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Oriental conference papers


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Éditeur : Fort Printing Press Date & Lieu : 1932-01-01, Bombay
Préface : Pages : 406
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Langue : AnglaisFormat : 140x210 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. Lp. Gen. 64Thème : Politique

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Oriental conference papers

Oriental conference papers

Jivanji Jamshedji Modi

Fort Printing Press


I beg to thank you very much for electing me the President of this Fourth Oriental Conference. I had the; pleasure of attending all the three preceding conferences at Poona, Calcutta and Madras, and when I remember that those Conferences had, as their Presidents, scholars like the late Sir Bamakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar of Poona, Prof. Sylvain Levi of the Institute of France, and Dr. Ganganath Jha, the distinguished Vice-Chancellor of the University of this city where we have met, I feel honoured in being called upon, to sit on the chair worthily occupied by these eminent scholars. This honour of being chosen as the President, out of hundreds of capable scholars of the country—a country as great as a continent—is, as said ...



PREFACE


The credit of the movement of holding Conferences of Orientalists in India belongs to the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. The Executive Board of the Institute, which had the idea lurking in its mind, from the time of the very foundation of the Institute, passed, on the 12th of December 1918, a resolution, expressing the desirability to hold such a Conference, at first, in Poona, in 1919. It corresponded with some scholars to know their views on the subject. It seemed quite appropriate that the Institute should start this movement, because the late Professor Sir Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, whose honoured name the Institute bears, was the first distinguished Indian scholar of our Presidency who attended one of such Oriental Congresses in Europe. He had, as a Delegate from the Bombay Government, attended the seventh Oriental Congress at Vienna in 1886. He has given us an interesting account of his visit in his paper entitled “ My Visit to the Vienna Congress”, read before the Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, on 11th February 1887.  His presence there, in his “turban and uparneih”,  when added to his personality as a great scholar, must have been very attractive at that Congress. It appears from his paper, that he much appreciated the advantages of such congresses or conferences. So, it seems that, it was he, who first inspired his colleagues of the Committee of his Institute with the idea of holding such conferences in India.

When consulted about the desirability of holding such conferences, I agreed with great pleasure, as I also had the good fortune of having an interesting and instructive experience of an Oriental Congress in Europe. It was in the end of 1888, that a flash of thought first came to my mind, that I may tread humbly in the footsteps of Sir Kamkrishna G-. Bhandarkar, and go to Europe to attend the next Oriental Congress, the eighth Congress, which was to be held at Stockholm. I remember an evening in January 1889, when the late Prof. Peterson had invited a few friends, at his rooms in the Elphinstone College, to meet Prof. Lanman of America, then a budding scholar, now a great Oriental Scholar of the first rank. There, in conversation with Prof. Lanman and Prof. Peterson who was appointed Indian Secretary of the coming Congress at Stockholm, the first flash of thought to have some experience of an Oriental Congress in Europe, matured a little. At last, I made up my mind in June 1889, and started on 5th July, in the midst of a heavy monsoon which upset me for a few days. The next few days set me up, and the rest of my voyage and travels and my visit to the Congress, further set me up, as it were, in a career of progress in life as a student. The Congress was presided over by the late learned King, His Majesty King Oscar, who opened the Congress with a speech in Latin. I had the pleasure of being one of those who were put down as speakers for expressions of joy at the meeting of the Congress. I was the first Parsee in an Oriental Congress, and I remember well, how my address on that opening day in the Avesta, recited in the singing tone of a Parsee priest, was liked by the assembly, and among them, by the learned King himself, who, later on, honoured me with the presentation of a beautiful gold medal of the Diploma of Litteris et Artibus. That was the first medal I had the humble pleasure of winning in my life. I pray to be pardoned for this little autobiographical diversion, and say, that, with all the vivid recollection of what I had seen, heard, read and learnt at the feet of some great Oriental Scholars like Prof. Max Miiller at the Congress I, with very great pleasure agreed, when consulted, as said above, to the proposal of holding Oriental Conferences in our country.

I had the pleasure of personally attending all the six Congresses1 held upto now except the fifth, held at' Lahore. I had the pleasure and honour of presiding at the fourth Oriental Conference at Allahabad. Thanks . to God, I am honoured, by our and some foreign Governments and Institutions, in recognition of my humble literary work. Of all these honours, I value two, the most—that of being called to the Presidential , Chair of one of such Oriental Conferences and that of being honoured, later on, by my own Alma Mater, the «t University of Bombay, with its honoured LL.D. degree.

As an humble souvenir of all the above associations with the Oriental Conferences and of the inspiration for further study given by them, I beg to dedicate this work of Oriental Conference Papers ” to the President, the Vice-Presidents, and Members of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, which started the movement of these Oriental Conferences in India. I had the pleasure of dedicating one of my works, “ The Memorial Papers ”, to the Sacred Memory of the late Sir Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, the President of the Institute, and the originator of the idea of such Conferences, and now I take the liberty and the pleasure of dedicating this Volume to his Institute.

As the President of my K. B. Cama Oriental Institute for two years and as its Hon. Secretary for nearly 10 years, I have been often inspired by the work of the late Sir Bamkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, * whose name the Institute bears and by the work of a galaxy of scholars connected with the Institute. I remember with pleasure the few words of appreciation of my humble literary work uttered by Dr. Bhandarkar in his Presidential address as the President of the 1st Oriental Conference at Poona. Again, I remember with » pleasure and grateful feelings, my association with that Institute as one of its Honorary Members, one of its Vice- Presidents and as a Lecturer once on its platform. So, I beg to repeat, that it is with intense pleasure that I connect this Volume with the honoured name of the Institute.

-f I have read, in all, 15 papers before the various Sections of the Conferences. Out of these 15, ten are published in this Volume. One,—that on “ Prophylactic Disguises”, read in the Section of Anthropology at the Madras Conference,—is being published in my Anthro- ** pological Papers, Part V. Pour remain to be published.

I beg to oiler my best thanks to my learned friend Mr. Bomonji Nusserwanji Dhabhar, M.A., for the valued help he has kindly given me in preparing an exhaustive Index for this Volume.

Jivanji Jamshedji Modi



Presidential Address

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to thank you very much for electing me the President of this Fourth Oriental Conference. I had the; pleasure of attending all the three preceding conferences at Poona, Calcutta and Madras, and when I remember that those Conferences had, as their Presidents, scholars like the late Sir Bamakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar of Poona, Prof. Sylvain Levi of the Institute of France, and Dr. Ganganath Jha, the distinguished Vice-Chancellor of the University of this city where we have met, I feel honoured in being called upon, to sit on the chair worthily occupied by these eminent scholars. This honour of being chosen as the President, out of hundreds of capable scholars of the country—a country as great as a continent—is, as said by my last predecessor, Dr. Ganganath Jha, “the highest that can be obtained by an Oriental scholar”; and so, I appreciate it. I beg to assure you, that I always like to look at honours, not only as honours, but also as further calls for duty and responsibility. Privileges and responsibilities, both, must go together with honours. So, I feel, that it is my duty, not only to carry on well the traditions always attached to such Presidential chairs, but also, after retiring from the chair, to continue to work in the cause of Oriental learning and to advance it.
We all mourn the loss, caused, since we last met at Madras, by the death of our first President, Sir Bamakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar. Indian scholarship bemoans...

 

 




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