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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)From what I can collect regarding the Sráwacs, or laity of the Jains, they appear to be the only considerable remnant in India of the earlier Jains, or Arhatas. They follow principally the trade of Banyas, dealing in grain; ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)I Have the honour to present to the Society fac-simile engravings of two medals, which fill up a chasm in the Numismatic series of the Greek Kings of Bactria, viz. Apollodotus and Menander.
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)As connected with the subject of an essay on the Sráwacs or Jainas, read at a former meeting, I lay before the Society copies of inscriptions found by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton in South Bihar. Though not ancient, they may be ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)At the foot of Párśwanát'hás mountain (Samét Sikhar), on the Ramghur frontier, and one hundred and thirty-six miles south of Bhágalpur, are situated the temples dedicated to Párśwanát'há Iswara (the twenty-third deified ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)The sect of Jain has in the division of Nawádá in South Bihar two places of pilgrimage. One is a tank named Nakhaur, about a mile and a half north from Nawádá, and which is of no great size, extending in its greatest length ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)The writer of this paper is fully sensible how difficult it is to discover that which is studiously concealed, under the sanction of oaths, curses, and the (supposed,) impending vengeance of the gods; and how liable one ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)My attention was recently drawn to the arguments of English divines, in answer to certain physiological publications tending to materialism, in consequence of the similarity, if not the identity of some of their reasonings, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)Ching, the Foo-yuen, has issued a very long proclamation, exhorting the people, under his government, to, industry, and to the practice of all the social virtues. He states his object in eight words: it is, he says, to ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)The graphic beauty of a written language, which approaches so near to the hieroglyphic as the Chinese, where many of the characters are intended as pictures of the idea to be conveyed, where the variety of the lines, or ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)The four divisions of Hindus, viz. the Priests, Soldiers, Merchants, and Labourers, appear to have existed in every human society, at a certain stage of civilization; but in India alone have they been maintained, for several ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, while engaged in statistical researches in the provinces subject to the government of Bengal, gave attention to the antiquities of the country, as to other scientific objects, which he had the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)In the districts of Bihár and Patna the Jains are called Sráwacs. The number of this sect settled there is not great, amounting only to three hundred and fifty families; but they possess considerable wealth, having all ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)Capt. A. Gerard, from whose letters on a survey of the middle valley of the Setlej, in the year 1818, a brief sketch of the geology of that part of the Himálaya was prepared, which has been inserted in the Geological ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1827-01-01)The translations, which accompanied the Sanscrǐt inscriptions on copper presented to the Society by Major Tod, having been made through the medium of an interpreter, I have thought it right to re-examine the originals, at ...
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