Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India: Volume I, Volume 1This is Volume IX of eleven in a collection of India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1910, this is the first part of an account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of Alberuni's India about A.D. 1030. |
Contents
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Chapter I On the Hindus In General as an Introduction To our Account of Them | 17 |
Chapter II On the Belift of the Hindus in God | 27 |
Chapter III On the Hindu Belief as to Created Things Both Intelligibilia and Sensibilia | 33 |
Chapter IV From What Cause Action Originates And How the Soul is Connected With Matter | 45 |
Chapter V On the State of the Souls and Their Migrations Through the World in the Metempsychosis | 50 |
Chapter VI On The Different Worlds and on the Places Of Retribution in Pardise and Hell | 59 |
Chapter XXV On the Rivers of India Their Sources and Courses | 257 |
Chapter XXVI On the Shape of Heaven and Earth According to the Hindu Astronomers | 263 |
Chapter XXVII On the First two Motions of the Universe That From East to West According to Ancient Astronomers and the Precession of the Equi... | 278 |
Chapter XXVIII on the Definition of the ten Directions | 289 |
Chapter XXIX Definition of the Inhabitable Earth According to the Hindus | 294 |
Chapter XXX On Lanka or the Cupola of the Earth | 306 |
Chapter XXXI On That Difference of Various Places Which We Call the Difference of Longitude | 311 |
Chapter XXXII On the Notions of Duration and Time in General and on the Creation of the World and its Destruction | 319 |
Chapter VII On the Nature of Liberation From the World and on the Path Leading Thereto | 68 |
Chapter VIII On the Different Classes of Created Beings and on Their Names | 89 |
Chapter IX On The Castes Called Colours Varna and on the Classes Below Them | 99 |
Chapter X On the Source of Their Religious and civil Law on Prophets and on the Question Whether Single Laws Can be Abrogated or Not | 105 |
Chapter XI About The Beginning of IdolWorship and A Description of the Individual Idols | 111 |
Chapter XII On the Veda the Puranas and Other Kinds of Their National Literature | 125 |
Chapter XIII Their Grammatical and Metrical Literature | 135 |
Chapter XIV Hindu Literature in the Other Sciences Astronomy Astrology Etc | 152 |
Chapter XV Notes on Hindu Metrology Intended to Facilitate the Understanding of all Kinds of MeasureMents Which Occur in This Book | 160 |
Chapter XVI Notes on the Writing of the Hindus on Their Arithmetic and Related Subjects and on Certain Strange Manners and Customs of Theirs | 170 |
Chapter XVII On Hindu Sciences Which Prey on the Ignorance of People | 187 |
Chapter XVIII Various Notes on Their Country Their Rivers and Their Ocean Itineraries of the Distances Between Their Several Kingdoms and Betw... | 196 |
Chapter XIX On the Names of the Planets the Signs of the Zodiac the Lunar Stations and Related Subjects | 213 |
Chapter XX On the Brahmanda | 221 |
Chapter XXI Description of Earth and Heaven According to the Religious Views of the Hindus Based Upon Their Traditional Literature | 228 |
Chapter XXII Traditions Relating to the Pole | 239 |
Chapter XXIII On Mount Meru According to the Belief of the Authors of the Puranas and the Others | 243 |
Chapter XXIV Traditions of the Puranas Regarding Each of the Seven Dvipas | 251 |
Chapter XXXIII On the Various Kinds of the Day or Nychthemeron and on Day and Night in Particular | 327 |
Chapter XXXIV On the Division of the Nychthemeron Into Minor Particles of Time | 334 |
Chapter XXXV On the Different Kinds of Months and Years | 346 |
Chapter XXXVI On the Four Measures of Time Called Mana | 353 |
Chapter XXXVII On the Parts of the Month and the Year | 356 |
Chapter XXXVIII On The Various Measures of Time Composed of Days The Life of Brahman Included | 359 |
Chapter XXXIX On Measures of Time Which are Larger Than the Life Of Brahman | 361 |
Chapter XL On The Samdhi the Interval Between Two Periods of Time Forming the Connecting Link Between Them | 364 |
Chapter XLI Degintion of the Terms Kalpa And Caturyuga and an Explication of the One by the Other | 368 |
Chapter XLII On the Division of the Caturyuga Into Yugas and the Different Opinions Regarding the Latter | 372 |
Chapter XLIII A Description of the Four Yugas and of allThat Is Expected to Take Place at the end of the Fourth Yuga | 378 |
Chapter XLIV On the Manvantars | 386 |
Chapter XLV On the Constellation of the Great Bear | 389 |
Chapter XLVI On Narayana His Appearance at Different Times and His Names | 395 |
Chapter XLVII On Vasudeva and the Wars of the Bharata | 400 |
Chapter XLVIII An Explanation of the Measure of an Adshauhini | 407 |
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