India: What can it teach us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of CambridgeMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Philosophy
India: What can it teach us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
India; Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism; Vedas
BHAGAVADGÎTÂ, 272.
BHAGAVAT, supreme lord, 272.
BIMETALLIC currency, 37.
BHÎSHMA, death of, 83.
BIBLE, the, Sanskrit words in, 28;
and the Jewish race, 140.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL survey of India, 102.
BOOKS read by ancient nations compared with modern, 137.
BOPP, his comparative grammar, 46.
BRAHMA sacrifice, 249.
BRAHMA Samâj, of india, 163.
BRÂHMANA, 162.
BRÂHMANAS, on truth, 84;
as a class, 256.
BUDDHA and the popular dialects, 96.
BUDDHISM, chief source of our fables, 27;
striking coincidences with Christianity, 108;
its rise, 234.
BURNOUF, 115.
C.
CABUL river, 192.
CÆSAR, on the Druids and their memorizing, 233.
CANAAN, 140.
CARLYLE, his opinion of historical works, 16.
CASTE, origin of, 117;
in the laws of Manu, 117;
in the Rig-Veda, 117.
CAT, the domestic, its original home, 42.
CHINA, origin of the name, 151;
chronicles of, 104;
lunar stations of, 150;
aspects of religion, 264.
CHRISTIAN religion, the, and the Jewish race, 35.
CIVIL service examinations, Indian, 20.
CLIMATIC influences on morals and social life, 120.
COINS of India, 26.
COLEBROOKE'S religious ceremonies, 247.
COMMERCIAL honor in India, 82.
COMMERCE between India and Syria in Solomon's time, 28.
COMMERCIAL writing, 225.
CONFUCIUS, a hard student, 230.
CONQUERORS of India, 30.
COULANGES, Professor, his opinion on religious beliefs, 245.
CUNNINGHAM'S Ancient Geography of India, 192.
CYLINDERS of Babylon, 139.
D.
DACOITS, 79.
DARWIN, 141.
DAWN, the, 173.
DAYÂNANDA'S introduction to the Rig-Veda, 104.
DELUGE, the, 153;
in Hindu literature, 154;
not borrowed from the Old Testament, 157;
its natural origin, 159.
DEPARTED spirits, 237;
honors paid to, 240;
ceremonies to, 246.
DEVA, 159;
the meaning of, 236.
DEVAPATNÎS, wives of the gods, 164.
DEVÂPI'S prayer for rain, 204.
DEVELOPMENT of human character in India and Europe, 118.
DIALECTS in Asoka's time, 106.
DIPHTHERA, 222.
DIVI Manes, 240.
DONKEY, in the lion's skin, 27;
in the tiger's skin, 28.
DRUIDS, their memory, 233.
DYAUS and Zeus, 213.
E.
ÊABÂNÎ, 158.
EAST, the, our original home, 49.
ECLIPTIC, Indian, 153.
EDUCATION of the human race, 107.
EDUCATION in India, by training the memory, 232.
EGYPTIAN hieroglyphics preserved in the alphabet, 36.
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart, his opinion of the Hindus, 77.
ENGLISH officers in India, 69.
ENGLISH oriental scholars, a list of, 22.
EOS and Ushas, 201.
ESTHONIAN prayer to Picker, the god of thunder, 211.
EURIPIDES, on the marriage of heaven and earth, 177.
EXAMINATIONS, work produced at, 20.
F.
FABLES, migration of, 27.
FALSEHOOD, no mortal sin, five cases of, 89.
FATHERS, Hymn to the, 241.
FINITE, the, impossible without the infinite, 126.
FIRE, names for, 41;
as a civilizer, 195;
a terrestrial deity, 195;
why worshipped, 196.
FIVE nations, the, 117.
FIVE sacrifices, religious duties, 249.
FRAVASHIS, in Persia, 240.
FREDERICK the Great, 34.
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