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The Indian Song of Songs-- Introduction. Hymn to Vishnu. Sarga the First--The Sports of Krishna. Sarga the Second--The Penitence of Krishna. Sarga the Third--Krishna Troubled. Sarga the Fourth--Krishna Cheered. Sarga the Fifth--The Longings of Krishna. Sarga the Sixth--Krishna made Bolder. Sarga the Seventh--Krishna supposed False. Sarga the Eighth--The Rebuking of Krishna. Sarga the Ninth--The End of Krishna's Trial. Sarga the Tenth--Krishna in Paradise. Sarga the Eleventh--The Union of Radha and Krishna.
Miscellaneous Oriental Poems-- The Rajpoot Wife. King Saladin. The Caliph's Draught. Hindoo Funeral Song. Song of the Serpent Charmers. Song of the Flour-Mill. Taza ba Taza. The Mussulman Paradise. Dedication of a Poem from the Sanskrit. The Rajah's Ride.
Two Books from "The Iliad of India." The Great Journey. The Entry into Heaven.
The Night of Slaughter.
The Morning Prayer.
Proverbial Wisdom from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Third Edition. Post 8vo, pp. viii.-464, cloth, price 16s.
THE SNKHYA APHORISMS OF KAPILA, With Illustrative Extracts from the Commentaries.
Translated by J. R. BALLANTYNE, LL.D., late Principal of the Benares College.
Edited by FITZEDWARD HALL.
Fourth Edition. Post 8vo, cloth, pp. xxiv.-310, price 16s.
THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA.
BY A. BARTH, Member of the Soci?t? Asiatique of Paris.
Authorised translation by Rev. J. Wood, Edin.
India has not only preserved for us in her Vedas the most ancient and complete documents for the study of the old religious beliefs founded on nature-worship, which, in an extremely remote past, were common to all the branches of the Indo-European family; she is also the only country where these beliefs, in spite of many changes both in form and fortune, continue to subsist up to the present time. Whilst everywhere else they have been either as good as extinguished by monotheistic religions of foreign origin, in some instances without leaving behind them a single direct and authentic trace of their presence, or abruptly cut short in their evolution and forced to survive within the barriers, henceforth immovable, of a petty Church, as in the case of Parseeism,--in India alone they present up to this time, as a rich and varied literature attests, a continuous, self-determined development, in the course of which, instead of contracting, they have continued to enlarge their borders. It is owing in a great measure to this extraordinary longevity that such an interest attaches to the separate and independent study of the Hindu religions, irrespective altogether of the estimate we may form of their dogmatic or practical worth. Nowhere else do we meet with circumstances, on the whole, so favourable for the study of the successive transformations and destiny, so to speak, of a polytheistic idea of the universe.
Post 8vo, cloth. pp. cviii.-242 and viii.-370. Two volumes, price 24s.
BUDDHIST RECORDS OF THE WESTERN WORLD.
The progress which has been made in our knowledge of Northern Buddhism during the last few years is due very considerably to the discovery of the Buddhist literature of China. This literature contains, amongst other valuable works, the records of the travels of various Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India during the early centuries of our era. These records embody the testimony of independent eyewitnesses as to the facts related in them, and having been faithfully preserved and allotted a place in the collection of the sacred book of the country, their evidence is entirely trustworthy.
In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. xii.-336 and x.-352, cloth, price 21s.
MEDIAEVAL RESEARCHES FROM EASTERN ASIATIC SOURCES.
FRAGMENTS TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN ASIA FROM THE THIRTEENTH TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
BY E. BRETSCHNEIDER, M.D., Formerly Physician of the Russian Legation at Pekin.
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE
The subjects dealt with in the two volumes form a carefully revised and improved edition of three essays gathered into one collection, viz.:-- 1. Notes on Chinese Mediaeval Travellers to the West, 1875. 2. Notices of the Mediaeval Geography and History of Central and Western Asia, 1876. 3. Chinese Intercourse with the Countries of Central and Western Asia during the Fifteenth Century, 1877.
Since the first publication of these papers, large additions have been made to the stock of our knowledge regarding the regions of Central Asia which, previously to the Russian occupation of these tracts, had been inaccessible to scientific exploration. Thus new light has been thrown upon many interesting geographical questions suggested by the narratives of mediaeval travellers, or hitherto based only upon more modern but vague and dubious Chinese accounts.
