Social Conscience in Sanskrit LiteratureMotilal Banarsidass Publ., 1994 - 141 pàgines the achievement of snaskrit lliterature has been called in question by various Western and indian critics for more than a century now. According to them Brahmanism and royal patronage distorted the literature to the extent that it failed to reflect ordinary human experience or to speak to its needs. |
Continguts
THE ORIGINS OF A SECULAR LITERATURE | 1 |
THE IDEALIZATION OF LIFE AND SOCIAL | 21 |
THE CONTRIBUTION OF KASHMIR 5585 | 55 |
THE BHĀŅA AND PRAHASANA LITERATURE 8798 | 87 |
DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT IN THE SUBHĀṢITA | 99 |
THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE | 119 |
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Pàgina x - It marks the beginning of the hierarchical supremacy of the Brahmans. Though the Brahmans seem never to have aspired to the royal power, their caste, as far as we know the history and traditions of India, has always been in reality the ruling caste. Their ministry was courted as the only means of winning divine favour, their doctrines were admitted as infallible, their gods were worshipped as the only true gods...
Pàgina x - ... same millions who were patiently bearing the yoke of a political despotism, threw off the fetters of an intellectual tyranny. In order to overthrow one of the oldest religions of the world, it was sufficient that one man should challenge the authority of the Brahmans, the gods of the earth...