The Historians' History of the World 02

The Hindu is, then, an essentially religious being, but he is not a moral being. His yielding and gentle nature is accustomed to submit to the force of a climate that has sapped all his energy and to a long slavery. If he had no curb but his moral conscience, he would perhaps be one of the most fierce and dangerous peoples of the globe. His character alone has made him one of the most inoffensive.f

FOOTNOTES

[21] [This picturesque account by Diodorus has already been given in the history of Mesopotamia.]

[22] [On the matter of the famous “Juggernaut” procession which has become a proverb of relentlessness and fanaticism, it is important to note that Sir W. W. Hunter in his history of The Indian Empire makes a sweeping denial of the traditions concerning Jagannath, declaring that his religion is opposed to suicide or slaughter and that the deaths which happen at his festivals are few in number, less indeed than at ordinary political parades, and are due to accident or hysteria and not at all to religious frenzy.]

BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS

[The letter a is reserved for Editorial Matter.]

Chapter I. Land and People

b Georg Weber, Allgemeine Weltgeschichte.

c Ferdinand Justi, Geschichte der Orientalischen Völker im Alterthum.

d The Mahabharata and Ramayana.

e The Vedas.

f Max Duncker, Geschichte des Alterthums.

g Christian Lassen, Commentatio geographica atque historica de Pentapotamia Indica.

h Herodotus, Histories.

Chapter II. Indian History—Legend and Reality

b James Mill, History of British India.

c Solomon Lefmann, Geschichte des alten Indiens.

d Gustave le Bon, Les civilisations de l’Inde.

e W. W. Hunter, from the article “India” in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

f W. W. Hunter, Brief History of the Indian People.

g J. Fergusson, “On the Sakaa and Samvat and Gupta Eras” (Journal R. As. Soc., N. S. XII).

h Cesare Cantù, Storia universale.

i Sir Wm. Jones, Dissertations.

j Fa-Hian and Hwen-Tsang, Chronicles of Voyages in India.

Chapter III. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Hindus

b A. H. L. Heeren, Historical Researches into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity (Asiatic Nations).

c Mountstuart Elphinstone, The History of India.

d James Mill, op. cit.

e H. H. Wilson, Editor of James Mill’s History of British India.

f H. P. Colebroke in Asiatic Researches, Vol. LIII.

g Hanno, Periplus.

h Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis.

i Arrian, Indica.

j Colebroke, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society.

Chapter IV. Brahmanism and Buddhism

b Georg Weber, op. cit.

c Mountstuart Elphinstone, op. cit.

d James Mill, op. cit.

e H. H. Wilson, op. cit.

f Gustave le Bon, op. cit.

g T. W. Rhys Davids, from the article “Buddhism” in the New Volumes of the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

h Eugène Burnouf, Introduction à l’histoire du bouddhisme indien.

i W. W. Hunter, op. cit.

j B. H. Hodgson, Essays on Indian Subjects.

A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDIAN HISTORY

BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR EDITORIALLY CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT HISTORY

The following bibliography contains in the main only works relating to ancient India, as the bibliography of modern India, and particularly of India under British rule, will be specially treated in a later volume. A few works, however, on modern India are here included, inasmuch as they have a certain bearing on the historical, political, and religious development of ancient India.