History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.514

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Davidson, M. on 'Freewill and Determinism' 1575. 'Dawn of Astronomy', a work of Sir Norman Lockyer 512. Day (vide 'Babylon', Babylonia, 'tithi': begins at sunrise with Indian writers 676, 682; civil d. is interval between two consecutive sunrises, 675; civil d. begins at midnight in modern times 676; differences about the beginning of d. 675–676; difference between tithi and d. 675, divided into eight parts by Kautilya, Dakṣa and Kātyāyanasmṛti 675, five parts of, in Śatapatha and by others, 101, 675, fifteen muhūrtas of d. and night each, 675; Kautilya knew only a day divided into thirty muhūrtas or 60 nāḍīs and mentions no *horas* or hours 684; longest and shortest day of 36 and 24 ghaṭikās respectively, acc. to Vedāṅga-Jyotiṣa 538n; three parts of, mentioned in Ṛgveda 675, two meanings of, (1) from sunrise to sunrise and (2) from sunrise to sunset 675; two systems of dividing d into 60 ghaṭikās and 24 hours, 682–683, various views about divisions of d. into 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 or 15 parts, 267. Dāyabhāga, (a work) 1032n, 1233, 1281–82, 1292 (on meaning of 'mātā'), 1302–3, 1309, 1316n, 1320. Dāyatattva 1184, 1291. De, Dr. S. K., 1038, a. of Vaiṣṇava faith and movement in Bengal' 112–3, 120, 980. De Beus, a. of 'Future of the West', disagrees with Spengler and Toynbee, 1617. De Felicitation volume, paper in, by present writer on Pūrvamīmāṁsā 1160. Death. (vide atheism, heaven, punarjanma): ancient Indian doctrine about what happens after death preferred by some western writers to Biblical ideas 1594–95, last thought at death supposed to lead to an appropriate future life 972–3; signs of approaching d. 731n; three possibilities as to what happens after d. of body, discussed 1550–51, Upaniṣads like Chān. and Bṛ. contain germs of that idea (of last thought) but Gītā clarifies the position 972–3. Debts a brāhmaṇa (this includes the three varṇas) is born with three debts to sages, gods and ancestors and discharges them respectively by *brahmacarya* (i.e Veda study), sacrifices and birth of son, 1318n, 1626, Mahābhārata added a 4th debt, viz. to be good to all men 1626. Decimal numeration system in India goes back thousands of years, 699. Decimal place value notation 699–701, invented by Indians, 483n, 518, one of the most fertile inventions of man 699–70; was introduced in the 12th century in Europe by the Arabs who borrowed it from India, 483n, 699 and n (for authorities)