Edward C. Sachau

Alberuni's India (eBook, ePUB)

An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India: Volume II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is Volume X of eleven in a collection of India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1910, this is the second part of an account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of Alberuni's India about A.D. 1030.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136383922
• Artikelnr.: 39449633

Autorenporträt

Edward C. Sachau Professor in the Royal University of Berlin, and Principal of the Seminary for Oriental Languages; member of the Royal Academy of Berlin, and Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Vienna, Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of G1·eat Britain and Ireland, London and of tbe American Oriental Society, Cambridge, U.S.A.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1. ON THE HINDUS IN GENERAL, AS AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR ACCOUNT OF
THEM. CHAPTER II. ON THE BELIEF OF THE HINDUS IN GOD. CHAPTER III. ON THE
HINDU BELIEF AS TO CREATED THINGS, BOTH INTELLIGIBII,IA AND SENSIBILIA.
CHAPTER IV. FROM WHAT CAUSE ACTION ORIGINATES, AND HO'V THE SOUL IS
CONNECTED WITH MATTER. CHAPTER V. ON THE STATE OF THE SOULS, AND THEIR
MIGRATIONS THROUGH THE WORLD IN THE METEMPSYCHOSIS. CHAPTER VI. ON 'THE
DIFFERENT WORLDS, AND ON THE PLACES OF RETRIBUTION IN PARADISE AND HELL.
CHAPTER VII. ON THD NATURE ON THE LIBERATION FROM THE WORLD, AND ON THE
PATH LEADING THERETO. CHAPTER VIII. ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF CREATED
BEINGS, AND ON THEIR NAMES. CHAPTER IX. ON THE CASTES, CALLED COLOURS
(VAR~A), AND ON THE CLASSES BELOW THEM. CHAPTER X. ON THE SOURCE OF THEIR
RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL LAW,' ON PROPHETS, AND ON THE QUESTION WHE'THER SINGLE
LAWS CAN BE ABROGATED OR NOT. CHAPTER XI. ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF
IDOL-WORSHIP, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IDOLS. CHAPTER XII. ON
THE VEDA, THE PUR.A~AS, AND OTHER KINDS OF THEIR NATIONAL LITERATURE.
CHAPTER XIII. THEIR GRAMMATICAL AND METRICAL LITERATURE.CHAPTER XIV. HINDU
LITERATURE IN THE OTHER SCIENCES-ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, ETC.CHAPTER XV.
NOTES ON HINDU METROLOGY, INTENDED TO FACILITATE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALL
KINDS OF MEASUREMENTS WHICH OCCUR IN THIS BOOK. CHAPTER XVI. NOTES ON THE
WR~TING O~ THE HINDUS, ON THEIR ARITH[1]METIC AND RELATED SUBJEC'l'S, AND
ON CERTAIN STRANGE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THEIRS. CHAPTER XVII. ON HINDU
SCIENCES WHICH PREY ON THE IGNORANCE OF PEOPLE.CHAPTER XVIII. VARIOUS NOTES
ON THEIR COUNTRY, THEIR RIVERS, AND THEIR OCEAN-ITINERARIES OF THE
DISTANCES BETWEEN THEIR SEVERAL KINGDOMS, AND BETWEEN THE BOUNDARIES OF
THEIR COUNTRY. Part Contents/