Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s5.75
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s5.75
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We are thus able to see, that the life that these people led was not at all morbid or dreamy-like, as is generally believed to have been the case in regard to Ancient Indian life in general. It was a life born of everyday struggles and developed through intermittant pleasures and amusements, fairs and festivals, joy and beauty, which alone could preserve the soul of the race, as of individual.¹