Asiatic Studies, Religious and SocialJ. Murray, 1899 |
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aboriginal adoration Ajmere ancient appear Asia Asiatic become Berar Bheels Brahmanism British Buddhism caste central India century CHAP Christianity circle of affinity civilisation clan common consanguinity course creeds custom deified deities descent distinct divine doctrines dominion dynasties English Euhemerus Europe European existence exogamy fact faith fetich feudal gods Government gradually groups hereditary hero Hindu Hinduism ideas influence institutions Islam Jodhpoor kinship land Mahomedan Maratha marriage Max Müller missionary Moghal empire morality Musalmán mythology myths nations native natural never non-Aryan observation Oodipoor organised origin orthodox Pantheism peculiar personages persons political polytheism popular priests primitive primogeniture province pure clan Rajpút Rajpút Chief Rajputána Rathore recognised religion religion in India religious beliefs rites rule ruler saint sect sept Sesodia social society spiritual stage supernatural superstition territory theology theory things tion tribal tribes usually Vishnu whole witch witchcraft worship
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Página 10 - ... comes over one at certain places. 6. The worship of dead relatives, and other deceased persons known in their lifetime to the worshipper. 7. The worship of persons who had a great reputation during life, or who died in some strange or notorious way—at shrines.
Página 98 - All ye as a wind shall go by, as a fire shall ye pass and be past; Ye are Gods, and behold, ye shall die, and the waves be upon you at last. In the darkness of time, in the deeps of the years, in the changes of things, Ye shall sleep as a slain man sleeps, and the world shall forget you for kings.
Página 20 - Not only does the husbandman pray to his plough, the fisher to his net,* the weaver to his loom, but the scribe adores his pen, and the banker his account books.
Página 87 - I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Página 24 - So far as I have been able to trace back the origin of the best-known minor provincial deities, they are usually men of past generations who have earned special promotion and brevet rank among disembodied ghosts by some peculiar acts or incidents of their lives or deaths.
Página 29 - ... the neighbours think it great luck to have the tomb of a holy man within their borders, and the landholders administer the shrine by manorial right. In the course of a very few years, as the recollection of the man's personality becomes misty, his origin grows mysterious, his career takes a legendary hue, his birth and death were both supernatural...
Página 9 - ... namely : — 1. The worship of mere stocks and stones, and of local configurations, which are unusual or grotesque in size, shape, or position. 2. The worship of things inanimate, which are gifted with mysterious motion. 3. The worship of animals which are feared. 4. The worship of visible things animate or inanimate which are directly or indirectly useful and profitable, or which possess any incomprehensible function or property.
Página 261 - The country is ruined by the necessity of defraying the enormous charges required to maintain the splendour of a numerous court, and to pay a large army maintained for the purpose of keeping the people in subjection. No adequate idea can be conveyed of the sufferings of that people. The cudgel and the whip compel them to incessant labour for the benefit of others ; and driven to despair by every kind of cruel treatment, their revolt or their flight is only prevented by the presence of a military...
Página 161 - ... narrow limits. The country then assumes a dim and dubious shape in the eyes of the citizens; they no longer behold it in the soil which they inhabit, for that soil is to them an inanimate clod; nor in the usages of their forefathers, which they have learned to regard as a debasing yoke; nor in religion, for of that they doubt; nor in the laws, which do not originate in their own authority; nor in the legislator, whom they fear and despise.
Página 204 - ... justifies to himself the indulgence of sitting down and casting dust on his head whenever he looks back upon the exploits of his countrymen in India — an attitude which is observed by foreigners with suspicion or impatience according to their insight into English character. Yet it would be easy to prove that one important reason why the English so rapidly conquered India was this, that the countries which fell into our hands had no nationalities, no long-seated ruling dynasties, or ancient...