Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 332
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175362057
Description
In the following work a first attempt has been made to describe ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the point of view, not so much of the Brahmin, as of the rajput. The two points of view naturally differ very much.
Priest and noble in India have always worked very well together so long as the question at issue did not touch their own rival claims as against one another. When it did- and it did so especially during the period referred to –the harmony, as will be evident from the following pages, was not a great phase.
Contents
CHAPTER-1
The Kings
CHAPTER-2
The Clans and Nations
CHAPTER-3
The Village
CHAPTER-4
Social Grades
CHAPTER-5
In the Town
CHAPTER-6
Economic Conditions
CHAPTER-7
Writings-The Beginnings
CHAPTER-8
Writings-Its Development
CHAPTER-9
Language and Literature-I General View
CHAPTER-10
Literature- II The Pali Books
CHAPTER-11
The Jataka Book
CHAPTER-12
Religion-Animism
CHAPTER-13
Religion-The Brahmin Position
CHAPTER-14
Chandragupta
CHAPTER-15
Ashoka
CHAPTER-16
Kanishka
APPENDIX
INDEX