Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

[70] Cours de l’Histoire de Philosophie, I. 200 (Paris, 1829); quoted by Hardwick, I. 211.

[71] Karika, 8.  “It is owing to the subtilty of Nature ... that it is not apprehended by the senses.”

[72] Karika, 19.

[73] Karika, 58, 62, 63, 68.

[74] Quoted from the Lalita Vistara in Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy.  By Rev. R. M. Banerjea.  London:  Williams and Nordgate, 1861.

[75] Muir, Sanskrit Texts, Part IV. p. 253.

[76] Journal Am.  Orient.  Soc., III. 318.

[77] Even in the grammatical forms of the Sanskrit verb, this threefold tendency of thought is indicated.  It has an active, passive, and middle voice (like that of the cognate Greek), and the reflex action of its middle voice corresponds to the Restorer or Preserver.

[78] See Colebrooke, Lassen, &c.

[79] Lassen, I. 838; II. 446.

[80] See Muir, Sanskrit Texts, Part IV. p. 136.

[81] Lassen, Ind.  Alterthum, I. 357.

[82] Max Mueller, Sanskrit Lit., 37.

[83] Ibid., p. 46.

[84] Ind.  Alterthum, I. 483-499.  Mueller, Sanskrit Lit., 62, note.

[85] As of the Atheist in the Ramayana, Javali, who advises Rama to disobey his dead father’s commands, on the ground that the dead are nothing.

[86] Preface to the Vischnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson.  London, 1864.

[87] Duncker, Geschichte, &c., II. 318.

[88] Preface to his English translation of the Vischnu Purana.

[89] Translated by E. Burnouf into French.

[90] The Ramayana, &c., by Monier Williams Baden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford.

[91] Preface to the translation of the Vischnu Purana, by H. H. Wilson.

[92] Kesson, “The Cross and the Dragon” (London, 1854), quoted by Hardwick.

[93] See Note to Chap.  II. on the Nestorian inscription in China.

[94] Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, p. 67.

[95] Hardy, Eastern Monachism, p. 224.  Fergusson, p. 9.

[96] Fergusson, p. 10.  Cunningham, Bhilsa Topes of India.

[97] Upham, Sacred and Historical Books of Ceylon.

[98] Here are a few of the guesses:—­

Cunningham, Bhilsa Topes. 
Christians                                            270 millions. 
Buddhist                                              222    "
Hassel, Penny Cyclopaedia. 
Christians                                            120 millions. 
Jews                                                    4    "
Mohammedans                                           252    "
Brahmans                                              111    "
Buddhists                                             315    "
Johnston, Physical Atlas. 
Christians                                            301 millions. 
Jews                                                    5    "

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