Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, المجلد 6Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1841 Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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Abú Allahabad amongst ancient antiquity appear Arabic Arrian As-o-ko Asiatic Society Asoko Baní bo-tree Brahmans Buddha Buddhist Buddhist priests called Canton caste caves Ceylon chaitya character China Chinese coins death Deva Deva Nagari doctrines dynasty East ecclesiastics Emperor existence Fa hian fact Greek Gujarat Gupta gymnosophists heretics hian hian's Hindu Hiuan thsang honour India Indra inhabitants inscription James Prinsep Jámi Kanouj king kingdom Klaproth language Magadha Mahawanso mentioned Menu miles modern monasteries mountains notice origin Ougein Pali passage period Persian pillars present princes Prinsep probably Professor Wilson province Puranas Raja Ramayana Rashid al Dín reign religion religious Remusat respect river Robert Sherley Royal Asiatic Society sacred Sakya Sanskrit Sanskrit language says seventh century Sir Anthony Siva supposed temple tion tope translation tribe Vedas Vishnu Vishnu Purana volume worship written δὲ καὶ οἱ τὸν τῶν بن
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الصفحة 370 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
الصفحة 242 - It is difficult to comprehend how men, not assisted by revelation, could have soared so high, and approached so near to the truth.' ' Besides the five great commandments not to kill, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, not to get drunk, every shade of vice, hypocrisy, anger, pride, suspicion, greediness, gossiping, cruelty to animals, is guarded against by special precepts.
الصفحة 147 - It is not to be supposed, however, that any reduction can be effected in the transport duties. The Chinese are unlikely to grant privileges to foreigners, which necessarily entail a loss on themselves ; and if no saving be made in the duties, then the carriage of the same quantity of woollens (five-sixths) would not amount to one-third of the carriage of tea from Fo-kien1.
الصفحة 44 - Elizabeth, who said, that as a virtuous woman ought to look on none but her husband, so a subject ought not to cast his eyes on any other sovereign than him God had set over him. " I will not," said she, " have my sheep marked with a strange brand ; nor suffer them to follow the pipe of a strange shepherd*.
الصفحة 56 - Turkic ; and then he asked me if I would serve him ; I answered him in regard I was a subject in his countrey I must be at his command, yett I was loth to leave my ould master in regard he lov'd me well ; at which wordes the Kinge did take me about the necke and kissed me three or four times, and sayd, I doe highly commend thy constancie ; neverthelesse I will intreat my brother thy lord...
الصفحة 374 - giver of poison," and a "suborner of perjury," that Brahmans would have gone to sea. May not the interdict be fairly considered the consequence of the practice? and this would date the Institutes of Menu after the fourth century ! The last indication of modernism that occurs to me is the mention of the Puranas; and in the same verse, the heroic poems (although not by name) are referred to, which would give a date to Menu 1 From his high birth alone a Brahman is an object of veneration, EVEN TO DEITIES;...
الصفحة 383 - It is highly probable that, of the present popular forms of the Hindu religion, none assumed their actual state earlier than the time of Sankara Acharya, the great Saiva reformer, who flourished, in all likelihood, in the eighth or ninth century.
الصفحة 60 - I do hold him to be a great prophet, yea, the greatest that ever was; and I do think, verily, that if any man could forgive sins, it was he; for I have read that he did great miracles when he was upon...
الصفحة 120 - ... unchanging outer cover of long, coarse hair, between the roots of which comes in winter an undercoat of downy wool that is naturally thrown off in spring or is carefully combed out for use. A remarkably fine species of this breed exists throughout the area to which the white-haired goat...
الصفحة 275 - I will perspicuously set forth the visits of Buddho to Ceylon; the arrival of the relic and of the Bo-tree; the histories of the convocations; and of the sophisms of the Theros; the introduction of the religion [of Buddho] into the island ; and the settlement and pedigree of the sovereign [Wijayo]. It will be evident from the substance of the quotations here made, that the numerical extent of the dynasties [in my work] is exclusively derived from that source — [it is no invention of mine]. " Thus...