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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

The Hindu Drama; Kalidasa , ......

The Hindu Novel; Beast Stories, . . . . .

Sanskrit Lyric Poetry ; Jayadeva , ......

Mediaeval Theology ; the Puranas, .....

The Six Attacks on Brahmanism,......

CHAPTER V.

BUDDHISM IN INDIA (543 B.C. TO IOOO A.D.).

Buddha s Story modelled on the Sanskrit Epic,

Buddha , the Spiritual Development of the Heroic Aryan Man,Buddha ’s Parentage, Early Life, and Great Renunciation,

His Forest Life, Temptation, and Teachings,

His Later Years and Death, .......

The Northern and Southern Buddhist Schools,

Political Life of Buddha; his Opponents ; Devadatta, .Doctrines of Buddha ; Karma , Nirvana , ....

Moral Code of Buddha ; its Missionary Aspects, .

Political Development of Buddhism ; the Four Councils, 188,The Work of Asoka ; his Council and Edicts,

The Work of Kanishka, .......

The Northern and Southern Buddhist Canons,

Spread of Buddhism throughout Asia , .....

Buddhist Influences on Christianity , .....

Buddha as a Christian Saint, ......

Buddha ’s Personality denied, ......

Buddhism did not oust Brahmanism, .....

The Chinese Buddhist Pilgrims, Fa-Hian and Hiuen Tsiang,Buddhism under Siladitya; Monastery of Nalanda ,

Mingling of Buddhism and Brahmanism, ....

Buddhism an Exiled Religion ; its Foreign Conquests, .Buddhist Survivals in India , ......

The Jains ; their Relation to the Buddhists , . . . .

CHAPTER VI.

THE GREEKS IN INDIA (327 TO l6l B.C.).

Early Greek Writers ; Hekataios , Strabo , Pliny , and Arrian , .Alexander in India ; Results of his Invasion,

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