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford 1833: Hon. M.A. at Exeter College: Librarian of the India House 1836: Examiner at Haileybury [see I.C.S.] & Director of Royal Asiatic Society 1837-60: published Vishnu Purana, Lectures on the Religious & Philosophical Systems of the Hindus 1840: Sanskrit grammar: the Ariana Antiqua: new edition of Mil’s History of British India: translation of Rig-Veda; Glossary of Indian Terms, & an edition of Macnaghten’s Hindu Law: greatest Sanskrit scholar of his time, linguist, historian, chemist, accountant, numismatist, actor & musician. [Buckland]
... Western historians, 1 Wheeler, Sir Mortimer, 2th., 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 38, 57, 64, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 103, 104, 105, 121, 125, 128, 129 Wheels, spoked, 46-53 Wilson, Prof., 41, 43 Winternitz, M., 92 Woolner, A.C., 92 Wiist, W., 46 Xanthos of Lydia, 93 Yajurveda, 13, 14 Yakshus, 127 Yavyāvatī, 126 ...
... the Rig-Veda Saṁhitā". We may note his remark: "...in R.-V.I. 21.2 we have Indrāgni sśum-bhata narah, which Prof. Wilson translates into 'Decorate Indra and Agni with ornaments'. In R.-V.III. 4.4 nripeśas is explained by Prof. Roth as 'adorned by men' and by Prof. Wilson as 'of sensible shapes'. R.-V.II. 33.8 speaks of-Rudra as white-complexioned (śviticha), which, along with pipiśe... beneficent deity", 20 the typical Shiva. Hymn II. 33.8 calls Rudra "fair-complexioned". 21 Griffith annotates: "the white complexion of Śiva, the later representative of Rudra, has, therefore, as Wilson observes, its origin in the Rgveda." 22 Lastly, hymn X. 92.9 has Rudra actually described as "shiva", a word which Griffith translates "auspicious". 23 Here we may touch on a point of ...
... tion exhibited by certain groups of animals. In this process an organism very readily replaces its missing parts lost through some accident or even if seriously injured. Experiments conducted by Wilson and Muller on sponges, by Davidof on ribbon worms, by E. Schultz on fresh-water hydra and by other investigators on some other metazoa have brought to light the highly significant phenomenon that... obligatory. It is thus seen that unicellular organisms like the amoeba possess a kind of potential immortality and are exempt from the nemesis of natural death. As it has been picturesquely put by Prof. Mariano Fiallos-Gil, the protozoan we are viewing through our microscope today has had no dead ancestors; it is the direct descendant of the original of its kind. Omnis cellula ex cellula. ... privileged isolation do ? The answer is a Yes and a No. First, the germ cells. It is a fact of biological experience that germ cells are indeed equally immortal. "Reduced to a formula," as Prof. R. Pearl has observed, "the fertilized ovum (united germ cells) produces a soma and more germ cells. The soma eventually dies. But some of the germ cells prior to that event produce so-mata and ...
... Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, Wode-house's Jeeves, Harry Leon Wilson's Mr. Ruggles, etc. Here is a small piece illustrating humour of character: it concerns one Mr. Hallam who was inordinately fond of contradicting whatever was reported to him. Sydney Smith, the great humorist, describes Hallam's character-trait in this way (as reported by Prof. Walter Jerrold in his book A Book of Famous Wits): ... depend in any appreciable way either on any verbal devices or on the subtle manipulation of the ideas or even on the character of the persons concerned. Here are the two illustrations culled from Prof. Stephen Leacock's book Humour and Humanity. (3) "At a ball one night a lady came to her husband and beckoned him aside and said, 'John, you've managed somehow to rip your trousers at the back... Indian, but not to us." 4 The second example of an unadulterated "humour of situation" centres round what once befell Canon Ainger, a 'reverend gentleman'. The story is as follows - as told.by Prof. Leacock: (4) "The canon, very fond of children, was invited to a children's party. On his arrival, the servant was about to show him into a room where the buzz of voices indicated company. 'Don't ...
