This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF INDIA. PART I. THE HINDU PANTHEON. The arts of India are the illustration of the religious life of the Hindus, as that life was already organised in full perfection under the Code of Manu, B.C. 900-300. Although some of the freshness of its Vedic morning was then already lost, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF INDIA. PART I. THE HINDU PANTHEON. The arts of India are the illustration of the religious life of the Hindus, as that life was already organised in full perfection under the Code of Manu, B.C. 900-300. Although some of the freshness of its Vedic morning was then already lost, it is life still in its first religious and heroic stage, as we find it painted in the Ramayana and Mahabharata; and we owe its preservation, through the past three thousand years, from change and decay, chiefly to the Code of Manu. The principles of government embodied in this book were probably first reduced to their present form about B.C. 300, as a defence of the priestly polity of the Brahmans against the Buddhist revolution, by which it was threatened from about B.C. 543, the date of the death of Gautama Buddha, to the sixth and seventh centuries of our era. So securely was the sacerdotal state system of the Brahmanical Hindus fixed by the Code of Manu that even the foreign invasions and conquests to which they have been constantly subjected from the seventh century B.c. have left the life and arts of India essentially the same as we find them in the B Ramayana and Mahabharata, and in the writings of the Greek officers of Alexander, Seleucus and the Ptolemies, by which they were first made known to the Western nations. The intimate absorption of Hindu life in the unseen realities of man's spiritual consciousness is seldom sufficiently acknowledged by Europeans, and indeed cannot be fully comprehended by men whose belief in the supernatural has been destroyed by the prevailing material ideas of modern society. Every thought, word, and deed of the Hindus belongs to the world of the unseen as well as of the seen; and nothing shews this...
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