That wondrous oriental story is now to be rehearsed from the
Shaster, which gives us the dread Vishnoo, one of the three persons in the godhead of the Hindoos; gives us this divine Vishnoo himself for our Lord; --Vishnoo, who, by the first of his ten earthly incarnations, has for ever set apart and sanctified the whale.
Fikr Taunsvi's other books are Hiule (collection of poetry) (1947), Saatvaan
shaster (1950), Chand aur gadha (1960), Fikr nama (1977), Modern Aladin, Aakhri kitab (1980), Baat mein ghaat (1983), Chhilke hi chhilke (1984) and Fikr bani (1985).
Zvi took the opportunity to connect with Architects Without Frontiers (AWF), who put them in touch with the
Shaster Foundation, a non-profit organisation building economic and environmental sustainability projects in South Africa's poorest communities.
Her sensibility in the 1880s seems to have matched the masthead of the Religio-Philosophical Journal, which shows the "Holy Bible" atop a stack of Eastern scriptures including the "Koran, Zend-Avesta, and
Shaster."
(120.) India's personal law system can be traced back at least to the 1772 decision by Warren Hastings, the British viceroy for India at the time: "in all Suits regarding Inheritance, Marriage, Caste, and all other religious Usages or Institutions, [apply] the Laws of the Koran with respect to [Muslims], and those of the
Shaster with respect to [Hindus]." A Plan for the Administration of Justice (1772), in SELECTIONS FROM THE STATE PAPERS OF THE GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF INDIA Vol.
That wondrous oriental story is now to be rehearsed from the
Shaster, which gives us the dread Vishnoo, one of the three persons in the godhead of the Hindoos; gives us this divine Vishnoo himself for our Lord;--Vishnoo, who, by the first of his ten earthly incarnations, has for ever set apart and sanctified the whale.
In the fall of 2007, the students, all seniors at WPI, traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, where they worked for seven weeks with the
Shaster Foundation to help improve the living conditions of the residents of squatter villages that sprang up during apartheid.
In the late eighteenth century the British authorities established a general territorial law, with a common law type system of courts, but retained "enclaves of personal law." (168) For example, the Bengal regulation of 1772 provided that with regard to "inheritance, marriage, caste, and other religious usages and institutions" the courts should apply "the laws of the Koran with regard to Mohammedans, and those of the
Shaster with respect to the Hindus." (169) This policy of retaining separate systems of personal law continued with few exceptions until Indian independence.
as Mahometans to their Koran the Hindoos to their
Shaster the Chinese to Confucius
of the
Shaster with regard to Gentoos shall be invariably adhered to."
It would also mean that the decision made in Calcutta, in 1772, to apply "the law of the
Shaster to the Gentoos," was not as ill conceived as many students of Hindu law, including this reviewer, have repeatedly claimed.