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...concept, he tells his students, first appeared between 2000 and 1000 B.C. in Indian Hinduism's sacred Sanskrit Vedas, which emphasized the idea of one universe where all creatures are interdependent parts of God. In the Upanishads, nonviolence (ahimsa) became one of the five moral virtues. Gautama Buddha (500 B.C.) preached the impracticality of selfishness and hatred, saying that "hatreds are not quenched by hatred. Hatreds are quenched by love." Side by side with Buddhism in the 6th century B.C. came the similar, if sterner, ethics of Jainism, which held that because "all beings hate pains," the "quintessence...
...University should respond to a "well-felt need" among students and professors for a course in Hindi, Daniel H. Ingalls '36, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, said yesterday...
...Venkateswaran, one of the residents at the Center is of the Hindu faith and is one of the professors of Sanskrit at the Presidency College, Madras University, South India...
Orders for the new series, through a record-of-the-month sort of operation known as Shakespeare Recording Society Inc. (4,000 members so far), are "twelve times what we expected," notes Partner Mantell. She once said: "After studying Greek, Gothic and Sanskrit, we were obviously unfitted for anything." Now she admits: "We apparently had a streak of business sense...
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