The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

ADDENDA.

Page 154, note 3:  Add to (RV.) x. 173, AV. vi. 88.

Page 327, third line from the top:  Read Buddhaghosha.  According to Chalmers, as quoted by T.W.  Rhys Davids in his recent lectures, traces of mysticism are found in some of the early texts (as yet unpublished).  The fact that the canonical P[=a]li books know nothing of the controversy (involving the modification of traditional rules) of the second council gives a terminus to the canon.  Senart, on the other hand, thinks that the vague language of the Acoka inscriptions precludes the fixing of the canon at so early a date.

Page 340, note 4:  The gods here are priests.  The real meaning seems to be that the Brahman priests, who were regarded as gods, have been put to naught in being reduced to their true estate.  Compare Senart, (revised) Inscriptions de Piyadasi, third chapter.  Acoka dismissed the Brahman priests that his father had maintained, and substituted Buddhist monks.

Page 436, note 2:  From B[=e]r[=u]n[=i] it would appear that the Gupta and Valabh[=i] eras were identical (319-20 A.D).  See Fleet, Indian Antiquary, xvii. 245.  Many scholars now assign Kum[=a]rila to the eighth century rather than to the end of the seventh.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY.[1]

GENERAL WORKS.

#Journals#:  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Soctety (JRAS.);[2] Journal of the German Oriental Society (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft, ZDMG.); Journal Asiatique (JA.); Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS.); Branch-Journals of the JRAS.; Calcutta Review; Madras Journal; Indian Antiquary (IA.).  Some of the articles in the defunct Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde des Morgenlandes (ZKM.), and in the old Asiatick Researches (AR.) are still worth reading.  Besides these, the most important modern journals are the transactions of the royal Austrian, Bavarian, Prussian, and Saxon Academies, the Museon and the Revue de l’histoire des religions.  Occasional articles bearing on India’s religions or mythology will be found in the American Journal of Philology (AJP.); the Wiener Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM.); the Babylonian and Oriental Record (BOR.); Kuehn’s Zeitschrift fuer vergleichende Sprachforschuhg (KZ.); Bezzenberger’s Beitraege (BB.); and the Indogermanische Forschungen (IF.).

#Histories, studies, etc.#:  Prinsep, Essays (Indian Antiquities); Lassen, Indische Alterthumskunde.  Histories of India by Elphinstone (religious material, chapters iv book i, and iv book ii), by Elliot, by Marshman (complements Elphinstone), and by Wheeler (unreliable); The Rulers of India; Hunter’s Indian Empire and Brief History.  Mill’s excellent History of India is somewhat prejudiced.  Dutt’s History of Civilization in Ancient India is praise-worthy (1890).  Invaluable are the great descriptive Archaeological

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