Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, כרך 14

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Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1882
Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society.
 

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עמוד 36 - Ancient Geography of India," p. 447, observes that " in the time of Buddha the Vregis or Waggis were divided into several clans, as the Lichhavis, the Vardehis, and the Tirabhuktis. The exact number of their clans would appear to have been eight, as criminals were arranged before the eight clans, or a jury composed of one member from each of the separate divisions of the tribe.
עמוד 296 - THE sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains — Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns? Is not the Vision He ? tho...
עמוד 755 - But if we take away these explanations and commentaries attributed to king Wan, the duke of A'au, and Confucius, we take away the whole Yi. There remain only the linear figures attributed to Fu-hsi, without any lists of characters, long or short, without a single written character of any kind whatever. The projectors have been misled somehow about the contents of the...
עמוד 770 - No. 3), which represent the first division or development of the Yin and Yang from Unity or the Ultimate Principle. According to the Chinese belief, these eight figures, together with the sixty-four combinations to which they are extended (see below), accompanied by certain presumptive explanations attributed to Fuh-hi, were the basis of an ancient system of philosophy and divination during the centuries preceding the era of Wen Wang...
עמוד 650 - I am Xerxes the great king, the king of kings, the king of the provinces with many languages, the king of this great earth far and near, son of king Darius the Achamenian.
עמוד 218 - IIQ and sepulchral mounds like the Stennis stones in Orkney, like Abury, like Stonehenge ? I think this question must be answered in the affirmative for the following reasons : — 1. The Western Aryas, the Norsemen, Goths, etc., invariably used the stone circles and the sepulchral mound (haug) for worship and also for burial. 2. In many parts of India these circles and mounds are still used by sections of the Hindoos, as an interesting set of papers by Dr. Stevenson in the AS Journal has shown.
עמוד 35 - Tree and Serpent Worship," 2nd Edition. By S. Beal, Prof of Chinese, London University.— On the present state of Mongolian Researches. By Prof. B. Julg, in a Letter to R.
עמוד 754 - January of this year. He there says that the joint translation ' deals only with the oldest part of the book, the short lists of characters which follow each of the sixty-four headings, and leaves entirely aside the explanations and commentaries attributed to Wen Wang, A'au Kung, Confucius, and others, from 1200 BC downwards, which are commonly embodied as an integral part of the classic...
עמוד 335 - ... Indian alphabet demonstrate its independence of all foreign origin," and that "it may confidently be urged that all probabilities and inferences are in favour of an independent invention." The Southern Indian alphabet, the oldest form of which we possess in the Maurya and Andhra periods (Nanaghat, Nasik, Karli and Amaravati inscriptions) no doubt comes before us as a fully developed system about 300 BC and is accompanied both in certain Maurya and in certain Andhra inscriptions by an equally...

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