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Prannath Pandit — Morals of Kdliddsa. 



[No. 3, 



In concluding these remarks I think what I have here given is suffi- 

 cient reason for my saying that, in the matter of izdfats, and system of 

 spelling proper and geographical names, I shall never follow Mr. Bloch- 

 mann. 



Note.— The above article has been inserted at the urgent request of Major Kaverty. 

 As he has now stated his views on Persian Grammar, &o., and Mr. Blochmann does 

 not think it necessary to write a ' Eejoinder', the subject has come to a close. E». 



Morals of Kdliddsa. — By Prannath Pandit, M. A. 



It has been remarked by a great philosopher that the conception of 

 man as the chief of the economy of nature is a stimulus to the cultivation 

 of the noble qualities, which place him at the head of the living hierarchy. 

 There can be, he observes, no danger of apathy in a position like this,— 

 with the genuine and just pride of such pre-eminence stirring within us ; 

 and above us the type of perfection, below which we must remain, but 

 which will ever be inviting us upwards.* Viewed in this light, it may not 

 be uninteresting to investigate the moral type which the greatest of Indian 

 poets held up for imitation to his contemporaries, men within whom there 

 stirred not only the pride of being placed at the head of the living hierar- 

 chy, but that of being the highest development of the human race. 



The four divisions of Morality which I have adopted in this paper are 

 the following : 



I. Individual. 



II. Domestic. 



III. Social. 



IV. Military and Political. 



And I may here mention once for all, that neither in the principles, 

 nor in the details of classification, do I pretend any claims to originality. 



Individual Mokality. Self-conservation.-l n the first great sub- 

 division of Individual Morality, namely, self- conservation, Kalidasa does not 

 tail us. He tells us of Bilipa that he guarded himself, though not through 

 tearf to which the advice of the disguised Shiva that the body is the first 

 requisite for religious works* may serve as a commentary. Nandini ad- 

 vises the same king to preserve his body, the enjoyer of continuous hap- 



* Comte's Positive Philosophy, translated by H. Martineau, Vol. II, p. 554. 



t *pHTT<3TT*PR^r: | Raghu., I, 21. 



+ irCtfTTO-*^ q^TOftp^ ( Kumara Sambhava, V. S3. 



