History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.315

v7.c91.315

¹⁶⁴⁶ Vide 'Inscriptions of Aśoka' ed by Dr. Hultzsch (1925) pp. 20-21 for the text and translation of the Rock Edict from Girnar. Dr Minakshi in 'Administration and Social life under the Pallavas' (University of Madras, 1938, pp 170-172) after remarking that Pallava monarchs as a class were tolerant towards all religious sects, points out that king Pallavamalla indulged in some harsh methods and persecution. Prof. Arnold Toynbee in 'East and West' (Oxford Uni Press) points out that Christianity and Islam have seldom been content to follow the practice of 'live and let live' and that both of them have been responsible for some of the bitterest conflicts and cruellest atrocities that have disgraced history' (p 49) Similarly, V O. Vogt in 'Cult and Culture' condemns the unbending arrogance of Moslems and Christian Missionaries in their claims of revealed authority and laments that religion will meet disaster unless it universalises its own conception of Revelation to embrace the future as well as the past (p. 70)