The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha
by E. B. Cowell | 1882 | 102,190 words | ISBN-13: 9788174791962
The Sarva-darsana-samgraha (English translation) of Madhava Acharya is a compendium of different philosophical schools of Hindu thought and Pancadasi, an important text in the Advaita Vedanta tradition. Full title: Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha or Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha: Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy (author Mādhava Ācārya)...
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THE INDIAN EMPIRE:
ITS PEOPLE, HISTORY, AND PRODUCTS.
By the Hon. Sir W. W. Hunter, K.C.S.I., C.S.I., C.I.E., LL.D.,
Member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council,
Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India.
Being a Revised Edition, brought up to date, and incorporating the general results of the Census of 1881.
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ESSAYS ON THE SACRED LANGUAGE, WRITINGS,
AND RELIGION OF THE PARSIS.
By Martin Haug, Ph.D.,
Late of the Universities of Tübingen, Göttingen, and Bonn; Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies, and Professor of Sanskrit in the Poona College.
Edited and Enlarged by Dr. E. W. West.
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II. Languages of the Parsi Scriptures.
III. The Zend-Avesta, or the Scripture of the Parsis.
IV. The Zoroastrian Religion, as to its Origin and Development.
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TEXTS FROM THE BUDDHIST CANON
COMMONLY KNOWN AS "DHAMMAPADA."
With Accompanying Narratives.
Translated from the Chinese by S. BEAL, B.A., Professor of Chinese, University College, London.
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THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE.
By Albrecht Weber.
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A SKETCH OF THE MODERN LANGUAGES OF THE EAST INDIES.
By Robert N. Cust.
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THE BIRTH OF THE WAR-GOD.
A Poem. By Kalidasa.
Translated from the Sanskrit into English Verse by
Ralph T. H. Griffith, M.A.
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A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY
AND RELIGION, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND
LITERATURE.
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MODERN INDIA AND THE INDIANS,
BEING A SERIES OF IMPRESSIONS, NOTES, AND ESSAYS.
By Monier Williams, D.C.L.,
Hon. LL.D. of the University of Calcutta, Hon. Member of the Bombay Asiatic Society,
Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford.
Third Edition, revised and augmented by considerable Additions,
with Illustrations and a Map.
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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM SANSKRIT WRITERS.
With an Introduction, many Prose Versions, and Parallel Passages from
Classical Authors.
By J. Muir, C.I.E., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D.
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THE GULISTAN;
Or, Rose Garden of Shekh Mushliu'd-din Sadi of Shiraz.
Translated for the First Time into Prose and Verse, with an
Introductory Preface, and a Life of the Author, from the Atish Kadah,
By Edward B. Eastwick, C.B., M.A., F.R.S., M.R.A.S.
"It is a very fair rendering of the original."—Times.
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MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS RELATING TO INDIAN SUBJECTS.
By Brian Houghton Hodgson, Esq., F.R.S.,
Late of the Bengal Civil Service; Corresponding Member of the Institute;
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; late British Minister at the Court of Nepal, &c., &c.
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
Section I.—On the Kocch, Bódó, and Dhimāl Tribes.—Part I. Vocabulary.—Part II. Grammar.—Part III. Their Origin, Location, Numbers, Creed, Customs, Character, and Condition, with a General Description of the Climate they dwell in—Appendix.
Section II.—On Himalayan Ethnology.—I. Comparative Vocabulary of the Languages of the Broken Tribes of Népāl.—II. Vocabulary of the Dialects of the Kiranti Language.—III. Grammatical Analysis of the Vāyu Language. The Vāyu Grammar.—IV. Analysis of the Bāhing Dialect of the Kiranti language. The Bāhing Grammar.—V. On the Vāyu or Hāyu Tribe of the Central Himalāya.—VI. On the Kiranti Tribe of the Central Himalāya.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
Section III.—On the Aborigines of North-Eastern India. Comparative Vocabulary of the Tibetan, Bódó, and Gāró Tongues.
Section IV.—Aborigines of the North-Eastern Frontier.
Section V.—Aborigines of the Eastern Frontier.
Section VI.—The Indo-Chinese Borderers, and their connection with the Himalayans and Tibetans. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Arakan. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Tenasserim.
Section VII.—The Mongolian Affinities of the Caucasians.—Comparison and Analysis of Caucasian and Mongolian Words.
Section VIII.—Physical Type of Tibetans.
