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
FRIAR Jordanus, opinion of Hindu character, 75.
FUNERAL ceremonies, 248;
an earlier worship, 252;
striking coincidences, 253;
burial and cremation, 253.
G.
GAINAS, language of, 97.
GALILEO, his theory, 135.
GANGES, sources of, 96;
its tributaries, 187.
GÂTAKA, 30.
GÂTHÂS, 107.
GAUTAMA allows a lie, 88.
GERMANY, study of Sanskrit in, 22.
GEMS, the nine, 114.
GILL, Rev. W., myths and songs of the South Pacific, 169;
savage life in Polynesia, 233.
GODS in the Veda, their testimony for truth, 83;
the number of, 164;
river gods and goddesses, 167;
made and unmade by men, 182;
growth of a divine conception in the human mind, 198.
GOLDEN RULE, the, 92.
GOETHE'S West-östlicher Divan, 22.
GOKULAJI, the model native statesman, 271.
GRASSMAN, translation of Sanskrit words, 183.
GREEK alphabet, age of, 221.
GREEK literature, its study and use, 23;
when first written, 222.
GREEK deities, their physical origin, 129.
GREEK philosophy our model, 38.
GREEK and Latin, similarity between, 40.
GRIMM, identification of Parganya and Perûn, 210.
GROWTH of ancient religions, 128.
GRUNAU on old Prussian gods, 210.
GUIDE-BOOKS, Greek, 223.
GYMNOSOPHISTS, Indian, 123.
H.
HARDY, his Manual of Buddhism, 97.
HASTINGS, Warren, and the Darics, 216;
opinion of Hindu character, 79.
HEBREW religion, foreign influences in, 145.
HEBER, Bishop, opinion of the Hindus, 79.
HEAVEN and Earth, 169;
Mâori legend of, 173;
Vedic legends of, 175;
Greek legends of, 176;
epithets for, in Veda, 178;
as seen by Vedic poets, 178.
HENOTHEISM, 166.
HERODOTUS, 223.
HINDUS, truthful character of, 52;
the charge of their untruthfulness refuted, 53;
origin of the charge, 54;
different races and characteristics of, 55;
testimony of trustworthy witnesses, 55;
their litigiousness, 60;
their treatment by Mohammedan conquerors, 72;
reason for unfavorable opinion of, 76;
their commercial honor, 82;
their real character transcendent, 126;
their religion, 127;
sacrifices and priestly rites, 148;
knowledge of astronomy, 153;
first acquainted with an alphabet, 224.
HINDUSTANI, 95.
HIRANYAGHARBA, 164.
HISTORY, its object and study, 34;
its true sense, 44.
HITOPADESA, fables of, 110.
HOTTENTOT river names, 188.
HOMERIC HYMNS, 140;
heaven and earth in the, 176.
HUMAN Mind, study of, India important for, 33.
HUMBOLDT Alexander von, on Kâlidâsa, 110.
HYDASPES, 192.
HYDRAOTIS, or Hyarotis, 191.
HYPASIS, or Hyphasis, 191.
I.
IDÂ, 156.
IDRISI, on the Hindus, 74.
IJJAR, April-May, 158.
INDIA, what it can teach us, 19;
a paradise, 24;
its literature a corrective, 24;
past and present aspects of, 25;
its scientific treasures, 25;
a laboratory for all students, 32;
its population and vast extent, 142.
INDRA, god of the wind, the Vedic Jupiter, 83;
the Aryan guide, 116;
the god of the thunderstorm, 168;
as creator, 180;
the principal god of the Veda, 198;
peculiar to India, 201.
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