The History of India from the Earliest Ages, 46. osa,1. köide

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Trübner, 1867
 

Contents

Comparison of ancient and modern personifications
28
Súdras
32
CHAPTER I
42
Womens apartments
43
Selfsacrifice of Mádrí on the funeral pile of her husband
45
Foundation of the great Raj of Bhárata by Raja Bhárata
48
3rd Legend of Raja Vichitravírya
54
The myth proved to be an interpolation by the supernatural
60
Efforts of the Brahmanical compilers to represent Drona as
77
Ancient and modern condition of the Bhíls
83
Galleries adorned with flags and garlands PAGE
86
Historical significance of the change
92
Review of the foregoing myth Its incredibility
95
Familiar to the age when the Bráhmans persecuted
103
Life of the Pandavas in the jungle
104
Description of the hideous Asura Hidimba and his beautiful
109
Life of the Pandavas as mendicant Bráhmans in the city
110
Review of the foregoing legends of Devayání
114
The city of Kámpilya
119
Vyása appears and is received with great reverence
126
tion
132
Review of the foregoing tradition
134
Councilhall
137
CHAPTER V
138
Memory of the incident preserved in a later myth
140
Myth introduced to cover the tradition of Krishnas criminal
153
4 Jealous wrath of Duryodhana
172
Morning of the gambling match
178
Duryodhana sends his servant to bring Draupadi to
180
Unpardonable nature of the affront which had been put upon
186
Practises the use of arms in the heaven of Indra
192
Jayadratha carries away Draupadí in his chariot by main force
200
Draupadí enters the presence of the Rání
207
Kitchen
209
Draupadi escapes from the house and runs to the Councilhall
213
Explains how Yudhishthira has in every case prohibited
214
Yudhishthira praises the valour of the music and dancing
223
Review of the foregoing legend
226
Leading characters in the tradition of the amour
227
Country of Viráta identified with Dinajpur
233
Bhíma serving as cook
235
CHAPTER X
241
I agree with Drupada but wish
245
Sanjaya delivers his messages to the Maharaja
256
Krishnas visit to Duryodhana
260
Advice of Krishna to Duryodhana
266
Mythical references to Krishna
271
Appointment of signs and watchwords
277
Gross outrages committed by Duhsásana and Duryodhana
279
4th Rules agreed to on both sides for ameliorating the horrors
283
Brahmanical origin of the rules
284
Brahmanical discourses
290
Final combat between Duryodhana and Bhíma prefaced by
293
Introduced to harmonize with the speeches they are said to have
299
Thirteenth day of the war and third of Dronas command
310
Bhíma fights Drona until sunrise
316
Krishna suggests a prevarication
322
Arjuna taunted by Yudhishthira
326
Extraordinary counsel of Krishna that Bhíma should strike
344
Aswattháma escapes with the heads of the five sons of
350
Want of family sympathy on the part of the Brahmanical
360
Burning of the remaining bodies PAGE
365
Review of the foregoing narrative
372
Three incidents during the period
439
Review of the foregoing narrative
441
Death of Vasudeva
450
PART III
457
Migration of the Yádavas from Mathurá to Dwáraká
459
Churning day in the house of Nanda and Yasodá
465
Flight of the Hot Season
466
Portentous dreams of Kansa
472
Three Hindú traditions referring to three different epochs PAGE
478
Nala remonstrates
484
Wrath of Kali at finding that Nala was chosen
485
Nala takes service with Rituparna Raja of Ayodhya under
491
cooked
498
The Brahmans a professional class officiating for both Aryans
509
Mythical detail representing the Yádavas as descendants
510
Sarmishthá obeys
515
Significant expression in the story of Sarmishthú of
519
Sports of the daughter of the Minister and daughter of
528
The succession of games 179
533
Tragic end of the Minister
534
Review of the foregoing legend of the thirteenth year
535
Alleged breach of the law by Arjuna
536
Greek conception of the Sun god
537
Termination of the war and triumph of the Pandavas
538
Exaggerated slaughter
539
Character of the battle
540
Sixteenth day of the war and first of Karnas command
541
Affecting meeting of Draupadi and Kuntí
542
51
543
Importance of the question from the general tendency
544
Review of the foregoing story of Chandrahasa and Bikya
545
126
546
སྶཋདེཋདེཋ ཋཧྨཛཱ ཋསྤྱིཊྛཱནཱིཝཾ ཋཛཛ ཤྲུཊྛཾ ཛ ུ ཋཛཛ ཀྱྀཛཋ ༩ རྒྱུ
547
Pleasant encampment
548
180
549
2nd Education of the Kauravas and Pándavas by Drona
550
97
551
The Maharaja summons the Rání Gándhárí into the Council
552
Maharaja Dhritarashtra directs Drona to make preparations
553
232
554
Jarasandha Raja of Magadhá makes war against Mathurá
555
Born of a fishgirl named Matsya in Eastern Bengal
557
Their interview with the three surviving warriors of
558
Origin of the myth
559
Encouraged by Krishna 447
560
Exaggerations and embellishments of the Kshatriya bards
561
Narrative reverts from fiction to authentic tradition
562
Prominent part taken by the Scythic Nágas in the history
563
Extraordinary plot of the Kauravas to burn the Pandavas
564
Omission in the tradition of all reference to the clearing of
565
A Bráhman proclaims the merit of beholding Krishna
566
Absence of allusions to animal sacrifice in the description
567
The Kauravas said to have ascended to the heaven of Indra
568
Significance of the tradition rendered perceptible by eliminat
569
Beautiful wives of the Serpents
570
Pavilions for the suitors
571
Water a purifier and a household necessity
572
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573
Pleasure of gratified revenge as displayed in the dying hour
574
Grace and majesty of Yudhishthira
575
Grand entry into the city of Hastinapur 369
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