... seclusions of the forests, and the males are capable of coping in fight with the lion. The skull of one is in the Boston Museum, sent thither by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, a missionary. Last year, the body of one was sent from Sierra Leone to Prof. Owen, packed in a cask of rum. The males have a horrible appearance; they attain to a stature of five feet, with wrists four times the size of a man’s.” 39 ... world-changing book. The Book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life was published on 24 November 1859. 5 A.N. Wilson writes that it sold in quantities to rival the novels of Charles Dickens. On the day the book became available, all 1,250 copies were already subscribed to by the retail trade, so it went immediately... Even after the impact of the first shockwave, though, “Christian commitment was not the exception but the rule … Most of the leading scientists of Great Britain retained a Christian commitment.” (A.N. Wilson 9 ) In a thunderstorm lightning strikes only after clouds have gathered, and one strike does not exhaust the storm. Revolutions are a sudden discharge of built up tensions and bring about a drastic ...
... the bright bands would be due to the crests of two waves coinciding. Here was evidence as reliable as that obtained by photographing tracks, which could only be of particles, in the device known as Wilson's Cloud Chamber or by bombarding with electrons a sheet of glass lightly powdered with zinc sulphide crystals and proving, by the sparks produced, the electrons to be like small bullets, like tiny particles... today is in terms of a wave-function found by Schrodinger in 1926. At one time it was thought that the electron is both a particle and a wave. Even experimental evidence appeared to confirm this view. Prof. G.P. Thomson prepared a sheet of metal, crystalline in structure and one- millionth of an inch thick, and sent a stream of electrons through it upon a photographic plate on the other side: the pattern... particle but shows itself to be just what one would expect on account of Heisenberg's Principle. If definite position leaves velocity utterly indefinite and vice versa, then in an experiment like Prof. Thomson's in which there is a crystalline sieve with holes just big enough to let one electron pass through each at a time and thus accurately define its position we can never know anything as to where ...
... England around 1890 when he was still in his teens. The entire piece is in the form of a Socratic dialogue between one Keshav Ganesh who is presumably young Aurobindo himself and Keshav's friend, Broome Wilson. Page 425 From The Harmony of Virtue (Written by Sri Aurobindo at the age of eighteen. The quotations are from Book III.) W. I believe you are right. Ke. And must... should not on any account be turned into the staple diet for the readers' nourishment; it may then very well lead to aesthetic nausea. We feel tempted to quote here the significant remarks that Prof. K. Subrahmanian has made on the ticklish subject of the proper use of idioms: "Idioms should be used judiciously. Idioms are like sweets. We enjoy eating sweets occasionally. We can't live on... Victory to Sri Aurobindo who is the very Ocean of Rasa! Au revoirl REFERENCES N.B. For what the abbreviations stand for please consult Bibliography on page 439. 1.Vide Prof. K. Subrahmanian's column "Know Your English" in The Hindu, 2. SAC, 3. C-Compl, 4. FW, pp. 5. Ibid., p. 6. LD., 7. Syn., p. 8. EG, p. 9. LY, ...
... 114,294, 535 Wedgewood, Colonel, 530 Wells, H.G., 511 Whitehead, A. N., 441 Whitman, Walt, 78, 615 Who, 161 Wilson, Horace Hayman, 13 Wilson, Margaret Woodrow (Nishta), 577 Wilson, President Woodrow, 413 Wingfield-Stratford, Esme, 13 Witch of Ilni. The, 119,152-53 Woodroffe, Sir John, 491 Wordsworth, William... 208-9; on the boycott of 16 Oct., 210; letters to Mrinalini, 213-15,235,265; the "three frenzies", 213ff; on "Mother India", 214; his mahavrata, 214; at Benaras Congress, 216; at Barisal Conference, 217; Prof. at National College, 218; in charge of Bande Mataram, 221ff; on the "Life of Nationalism", 223ff; on Dadabhai and Tilak, 226-7; on Passive Resistance, 229ff, 282-3, 362; on use of violence, 230,283; ...
