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By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

ISBN-10: 0691017786

ISBN-13: 9780691017785

This ebook translates for the Western brain the major motifs of India's legend, delusion, and folklore, taken at once from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian artwork. it really is basically an advent to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian artwork and concept, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of existence and dying recognizable now not in basic terms as Oriental yet as common elements.

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It is the secret that smites with an ax the tree of worldly vanity, hews away its roots, and scatters its crown. This secret is a lamp to those groping in ignorance. This secret lies buried in the wisdom of the ages, and is rarely revealed even to saints. ” The boy smiled and sank into silence. Indra regarded him, unable to move. “O Son of a Brahmin,” the king pleaded presently, with a new and visible humility, “I do not know who you are. You would seem to be Wisdom Incarnate. ” Thus requested to teach, the boy opened to the god the hidden wisdom.

India—as Life brooding on itself—thinks of the problem of time in periods comparable to those of our astronomy, geology, and paleontology. India thinks of time and of herself, that is to say, in biological terms, terms of the species, not of the ephemeral ego. The latter becomes old: the former is old, and therewith eternally young. We of the West on the other hand, regard world history as a biography of mankind, and in particular of Occidental Man, whom we estimate to be the most consequential member of the family.

16. C. See p. 92. 17. D. ) See p. 110. 18. D. ) See p. 97. 19. C. (Indian Museum, Calcutta. ) See pp. 69, 70. 20. Prajñāpāramitā; Java, c. ) See p. 98. 21–23. C. ) See p. 94. 24. C. ) See p. 96. 25. C. ) See pp. 96, 126. 26. D. ) See p. 105. 27. D. ) See pp. 63, 112, 117 ff. 28. Bhagīratha at Gokarna; detail from the above. ) See pp. 63, 117. 29. D. See pp. 127, 146. 30. D. ) See pp. 128, 130. 31. D. See p. 131. 32. Shiva-trinity and Host; Parel (near Bombay), c. D. ) See p. 132. 33. D. See pp.

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