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Wine in Ancient India - Dhirendra Krishna Bose
Sculpture.
PREFACE
Some portions of this appeared in 'The Indian Good Templar' 1919, the official organ of the Grand Lodge of India, I. O. G. T., and some parts of it were read in Lord Clive Lodge No. 35, Calcutta, and the rest published for the first time.
I thank Dr. H. H. Mann, D. Sc. the Grand Chief Templar of the Grand Lodge of India, for encouraging me in this work, and Mr. S. C. Palit M.A., B.L., for going through the M.S.S.
I received much help from the Bengalee paper 'Sura' by my uncle, the late Kumar A. K. Deb, published from the Sahitya Sava of Calcutta, a debt, I gratefully acknowledge.
95, Grey Street, Calcutta, 26th March 1922.
D. K. BOSE.
DHARMA SHASTRAS.
Ages and the Scriptures.
The Hindu Shastras are classed into : —
1. Shruti, which includes the four Vedas.
2. Smriti, the work on social and family duties.
3. Purans.
4. Tantras.
The great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are included in the Hindu Scriptures, and works Artha Shastra of Kautilya and Kama Sutra of Vatsayana, though not truly Dharma-shastras are works on social domestic and political duties of men.
Ayur-Veda or science of life, deals in health and medicine, which forms a part of Atharva-veda is also included here.
Buddhism originated from Hindu philosophy, and later Hinduism is much indebted to this cult, so is its precepts too are hurriedly glanced.
According to the Hindu Shastras there are four ages, and for each age a suitable shastra is given. We find from Kularnava Tantra, in Satya-Yuga (the Golden age of righteousness, free from sin) the scriptures were the Vedas.
The second age was the Treta-Yuga (righteousness decreased by one fourth) the scriptures were the Smrities.
The third age was the Dvapara-Yuga (righteousness decresed by half) the scriptures were the Puranas,
The fourth age is the Kali-Yuga (the iron age, in which we find so much wickedness, and the decline of all that is good) the scriptures are the Tantras.¹
We shall deal only with the following :
1. The Vedic period 2000-1400 B. C.
2. The Epic period 1400-1000 B. C.
3. Rationalistic period 1000-243 B. C.
4. Buddhist period 242 B. C. - 500 A. D.
5. Pauranik period 500 A. D. to 1124 A. D.
1. The Vedas.
Of all religious books of the Hindus the Vedas