... 202,239-240 see also World War I, II waste, 198,199,215 West, 25, 88 red evening of, 157 see also Europe Western civilization, 24 (fn), 41 , 42 , 56, 59,77-81, 114 , 127 -128, 140, 157 ,216 Wilson, H. H., 97(fn) woman, 102, 181, 185 in ancient India , 119 in politics, 181 her status with regard to man, 90 her subjection, 138 World War I, 124, 125 ,216 World War II , 211 , 238·239 Sri... 248 revolution, 37, 38 , 110 era of, 140 -141 spiritual, 129 Rig-Veda, see under Veda Rishis, 26, 49, 89, 98({11), 116, 12 1, 158 Rolland, Roma in, 193 Rome (ancient), 80 , 119, 137 Ro th, Prof. von, 116 Roy, Motilal, 105 Rudra , 123, 144 Russel , Bertrand, 193 Russia , 193, 225 , 252 Russia ns, 176, 2 17 S samata , 206 Samurai, 29 , 44 Sanaana dharma, 49-50, 5 1, 69 , 93 ...
... 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 Wilson, President Woodrow 398 Wordsworth, William 5-6, 111, 484, 514 World Union 573, 685-6, 755 Wretched of the Earth, The 773 Yogic Sadhan 91 Yoga Sutras 192 Younghusband... 136, 164, 230, 273ff, 282, 342, 357, 372, 377-8, 398-400, 408, 427, 437-8, 443-4, 489-92, 494, 505, 590, 676, 691, 816, 818 Page 915 Nishikanta Roychoudhury 230 Nishtha (Margaret Wilson) 321, 398, 589 Nivedita 49 Nolini Kanta Gupta 78, 86, 91, 131, 196-7, 201, 203, 210-1, 217-8, 233-5, 246, 255, 263, 283, 297, 327-8, 340, 430, 435, 451, 494, 496, 534, 578, 595, 639, 691, 724... 288, 417, 507, 538, 624, 689, 709, 733, 747, 797, 817 Suvrata (Mme Yvonne Gaebele) 321, 418 Syed Mehdi Imam 617 Page 923 Tagore, Rabindranath 5, 175, 183, 262, 582 Tan Yun-shan, Prof 532 Tandon, Purushottamdas 226 Tara Jauhar 691, 710 Tea Ceremony 194-5, 287-8, 319, 321 Teilhard de Chardin 732 Teresa, Saint 38, 62, 129 Teresa, Mother 552 Théon, Alma 21-5 ...
... with all that is natural and humanistic; at moments even transgressing into the mystic; into "a business more than nature/ Was ever conduct of," piercing for the moment into the referend beyond; Wilson Knight even attributing to him the vision in Nature of a striving after inevitable perfection, and Murry the vision of a super (divine) man emerging. Sri Aurobindo's poetic "cosmos" has all this... Eclogues even foreseeing: The ages' mighty march begins anew... Now from high heaven descends a wondrous race — 1 The Oxford Professor of Poetry Mr. Mackail's observation cited by Prof. Gilbert Murray in his The Rise of the Greek Epic, Oxford, 1934, pp. 254-55. Page 468 is yet on the whole far too narrow. Sri Aurobindo's cosmic vision is beyond Virgil's ...
... mentioned: (a) Metaphor (e.g., planetary model of the Bohr atom); (b) Metonymy (e.g., the presence of electrons inferred from measurements effected in a Geiger Counter or from the traces they leave in the Wilson Cloud Chamber). But in their very nature, analogies cannot offer guaranteed truth; and as the front of scientific research recedes farther and farther from the base-line of sense-perception... state of inner preparedness to receive the Light of the New Manifestation. Explanation in Science We speak of science and we speak of logic; but, as has been justly pointed out by Prof. Robert Lenoble, the purely verbal stability of these two words and the consequent prestige which they acquire in the minds of the uninformed create a great prejudice in favour of the personage (!)... Hilbertian phase space, or of 4-dimensional space at each point determinate in terms of quadri-dimensional metric tensor, etc. - is it physics, or meta-physics? geometry, or meta-geometry? (Has not Prof. J. Clay styled modern physics as meta-physiology? 17 In fact, all these modern theories are pure metaphysical speculations; their concepts lack visibility, palpability and any possibility of ...
