Hugh George Rawlinson

Hugh George Rawlinson was a British academic. Quotes Almost all the theories, religious philosophical and mathematical, taught by the Pythagoreans, were known in India in the sixth century BCE, and the Pythagoreans, like the Jains and the Buddhists, refrained from the destruction of life and eating meat. Rawlinson. H. G. ‘Early Contacts between India and Europe’. In A Cultural History of India, edited by A. L. Basham, pp. 425-441. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1975. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 The theory of metempsychosis plays almost as great a part in Greek as in Indian religious thought. Both Pythagoras and Empedocles claimed to possess the power of recollecting their past births. Metempsychosis is refered to in many places in Pindar, and, with the complementary doctrine of Karma, it is the key-stone of the philosophy of Plato. The soul is for ever travelling in a “cycle of necessity”. The evil it does in one semicircle of its pilgrimage is expiated in the other. “Each soul”, we are told in the Phaedrus, “returning to the election of a second life, shall receive one agreeable to his desire”. But most striking of all is the famous apologue of Er the Pamphylian, with which Plato appropriately ends the Republic […] “In like manner, some of the animals passed into men, and into one another, the unjust passing into the wild, and the just into the tame.”’ Rawlinson. H. G. ‘Early Contacts between India and Europe’. In A Cultural History of India, edited by A. L. Basham, pp. 425-441. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1975. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 External links Wikisource Category:1880 births Category:1957 deaths Category:Academics from England