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.
[Footnote 29:  Compare on the Culvas[=u]tras, Thibaut, J.A.  Beng. xliv. p. 227; Von Schroeder, Pythagoras und die Inder; Literatur und Cultur, p. 718 ff, who also cites Cantor, Geschichte der Mathematik, p. 540, and refutes the possibility, suggested by the latter, of the loan being from Greece to India on the ground that the Culvas[=u]tra are too old to belong to the Alexandrine period, and too essentlal a part of the religious literature to have been borrowed; and also on the ground that they are not an addition to the Cr[=a]utas[=u]tra, but they make an independent portion (p. 721, note).]

     [Footnote 30:  Compare Garbe (loc. cit. below), and his
     S[=a][.m]khya Philosophic, p. 94.]

[Footnote 31:  This view is not one universally accepted by Sanskrit scholars.  See, for instance, Weber, Die Griechen in Indien.  But to us the minute resemblance appears too striking to be accidental.]

     [Footnote 32:  Lassen, and Weber, Indische Skizzen, p. 91.]

     [Footnote 33:  Garbe, in a recent number of the Monist,
     where is given a resume of the relations between Greek and
     Hindu philosophical thought.]

     [Footnote 34:  Weber, loc. cit.]

[Footnote 35:  The existence of a soul (spirit) in man is always assumed in the Upanishads.  In the pantheistic system (the completed Ved[=a]nta) the verity of traditional belief is also assumed.  The latter assumption is made, too, though not in so pronounced a manner, in the Upanishads.]

     [Footnote 36:  The Upanishad philosopher sought only to save
     his life, but the Buddhist, to lose it.]

[Footnote 37:  This is not a negative ‘non-injury’ kindness.  It is a love ‘far-reaching, all*pervading’ (above, p. 333).  The Buddhist is no Stoic save in the stoicism with which he looks forward to his own end.  Rhys Davids has suggested that the popularity of Tibet Buddhism in distinction from Southern Buddhism may have been due to the greater weight laid by the former on altruism.  For, while the earlier Buddhist strives chiefly for his own perfection, the spiritualist of the North affects greater love for his kind, and becomes wise to save others.  The former is content to be an Arhat; the latter desires to be a Bodhisat, ’teacher of the law’ (Hibbert Lectures, p. 254).  We think, however, that the latter’s success with the vulgar was the result rather of his own greater mental vulgarity and animism.]
[Footnote 38:  Hurst’s Indika, chap.  XLIX, referring to India Christiana of 1721, and the correspondence between Mather and Ziegenbalg, who was then a missionary in India.  The wealthy ‘young men’ who contributed were, in Hurst’s opinion, Harvard students.]
[Footnote 39:  The Portuguese landed in Calcutta in 1498.  They were driven out
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