[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v5.c74.5 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.5 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.5 - **Language:** English ### [v5.c74.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.5) ¹²³⁹ Tagore in his 'Sādhanā' (p 9) remarks 'India chose her places of pilgrimage wherever there was in nature some special grandeur or (\*Continued on the next page\*) beauty so that her mind could come out of its world of narrow necessities and realize its place in the Infinite. This was the reason why in India a whole people who once were meat-eaters gave up taking animal food to cultivate the sentiment of universal sympathy for life, an event unique in the history of mankind.' There is a fundamental difference in the outlook of modern Westerners and that of ancient and medieval Indians (which persists to a large extent even now). If there is a beauty spot anywhere most men in the West would think of building a hotel there for tourists, while ancient and medieval Indians would have thought of erecting a shrine there. - [Previous: v5.c74.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.4) - [Next: v5.c74.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.6) - [Up: v5.c74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.5) · Pramāṇa