To bring the new edition of those former researches up to the present advanced state of knowledge on the subject, I had to study a vast amount of literature, written for the greater part in Russian, which has come to light, on Central Asia, and was obliged to read through a great number of works and papers, some of them published in Russian Turkestan, and, therefore, difficult to obtain. In general, all reading accessible to me bearing on the subject has been made use of for the elucidation of mediaeval geographical questions arising out of my researches.
Post 8vo, pp. xii.-164, cloth, price 10s. 6d.
THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON ,
KING OF ASSYRIA, B.C. 681-668.
BY E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., Litt.D., D.Lit., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum.
Post 8vo, pp. xlviii.-398, cloth, price 12s.
THE ORDINANCES OF MANU.
Completed and Edited by E. W. HOPKINS, Ph.D., of Columbia College, N.Y.
Third Edition. Post 8vo, cloth, pp. vi.-216, price 6s.
THE BHAGAVAD GT; or, THE SACRED LAY. A SANSKRIT PHILOSOPHICAL POEM.
Translated, with Notes,
BY JOHN DAVIES, M.A. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of the Cambridge Philological Society, &c., and Rector of Walsoken, Norfolk.
In preparing this translation of the Bhagavad Gt, the author had before him the Greek translation of Galanos, and the Italian version of Stanislao Gatti, both supplied by Dr. Reinhold Rost. The author also consulted the French version of Burnouf, the Latin version of Lassen, and the English versions of Mr. Thomson and K. T. Telang. The notes of Lassen have given valuable aid, as well as a paper on the Bhagavad Gt, read before the "Akademie der Weissenschaften" of Berlin in 1826 by W. van Humboldt, which contained a scholarly review of the doctrines contained in the poem. The author has also consulted a MS. copy of the Commentary on the Bhagavad Gt, written by rdhara, and, by the kindness of Dr. Rost, another commentary, attributed to ankara, but written by ankara Ananda Saraswati , and called Ttparya Bodhin.
Second Edition. Post 8vo, cloth, pp. viii.-152, price 6s.
HINDU PHILOSOPHY.
THE SNKHYA KRIK OF WARA KRISHNA.
An Exposition of the System of Kapila, with an Appendix on the Nyya and Vaieshika Systems.
BY JOHN DAVIES, M.A. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of the Cambridge Philological Society, &c., and Rector of Walsoken, Norfolk.
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE.
I wish to present to my readers the philosophy of Kapila as it has been set forth by his Indian exponent, wara Krishna. The system of Kapila, called the Snkhya or Rationalistic, in its original form, and in its theistic development by Patarijali, contains nearly all that India has produced in the department of pure philosophy. Other systems, though classed as philosophic, are mainly devoted to logic and physical science, or to an exposition of the Vedas.
The system of Kapila may be said to have only an historical value, but on this account alone it is interesting as a chapter in the history of the human mind. It is the earliest attempt on record to give an answer, from reason alone, to the mysterious questions which arise in every thoughtful mind about the origin of the world, the nature and relations of man, and his future destiny. It is interesting also and instructive to note how often the human mind moves in a circle. The latest German philosophy, the system of Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann, is mainly a reproduction of the philosophic system of Kapila in its materialistic part, presented in a more elaborate form, but on the same fundamental lines. In this respect the human intellect has gone over the same ground that it occupied more than two thousand years ago, but on a more important question it has taken a step in retreat. Kapila recognised fully the existence of a soul in man, forming indeed his proper nature--the absolute ego of Fichte--distinct from matter and immortal; but our latest philosophy, both here and in Germany, can see in man only a highly developed physical organisation. "All external things," says Kapila, "were formed that the soul might know itself and be free." "The study of psychology is vain," says Schopenhauer, "for there is no Psyche."
Post 8vo, pp. 432, cloth, price 16s.
A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND LITERATURE.
BY JOHN DOWSON, M.R.A.S., Late Professor of Hindustani, Staff College.
Revised Edition in Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. xxx.-390; xiv.-364, cloth, price 21s.
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