Section IX.—The Aborigines of Central India.—Comparative Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Languages of Central India.—Aborigines of the Eastern Ghats.—Vocabulary of some of the Dialects of the Hill and Wandering Tribes in the Northern Sircars.—Aborigines of the Nilgiris, with Remarks on their Affinities.—Supplement to the Nilgirian Vocabularies.—The Aborigines of Southern India and Ceylon.
Section X.—Route of Nepalese Mission to Pekin, with Remarks on the Water-Shed and Plateau of Tibet.
Section XI.—Route from Kāthmāndū, the Capital of Nepâl, to Darjeeling in Sikim.—Memorandum relative to the Seven Cosis of Nepâl.
Section XII.—Some Accounts of the Systems of Law and Police as recognised in the State of Nepâl.
Section XIII.—The Native Method of making the Paper denominated Hindustan, Népālese.
Section XIV.—Pre-eminence of the Vernaculars; or, the Anglicists Answered; Being Letters on the Education of the People of India.
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THE LIFE OR LEGEND OF GAUDAMA,
THE BUDDHA OF THE BURMESE. With Annotations.
The Ways to Neibban, and Notice on the Phongyies or Burmese Monks.
By the Right Rev. P. Bigandet,
Bishop of Ramatha, Vicar-Apostolic of Ava and Pegu.
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CHINESE BUDDHISM.
A VOLUME OF SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.
By J. Edkins, D.D.
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LINGUISTIC AND ORIENTAL ESSAYS.
Written from the Year 1846 to 1878.
By Robert Needham Cust,
Late Member of Her Majesty's Indian Civil Service;
Hon. Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society; and
Author of "The Modern Languages of the East Indies."
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BUDDHIST BIRTH STORIES; or, Jataka Tales.
The Oldest Collection of Folk-lore Extant:
BEING THE JATAKATTHAVANNANA,
For the first time Edited in the original Pāli.
By V. Fausboll;
And Translated by T. W. Rhys Davids.
Translation. Volume I.
"These are tales supposed to have been told by the Buddha of what he had seen and heard in his previous births. They are probably the nearest representatives of the original Aryan stories from which sprang the folk-lore of Europe as well as India. The introduction contains a most interesting disquisition on the migrations of these fables, tracing their reappearance in the various groups of folk-lore legends. Among other old friends, we meet with a version of the Judgment of Solomon."—Times.
"It is now some years since Mr. Rhys Davids asserted his right to be heard on this subject by his able article on Buddhism in the new edition of the 'Encyclopædia Britannica.'"—Leeds Mercury.
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A TALMUDIC MISCELLANY;
Or, A THOUSAND AND ONE EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD, THE MIDRASHIM, AND THE KABBALAH.
Compiled and Translated by PAUL ISAAC HERSHON, Author of "Genesis According to the Talmud," &c.
With Notes and Copious Indexes.
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"Will convey to English readers a more complete and truthful notion of the Talmud than any other work that has yet appeared."—Daily News.
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"Mr. Hershon has ... thus given English readers what is, we believe, a fair set of specimens which they can test for themselves."—The Record.
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THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE.
By Basil Hall Chamberlain, Author of "Yeigo Heñkaku Shirañ."
"A very curious volume. The author has manifestly devoted much labour to the task of studying the poetical literature of the Japanese, and rendering characteristic specimens into English verse."—Daily News.
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THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib),
KING OF ASSYRIA, b.c. 681-668.
Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection; together with a Grammatical Analysis of each Word, Explanations of the Ideographs by Extracts from the Bi-Lingual Syllabaries, and List of Eponyms, &c.
By Ernest A. Budge, B.A., M.R.A.S., Assyrian Exhibitioner, Christ's College, Cambridge.
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THE MESNEVI
(Usually known as The Mesneviyi Sherif, or Holy Mesnevi) OF MEVLANA (OUR LORD) JELALU 'D-DIN MUHAMMED ER-RUMI.
Book the First.
Together with some Account of the Life and Acts of the Author, of his Ancestors, and of his Descendants.
Illustrated by a Selection of Characteristic Anecdotes, as Collected by their Historian,
Mevlana Shemsu-'D-Din Ahmed, el Eflaki, el 'Arifi.
Translated, and the Poetry Versified, in English,
By James W. Redhouse, M.R.A.S., &c.
"A complete treasury of occult Oriental lore."—Saturday Review.
