Muhammad Biruni, Muh Ammad Ibn Ah Mad B. R. N.

Alberuni's India - Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

A two-volume annotated translation published in 1888 of the work on early medieval Indian life by Muslim polymath Alberuni.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781108047197
• ISBN-10: 110804719X
• Artikelnr.: 35486042

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's preface; Preface; 1. On the Hindus in general, as an introduction
to our account of them; 2. On the belief of the Hindus in God; 3. On the
Hindu belief as to created things, both 'intelligibilia' and 'sensibilia';
4. From what cause action originates, and how the soul is connected with
matter; 5. On the state of the souls, and their migrations through the
world in the metempsychosis; 6. On the different worlds, and on the places
of retribution in paradise and hell; 7. On the nature of liberation from
the world, and on the path leading thereto; 8. On the different classes of
created beings, and on their names; 9. On the castes, called 'colours'
(varna), and on the classes below them; 10. On the source of their
religious and civil law, on prophets, and on the question whether single
laws can be abrogated or not; 11. About the beginning of idol-worship, and
a description of the individual idols; 12. On the Veda, the Pur¿nas, and
other kinds of their national literature; 13. Their grammatical and
metrical literature; 14. Hindu literature in the other sciences -
astronomy, astrology, etc.; 15. Notes on Hindu metrology, intended to
facilitate the understanding of all kinds of measurements which occur in
this book; 16. Notes on the writing of the Hindus, on their arithmetic and
related subjects, and on certain strange manners and customs of theirs; 17.
On Hindu sciences which prey on the ignorance of people; 18. Various notes
on their country, their rivers, and their ocean - itineraries of the
distances between their several kingdoms, and between the boundaries of
their country; 19. On the names of the planets, the signs of the zodiac,
the lunar stations, and related subjects; 20. On the Brahmânda; 21.
Description on earth and heaven according to the religious views of the
Hindus, based upon their traditional literature; 22. Traditions relating to
the Pole; 23. On Mount Meru according to the belief of the authors of the
Purânas and of others; 24. Traditions of the Purânas regarding each of the
seven Dvîpas; 25. On the rivers of India, their sources and courses; 26. On
the shape of heaven and earth according to the Hindu astronomers; 27. On
the first two motions of the universe (that from east to west according to
ancient astronomers, and the precession of the equinoxes) both according to
the Hindu astronomers and the authors of the Purânas; 28. On the definition
of the directions; 29. Definition of the inhabitable earth according to the
Hindus; 30. On Lankâ, or the cupola of the earth; 31. On that difference of
various places which we call the difference of longitude; 32. On the
notions of duration and time in general, and on the creation of the world
and its destruction; 33. On the various kinds of the day or nychthemeron,
and on day and night in particular; 34. On the division of the nychthemeron
into minor particles of time; 35. On the different kinds of months and
years; 36. On the four measures of time called mâna; 37. On the parts of
the month and the year; 38. On the various measures of time composed of
days, the life of Brahman included; 39. On measures of time which are
larger than the life of Brahman; 40. On the samdhi, the interval between
two periods of time, forming the connecting link between them; 41.
Definition of the terms 'kalpa' and 'caturyuga', and an explication of the
one by the other; 42. On the division of the caturyuga into yugas, and the
different opinions regarding the latter; 43. A description of the four
yugas, and of all that is expected to take place at the end of the fourth
yuga; 44. On the manvantaras; 45. On the constellation of the Great Bear;
46. On Nârâyana, his appearance at different times, and his names; 47. On
Vâsudeva and the wars of the Bhârata; 48. An explanation of the measure of
an akshauhinî.