Indian Antiquary Vol 08

SR No.: 032500
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 404
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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NOVEMBER, 1879.)
FIND OF ANCIENT POTTERY IN MALABAR.
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we hope we shall see the king in His beauty, The best I can find among the commentators is and behold the land of far-off places'; we, I say, that given by Ellis from the Agamas : can understand that the poet may have risen in (1) Self-existence; (2) Essential purity; (3) thought-I feel sure he did-above the mere Intuitive wisdom ; (4) Infinite intelligence; (5) technicalities of any of the systems, into the Immateriality; (6) Mercy ; (7) Omnipotence; heart of which his poet's eye penetrated.
(8) Happiness. 6. "Those who have stood firmly in the It is significant, as Ellis remarks, that every path of virtue free from falsehood, which is the Hindå enumeration omits justice as one of the path of Him who has extinguished the fire essential attributes of God. whose gates are the organs of sense, shall live | The eight beatitudes must suggest themselves long in prosperity."
to the mind of the Christian student; and in Here, too, is a reference probably to the fair some way or other the Tamil sage has insisted Arugan, one of whose titles is 'lord of the | on them all. senses. His grace extinguishes in others the 10. "They shall swim over the vast sea of fires of sensual passion.
birth, who have clang to the foot of the king : 7. “Hard is it to relieve the heart-felt! no others shall do so." anxieties of any save of those who have clang Here we seem to have the doctrine of the to the feet of Him to whom there is none like."
metem psychosis : The phrase epithet,' to whom there is none
Eternal process moving on, like, relatus as Ellis says, as do all the others in From state to state the spirit walks.' the chapter, to the Adi-pagavan of the first The end is absorption into the Divine Essence. stanza, the Eternal Adorable One, whom no This seems, here at least, to be the poet's further symbol can express and no form design.'
bank, to which he attains after swimming over 8. "Hard is it to swim the other sea (of the sea of birth. Our English poet's instinct this evil world) unless you cling to the foot is truer :of Him Who is the good and gracious Sea "That each, who seems a separate whole, of Virtue."
Should move his rounds, and fusing all The word ári, which is translated sen,' is The skirts of self again, should fall also circle: 'ocean mirrors rounded large. The Remerging in the general soul, iden may be the whole eirele of existence.' Is faith as vague as all unsweet : Poor wanderers of a stormy day,
Eternal form shall still divide From wave to wave we're driven.'
The eternal soul from all beside; Comp. Dante, Paradiso I.:
And I shall know him when we meet.' Per lo gran mar dell'essere."
I think that, among other things, these car9. "The head of the man who bows not sory notes may remind all who seek to influence before the foot of Him Who has the eight quali. the Tamil mind, that there is some common standties, is void of all (good) qualities, like organs ing ground for those who would teach and those of sense devoid of the power of sensation." who are to be taught, that there is a Light
It is impossible to say how the poet defined which lighteneth every one that cometh into his eight qualities or attributes of the Supreme. the world.'
FIND OF ANCIENT POTTERY IN MALABAR.
BY WILLIAM LOGAN, M.C.S., COLLECTOR OF MALABAR. During the last Kaster holidays I spent a tamuri Dosam of the Padinyattamari portion of my leisure in examining some sub- Amsham in the Calicut Taluka. The Paramba terranean cells near Calicut, of the existence of an upland under dry cultivation with some which I was informed by Mr. Kelappen, the scattered fruit trees) in which the cells are Deputy Tehsildar of Taliparamba, who assisted situated is called Challil Kuriny ôli, and me in the search.
belongs to Pokkirätta enna Teranyôli Chekka The group of cells lies at a distance of about Nayar. The occupant of the land, one Challi? 64 miles north of Calieut in the Padinyat | Kurinyoli Chandu Kutti, had some ten years