Journal of the Department of Letters, Volume 10

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

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Page 97 - 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 185 - 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 97 - 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 57 - 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 27 - 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 43 - in fear vanished nobody knew whither, so that even in a dream he might not see...
Page 99 - Yavakivan ca bhikkhave bhikkhu arannakesu senasanesu sapekha bhavissanti, vuddhi yeva bhikkhave bhikkhunam patikankha no parihani " (so long as the Bhikkhus delight in forest-seats, so long they may be expected not to decline, but to prosper). The eremitical ideal indicated here — a life of solitude and hardship — is that set forth in the so-called four...
Page 24 - The translation would then be as follows : " in the east, the illustrious king of Avanti ; in the west king Vatsaraja (and) in the territory of the Sauryas, the victorious and brave Varaha.
Page 16 - Mahi, and so show the extent of the Gurjara territory in the neighbourhood of the coast ; inland it doubtless extended to the Ghats.
Page 7 - I am," says he with commendable humility, " like one who has met with individuals who have visited some Terra Incognita, and are able to describe it ; they have placed before me their stores of information, and I have sifted them with all the acumen I possess ; and the result of my searches are embodied in these pages. But they who study the original canon may be regarded as actually entering the land, and winning here and there a portion of territory, more or...

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