Journal of the Department of Letters, Volume 10

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Calcutta University Press, 1923
Contains contributions on various subjects, notably India, Buddhism, ancient chronology, etc.
 

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Page 178 - ... but even preserves the random order in which vowels and consonants are jumbled up as they were in the Greek adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3000 years ago.
Page 91 - This you did not do. And if any of these have done any Wrong to his Neighbours by Word or Deed, so that the Congregation be thereby offended, the Curate shall advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table, until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented.
Page 183 - One (man) indeed seeing Speech has not seen her ; another (man) hearing her has not heard her ; but to another she delivers her person as a loving wife well-attired presents herself to her husband.3 5.
Page 91 - And if any of those be an open and notorious evil liver, or have done any wrong to his neighbours by word or deed, so that the Congregation be thereby offended ; the Curate, having knowledge thereof, shall call him, and advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table, until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented and amended his former naughty life...
Page 55 - He is unfriendly to the Arabs, still he acknowledges that the king of the Arabs is the greatest of kings. Among the princes of India there is no greater foe of the Muhammadan faith than he. His territories form a tongue of land. He has great riches, and his camels and horses are numerous. Exchanges are carried on in his states with silver (and gold) in dust, and there are said to be mines (of these metals) in the country. There is no country in India more safe from robbers.
Page 23 - We must distinguish in the first place between the ' formal ' and the ' material ' sources of the law. A formal source is that from which a rule of law derives its force and validity. It is that from which the authority of the law proceeds. The material sources, on the other hand, are those from which is derived the matter, not the validity of the law.
Page 79 - The learned translators go on to say : " That it should have been left in is a striking proof of the faithfulness with which the Patimokkha has been preserved. Is it a survival of some form of word older even than the Patimokkha ? Or is it merely an ancient blunder?
Page 26 - The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment of adjudication.
Page 22 - AD 783-784, when there were reigning, — in various directions determined with reference to a town named Vardhamanapura, which is to be identified with the modern Wadhwan in the Jhalavad division of Kathiawar, — in the north, Indrayudha ; in the south Srivallabha ; in the east, Vatsaraja, king of Avanti (Ujjain) ; and, in the west, Varaha or Jayavaraha, in the territory of the Sauryas.
Page 41 - in fear vanished nobody knew whither, so that even in a dream he might not see...

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