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CHAPTER II
OLD INDIAN CREEDS, MODERN REFORMS, AND
THE TEACHING OF NANAK, UP TO 1539 a.d.
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The Buddhists The Brahmans and Kshattriyas Reaction of
Buddhism on victorious Brahmanism ^Latitude of orthodoxy Shankar Acharj and Saivism Monastic orders
Ramanuj and Vaishnavism The Doctrine of 'Maya' The
Muhammadan conquest The reciprocal action of Brahmanism and Muhammadanism The successive innovations
of Ramanand, Gorakhnath, Kabir, Chaitan, and Vallabh
The reformation of Nanak.
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The condition of India from remote ages
to the mdia and
of the '^^
^^l'
an episode in the history
to the fall of Rome and the ^ggtlrs
At an early period
establishment of Christianity.
the Asiatic peninsula, from the southern 'Ghats' to
Himalayan mountains, would seem to have been
colonized by a warlike sub-division of the Caucasian race, which spoke a language similar to the
ancient Medic qnd Persian, and which here and
there, near the greater rivers and the shores of.-rheBudthe ocean, formed orderly communities professing a dhists.
religion resembling the worship of Babylon and Egypt
a creed which, under varying types, is still the solace
of a large portion of mankind. 'Aryavarta', the land of
good men or believers, comprised Delhi and Lahore,
Gujrat and Bengal; but it was on the- banks of the ^^f^^^'
Upper Ganges that the latent energies of the people Kghl-^"
first received an impulse, which produced the peculiar triyas.
civilization of the Brahmans, and made a few heroic
families supreme from Arachosia to the Golden Chersonese. India illustrates the power of Darius and the
greatness of Alexander, the philosophy of Greece and
the religion of China; and while Rome was contending
with Germans and Cimbri, and yielding to Goths and
Huns, the Hindus absorbed, almost without an effort,
present
time,
world inferior
is
only
—
swarms of Scythic barbarians
:
they dispersed Sacae,^
A^'ikramajit derived his title of Sakari from his exploits
against the Sacae (Sakae). The race is still perhaps preserved
pure in the wilds of Tartary, between Yarkand and the
Mansarawar Lake, where the Sokpos called Kelmaks (Calmucs)
by the Muhammadans, continue to be dreaded by the people
i
CHAPTER II
OLD INDIAN CREEDS, MODERN REFORMS, AND
THE TEACHING OF NANAK, UP TO 1539 a.d.
—
—
The Buddhists The Brahmans and Kshattriyas Reaction of
Buddhism on victorious Brahmanism ^Latitude of orthodoxy Shankar Acharj and Saivism Monastic orders
Ramanuj and Vaishnavism The Doctrine of 'Maya' The
Muhammadan conquest The reciprocal action of Brahmanism and Muhammadanism The successive innovations
of Ramanand, Gorakhnath, Kabir, Chaitan, and Vallabh
The reformation of Nanak.
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
The condition of India from remote ages
to the mdia and
of the '^^
^^l'
an episode in the history
to the fall of Rome and the ^ggtlrs
At an early period
establishment of Christianity.
the Asiatic peninsula, from the southern 'Ghats' to
Himalayan mountains, would seem to have been
colonized by a warlike sub-division of the Caucasian race, which spoke a language similar to the
ancient Medic qnd Persian, and which here and
there, near the greater rivers and the shores of.-rheBudthe ocean, formed orderly communities professing a dhists.
religion resembling the worship of Babylon and Egypt
a creed which, under varying types, is still the solace
of a large portion of mankind. 'Aryavarta', the land of
good men or believers, comprised Delhi and Lahore,
Gujrat and Bengal; but it was on the- banks of the ^^f^^^'
Upper Ganges that the latent energies of the people Kghl-^"
first received an impulse, which produced the peculiar triyas.
civilization of the Brahmans, and made a few heroic
families supreme from Arachosia to the Golden Chersonese. India illustrates the power of Darius and the
greatness of Alexander, the philosophy of Greece and
the religion of China; and while Rome was contending
with Germans and Cimbri, and yielding to Goths and
Huns, the Hindus absorbed, almost without an effort,
present
time,
world inferior
is
only
—
swarms of Scythic barbarians
:
they dispersed Sacae,^
A^'ikramajit derived his title of Sakari from his exploits
against the Sacae (Sakae). The race is still perhaps preserved
pure in the wilds of Tartary, between Yarkand and the
Mansarawar Lake, where the Sokpos called Kelmaks (Calmucs)
by the Muhammadans, continue to be dreaded by the people
i
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