Rantideva biography of william hill
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INDIAN IDYLLS
from the Sanscrit
OF
THE MAHÂBHÂRATA
BY
EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.I.
AUTHOR OF "THE LIGHT OF ASIA," ETC.
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
This is the only American Edition of Mr. Arnold's
INDIAN IDYLLS which is published with his sanction.Printers
S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTOX, U. S. A.
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
With Affection and Respect
TO
THE REV. W. H. CHANNING
WHOSE LEARNING AND VIRTUES ADD HONOR TO A NAME
ALREADY RENDERED ILLUSTRIOUS
Some time ago I wrote and published, in a paper entitled "The Iliad and Odyssey of India," the following passages:-
The present volume contains such translation, as have from time to time made out of this prodigious epic, which is seven-fold greater in bulk than the Illiad and Odyssey taken together. All the stories here extracted are new to English literature, with the exception of a few passages of the Sâvitrî and the "Nala and Damayanti," which was long ago most faithfully rendered by Dean Milman, the version being published side by side with a clear and excellent Sanskrit text edited by Professor Monier Williams, C. I. E. But that presentation of the beautiful and brilliant legend - with all its conspicuous merits - seems better adapted to aid the student than adequatel
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Ancient India in a New Light
PART ONE
The Challenge of India's Traditional Chronology
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The chronology of ancient India, as determined by modern historians, diverges completely from the chronology framed by India herself for her own antiquity. The complete divergence applies not only to very remote occurrences like the Bh&#;rata War: it applies also to comparatively late ones like the rule of the Imperial Guptas. Could India be utterly at fault about historical time? Surely, here is an issue of capital importance - and. as if to rivet our attention on it, it becomes crucial apropos of the very point that brought modern historians their moment of "Eureka!"
The Problem of the Two Chandraguptas
Modern historians were convinced of a systematic start in their studies when the Frenchman de Guignes and the Englishman Sir William Jones1 independently proposed a known historical original for the Indian king whose name had been mentioned in a Greek form by foreign writers on India soon after the invasion of the Punj&#;b by Alexander the Great in B.C. Outstanding among these writers was Megasthenes, the ambassador sent to India in c B.C. by Seleucus Nicator, the chief successor of Alexander in the East. He came to the court of the king whom the Greeks called Sandrocot
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THE FREETHINKER'S TEXT-BOOK.
PART II.
CHRISTIANITY:
ITS EVIDENCES.
ITS ORIGIN.
ITS MORALITY.
Spoil HISTORY.
BY ANNIE BESANT.
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SECTION I.—ITS EVIDENCES UNRELIABLE.
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