... 1882) Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1955 Page 619 Whithead, R. B., In Numismatic Chronicle, Sixth Chronicle, Sixth Series, III Wilson, H. H., The Vishnu Purāna: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (London, 1840) Xenophon, Anabasis Cyropaedia Page 620 INDEX ... Mortimer, iii, 393 Whitehead, R. S., 264 Whitney, 107 Wijesinha,L.C.,34,36 Wikremasinghe, 33,34,35 Wilford, Colonel, 105 Williams Jackson, A. V., 465fn. Wilson, H. H., 165 Winternitz, 568 Xandrames,65, 114-8, 154, 155. 157,159,160, 161,175-200,204. 232,527 Xenophon: Cyropaedia, 55, 351, 465,467,483,484 Xerxes, 250,281... Heritage of India (Sri Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta, 1958), Vol.I Aitareya Brāhmana, IV, V, VII, VIII Aiyangar, K. V. Rangaswami, "The Samavartana of Snana (The end of Studentship)", Prof. K. V. Rangaswami Aiyangar Commemoration Volume (Madras, 1940) Aiyangar, S. Krishnaswami, "Studies in Gupta History", Journal of Indian History, VI, Supplement, Madras. Hindu India ...
... Page 330 rejected on account of the Riding Examination. It may be well to enquire of Mr William Chawner, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, (who in June last succeeded Sir Roland Wilson as Secretary to the Board of Indian Civil Service Studies at Cambridge) how Mr Ghose conducted himself at the University previous to his Final Examination. This suggestion is made because Mr... for 1865. St. Stephen's Avenue seems to have been built after 1866. yours faithfully, sd.T Darlington, Archivist and Librarian. Page 348 3. H. J. W. Wilson, A. L. A. Metropolitan Borough of Paddington, Central Public Library, Porchester Road, W. 2 29th December, 1955. In reply to your letter to the Town Clerk, of 19th December... Lloyd Ellis, but we have no further information about it. Buses 7, 7A, 28, 31 and 46 pass along Chepstow Road, W. 2, which is crossed by St. Stephen's Gardens. Yours sincerely, sd. H.J.W. Wilson, Librarian. 4. The Royal Borough of Kensington, Public Libraries and Leighton House, Chief Librarian H. G. Massey, A.L.A,, A.M.A., 17th January, 1956. Cromwell ...
... Svāyambhuva. When he was born, says the Vayu Purāna, 4 he stood equipped with bow, arrows 1. Ibid., p. 271. 2. Cultural History from the Vayu Purāna (Poona, 1946), pp. 28, 163. 3. Wilson, op.cit.. XIII, p. 101. 4.Patil. op. cit.. p. 163. Page 83 and a shining armour. After his consecration he proceeded to vanquish the earth because he found her devoid of... Rāja." Then Cunningham refers to the legendary events after the death of Prithu's father Vena: "On his death Prithu performed the Śrad- 1. Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, p. 399. 2.Wilson, op. cit., p. 489. 3."Social and Economic Conditions", The Vedic Age, p. 460. 4."Traditional History...", ibid., p. 271. 5. The Ancient Geography of India, by A. Cunningham... the calf, milked the Earth and received the milk into his own hand, for the benefit of mankind. Thence proceeded all kinds of corn and vegetable upon which people.subsist now and perpetually." H. H. Wilson 4 has a footnote on the phrase about Svāyambhuva: "by the 'calf, or Manu in that character, is typified, the commentator observes, the promoter of the multiplication of progeny." Whatever the explanation ...