"This book will be a very valuable help to the reader ignorant of Persia, who is desirous of obtaining an insight into a very important department of the literature extant in that language."—Tablet.
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EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS
Illustrating Old Truths.
By Rev. J. Long,
Member of the Bengal Asiatic Society, F.R.G.S.
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"Altogether, it is quite a feast of good things."—Globe.
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INDIAN POETRY;
Containing a New Edition of the "Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanscrit of the "Gita Govinda" of Jayadeva; Two Books from "The Iliad of India" (Mahabharata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.
By Edwin Arnold, C.S.I., Author of "The Light of Asia."
"In this new volume of Messrs. Trübner's Oriental Series, Mr. Edwin Arnold does good service by illustrating, through the medium of his musical English melodies, the power of Indian poetry to stir European emotions. The 'Indian Song of Songs' is not unknown to scholars. Mr. Arnold will have introduced it among popular English poems. Nothing could be more graceful and delicate than the shades by which Krishna is portrayed in the gradual process of being weaned by the love of
'Beautiful Radha, jasmine-bosomed Radha,'
from the allurements of the forest nymphs, in whom the five senses are typified."—Times.
"No other English poet has ever thrown his genius and his art so thoroughly into the work of translating Eastern ideas as Mr. Arnold has done in his splendid paraphrases of language contained in these mighty epics."—Daily Telegraph.
"The poem abounds with imagery of Eastern luxuriousness and sensuousness; the air seems laden with the spicy odours of the tropics, and the verse has a richness and a melody sufficient to captivate the senses of the dullest."—Standard.
"The translator, while producing a very enjoyable poem, has adhered with tolerable fidelity to the original text."—Overland Mail.
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THE MIND OF MENCIUS;
Or, POLITICAL ECONOMY FOUNDED UPON MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
A Systematic Digest of the Doctrines of the Chinese Philosopher Mencius.
Translated from the Original Text and Classified, with Comments and Explanations,
By the Rev. Ernst Faber, Rhenish Mission Society.
Translated from the German, with Additional Notes,
By the Rev. A. B. Hutchinson, C.M.S., Church Mission, Hong Kong.
"Mr. Faber is already well known in the field of Chinese studies by his digest of the doctrines of Confucius. The value of this work will be perceived when it is remembered that at no time since relations commenced between China and the West has the former been so powerful—we had almost said aggressive—as now. For those who will give it careful study, Mr. Faber's work is one of the most valuable of the excellent series to which it belongs."—Nature.
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THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA.
By A. Barth.
Translated from the French with the authority and assistance of the Author.
The author has, at the request of the publishers, considerably enlarged the work for the translator, and has added the literature of the subject to date; the translation may, therefore, be looked upon as an equivalent of a new and improved edition of the original.
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"This volume is a reproduction, with corrections and additions, of an article contributed by the learned author two years ago to the 'Encyclopédie des Sciences Religieuses.' It attracted much notice when it first appeared, and is generally admitted to present the best summary extant of the vast subject with which it deals."—Tablet.
"This is not only on the whole the best but the only manual of the religions of India, apart from Buddhism, which we have in English. The present work ... shows not only great knowledge of the facts and power of clear exposition, but also great insight into the inner history and the deeper meaning of the great religion, for it is in reality only one, which it proposes to describe."—Modern Review.
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HINDU PHILOSOPHY.
The SĀnkhya KĀrika Of Is'wara Krishna.
An Exposition of the System of Kapila, with an Appendix on the Nyāya and Vais'eshika Systems.
By John Davies, M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.A.S.
The system of Kapila contains nearly all that India has produced in the department of pure philosophy.
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THE ORDINANCES OF MANU.
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III.—Substance of a Letter to the Court of Directors from Mr. John Jesse, dated July 20, 1775, at Borneo Proper.
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XXXVI.—On the Local and Relative Geology of Singapore. By J. R. Logan.
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XXXIX.—On the Flat-Horned Taurine Cattle of S.E. Asia. By E. Blyth.
XL.—Note, by Major-General G. B. Tremenheere.
General Index.
Index of Vernacular Terms.
Index of Zoological Genera and Sub-Genera occurring in Vol. II.
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THE SATAKAS OF BHARTRIHARI.
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MASNAVI I MA' NAVI:
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MANAVA-DHARMA-CASTRA: THE CODE OF MANU.
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THE LIFE OF HIUEN TSIANG.
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