Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun / by Charles J. Stone.

  • Stone, Charles John, 1837-1886.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun / by Charles J. Stone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tamulian race of India—The Ramayana and our mediaeval romances —Advantages presented by the Monsoons for archaic commerce—Our minds cramped by the reception of Archbishop Usher’s scheme of biblical chronology ...... Pages 99-104 CHAPTER XY. Wooden forms of architecture traced by Mr. Fergusson in the sculptured cave-temples—Excavations of Ellora, and their semi-Egyptian, Classic, Gothic, later Italian, aspects in archaic work—Excavations and wall- paintings of Ajanta—Hindus as described by Megasthenes—General appearance of antiquity of Indian civilisation . . 105-110 CHAPTER XYI. The ancient city of Kalyan—Trade between Egypt and India under the Ptolemies—Lists of exports from India, as given in the Periplus, and by the Prophet Ezekiel—Buried city of Bhulabai . 111-113 CHAPTER XVII. Kalidasa’s dramas—Dialogue from “ Sacontala, or the Fatal Ring,” illus- trating the old Indian babit of drinking—Argument that if Art be modelled on Nature, India contains the suggestions for it, especially. 114-116 CHAPTER XVIII. India to be considered a continent rather than a country—That it pro- bably continued in agricultural, commercial, and literary civilisation for some 2500 years before the Mohammedan conquest—Wealth found in it by Mahmoud—Subsequent wars and peace from England. 117-120 CHAPTER XIX. The pretensions of the Brahmins to periods of vast antiquity—Their pre- sent Age (Yug), and its commencement 3000 b.c.—Their preceding Ages and astronomical cycles—Quotations from Mr. R. Mitra and Sir W. Jones as to the antiquity of the adoration of Vishnu as incarnate in Krishna—Not repugnant to the spirit of Christ’s teaching to suppose that man may have arisen gradually to the conception of the Incarna- tion—The doctrine of Regeneration Indian as well as Christian—The expression of the Divine as I am, in India. . . . 121-125