... Sri Aurobindo wrote the following passage on a separate page of the manuscript used for this essay. He did not mark its place of insertion: That accomplished scholar & litterateur Prof Wilson in introducing the Vicramorvaseum to English readers, is at pains to inform them that in the "mad scene" of this play they must not expect the sublime madness of King Lear, but a much tamer affair ...
... Pravīra - that is, beyond the hitter's own reign-span - and all of them ruled as petty kings (viceroys) in 1. The Vishnu Purāna: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition, translated by 11.11. Wilson (London. 1840). p. 477. 2.The Kilakilas are still unidentified. The word "Yavana", which our historians love to equate mostly with "Greek", cannot here signify this, for Vindhyaśakti, their principal... 2. Ibid., 3.See also Sarasvati-kanthabharana, III.2,34. (Shrava's footnote) Page 20 i.e., in the form of Śaka-nrpa-atīta and of Sarhvatsara (60 years Jovian cycle). Prof. D.C. Sircar translates this passage as 'the expired year of the Śaka kings and the (regnal) year'. 1 This translation is not warranted by the words of Mitāksharā. The words can only convey the... situation in regard to the earliest available Tamil records: the caverinscriptions in the Brāhmī script. R. Venkatraman 2 reports: "The dating of these Tamil Brāhmī inscriptions remains controversial. Prof. T. V. Mahalingam was the first to suggest a system of staggered dates for them, which ranged from the 3rd century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. I. Mahadevan suggested a modified staggered dating, ranging ...
... biologists, states in Cell and Psyche: "It is not the character of the constituents of a living thing but the relations between them which are most significant. An organism is an organized system." E.B. Wilson, a famous worker in the same field, declares in The Cell in Development and Inheritance: "We cannot hope to comprehend the activities of the living cell by analysis merely of its chemical composition... s are on material that presents the greatest difficulties for decision. Most of the embryologists with whom I discussed this matter were content to treat her case as unproven and still open, though Prof. Polezhaiev believes that he has found similar processes occurring in regenerating tissues of amphibia." Page 225 About the experiments on the amino-acids, a reviewer of Albert Ducroqc's ...
... introducing Parasāra's hymns to Agni (1,65-73), admits: "They are generally difficult, and not seldom unintelligible." Similarly, he has a footnote at the beginning of hymn 4,58: 352 "It is, as Professor Wilson observes, 'a good specimen of Vaidik vagueness, and mystification, and of the straits to which commentators are put to extract an intelligible meaning from the text.'" No doubt, the difficulty of some... and commentators has resulted from a failure to grasp the luminous thread of mystic significance, often couched in symbols, which underlies the apparent jumble of words and images. What Professor Wilson termed 'mystification' is revealed, once the right clue is found, as true mysticism of the highest order. 353 Undoubtedly, in the Rigveda, a religious ritual is present with the sacrificial... power with wise purifications, / Robing himself in light, the life of waters, he spreads abroad his high and perfect glories. / He sought heaven's Mighty Ones, the 353.Rigveda 4,58, on which Wilson passed the comment quoted above, is a good example of a hymn where only the mystical interpretation is convincing. See Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, pp. 97-101. 354. Ibid., p. 61. ...
... Yavanas as a tribe did not stand out in our Gupta times and if the Greeks were not yet known as Yavanas, what 1. The Vishnu Purāna: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition, translated by H. H. Wilson (London, 1940), p. 477. 2.Sircar, "The Deccan after the Sātavāhanas", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 219. 3. A New History..., p. 21. 4. The Ancient Geography of India (1924), p.... the year 41 points to a date considerably later than Augustus Caesar who died in A.D. 14". 1 But we may answer in the words of S. K. Dikshit: 2 "As to the title of this Kanishka (II), both Prof. Luders and Dr. Sten Konow read it as '[Kajisara', of which the first letter is supposed to be doubtful and can be acutally only conjecturally read. In this connection Mr. N. G. Majumdar states: 'An ...
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