The Critical, Comparative, and Hisorical Method of Inquiry: As Applied to Sanskrit Scholarship and Philology and Indian Archeology, Being a Lecture ... College Literary Society of Bombay on t - Softcover

Bhandarkar, Ramkrishna G.

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ISBN 10: 1330830660 ISBN 13: 9781330830666

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Excerpt from The Critical, Comparative, and Hisorical Method of Inquiry: As Applied to Sanskrit Scholarship and Philology and Indian Archeology, Being a Lecture Read at a Public Meeting Held Under the Auspices of the Free Church College Literary Society of Bombay on the 31st of March, 1888

Yajurveda came from Tartary, and our Chitpavan Brahmans from Egypt, and that these foreigners were admitted into our exclusive Hindu com munity and assigned the highest place 2 Is there a tittle of evidence to[14.

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Excerpt from The Critical, Comparative, and Hisorical Method of Inquiry: As Applied to Sanskrit Scholarship and Philology and Indian Archeology, Being a Lecture Read at a Public Meeting Held Under the Auspices of the Free Church College Literary Society of Bombay on the 31st of March, 1888

A critical inquirer is one who does not accept an account of an occurrence just as it is presented to him whether orally or in writing. He subjects it to certain tests calculated to prove its truth or otherwise. He takes care for instance to ascertain whether the person giving the account was an eyewitness to the occurrence, and if so whether he was an unprejudiced and at the same time an intelligent observer. If his information is based on other sources, the critic endeavours to ascertain the credibility or otherwise of those sources. When it is a thing or a verified occurrence that he has to deal with, he does not satisfy himself with that view of its nature and relations that appears plausible at first sight. He seeks for extraneous assistance to enable himself to arrive at a correct view. One of the most efficacious means employed by him is comparison of like things or occurrences. This comparison enables him to separate the accidents of the thing or occurrence from its essential nature, and sometimes to arrive at a law which includes the thing or occurrence as a particular case and explains it. Though comparison may thus be considered one of the means of a critical examination, still its own proper results are so important that it deserves to be considered an independent method of inquiry. The history of a thing i. e. a comparison of the various forms it presents at different well-ascertained periods, is also of the greatest use for the determination of its real nature. Often, when no written history is available, the inquirer determines the historical or chronological relations between the several forms of a thing by referring them to an obvious standard, and arrives at some important conclusions based on such relations. Thus for instance, the Greek esmeś 'we are' is more ancient than the Sanskrit smas, for it retains the original a of the root as in the form of e which Sanskrit has lost; and the Sanskrit santi 'they are,' more ancient than the Greek 'entí' which has lost the whole root as. From an observation of many such forms the conclusion to be drawn is that Greek is not derived from Sanskrit, nor Sanskrit from Greek, but both from an older form of speech. The comparative and historical methods correspond to the inductive method used in the physical and experimental sciences. In those branches of knowledge in which you cannot from the nature of the case make experiments, you have recourse to comparison and historical observation.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330830660
• ISBN 13: 9781330830666
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