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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. IV.?HINDU CIVILISATION OF THE BRAHMANA PERIOD. (Continued from the Calcutta Review, October 1887, Page 274.) IV.?Professions and Castes. AS we drift down the history of Hindu civilisation, we notice, along with a remarkable progress in sciences and learning, an unhappy sign of social institutions being more and more crystalised into hard-and-fast rules, which gradually contracted the liberties and the free energies of the people. The boldest speculations in religion and philosophy were started by learned men at the same time, when the mass of the people were submitting to the chains of the priesthood; and as the arts of peace were carried to a high degree of excellence, the men employed in these arts surrendered all social freedom, and were bound down by unhealthy priest- imposed laws and restrictions which made further progress impossible. This is the dark side of the Hindu civilisation. Priestly supremacy threw its coils round and round the nation from its early youth, and the nation never attained that manly freedom and strength which marked the ancient nations of Europe. But the worst results of priestly supremacy were not brought about in a day. We see the dark cloud slowly forming itself at the close of the Rig-Veda period. We see it increasing in strength and volume in the Brahmana period. We shall see it casting a still gloomier shadow on the society of the Su.tra period; but it is only in the Pauranik period, that it threw an utter impenetrable gloom over a gifted but ill-fated nation. In the earlier periods, so long as the nation had the life and the strength of youth, it made repeated attempts to throw off priestly supremacy and to assert its free-born rights. The Kshatriyas made an attempt to assert themselves in the very period of whicli we are...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217453363
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 418
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217453368
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 744 gr


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