SAST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mahayana, Brahmin
7 Dec 2018
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Earliest mirrors are bronze mirrors, they were casted round and someone would spend lots of time polishing them. These mirrors didn"t give a clear image. Then, mirrors of silver were made, but they also didn"t give a clear image. Bhutanese, it is one of the dialects of tibetan language. Brahmins were never in power, there were a few kingdoms in which the brahmins were the rulers. Brahmins would make up the councillors and ministers of rulers. This pattern lasted until the muslim rule, then everything changed because muslims had their own system. It still had a lot of central authority during his rule. Because of the makeup of politics in india was always a changing thing, and because of regional pressures, how to sufficiently mitigate those pressures was always an issue. Harsha was more horizontal in his way of thinking in certain aspects compared to other great emperors before him. In bhakti, this profound meditation is not important.
