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Literary Remains of Professor Theodore Goldst Cker Volume 1-2

Literary Remains of Professor Theodore Goldst Cker Volume 1-2

Goldstcker, Theodor

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150568607
ISBN13: 9781150568602
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... taken by Arun'a (the ruddy), whom the epic poems and the Puran'as make the son of the patriarch Kas'yapa and his wife Vinata, and the younger brother of Garud'a, the bird-vehicle of Vishn'u. According to the Mahdbhdrata, he was appointed by the gods to the office of charioteer of the sun, in order to intercept his fiery heat, when the sun, angry with the gods for being exposed to the enmity of Rahu, it was feared, would consume the world. Where represented, Arun'a is therefore seated before the sun on his chariot, driving his horses; but as the legends deprive him of his legs, his body is seen perfect to his knees. VAIS'ESHIKA. Vais'eshika is the name of one of the two great divisions of the Nydya (q. v.) school of Hindu philosophy, and probably a later development of the Nyaya itself, properly so called, with which it agrees in its analytical method of treating the subjects of human research, but from which it diners in the arrangement of its topics, and more especially by its doctrine of atomic individualities or vis'eshas--whence its name is derived. The topics or categories (paddrthas) under which Kan'dda, the founder of this system, arranges his subject-matter, are the following six: (1) substance, (2) quality, (3) action, (4) generality, (5) atomic individuality, and (6) co-inherence; and later writers of his school add to these a seventh category, viz., non-existence. 1. Substance is the intimate cause of au aggregate effect; it is that in which qualities abide, and in which action takes place. It is ninefold, viz., earth, water, light, air, ether, time, space, soul, and manas, or the organ of affection. 2. Quality is united with substance; it comprises the following 24: colour, savour, odour, feel, number, dimension, severalty, conjunction, disjunc...

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