Alberuni'S India de Edward C. Sachau

Alberuni'S India

Edward C. Sachau

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2015

Alberunis India - Vol.1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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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/

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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.