: From Adam's Peak to Elephanta by Carpenter Edward - Sri Lanka Description and travel; India Description and travel; India Religion; India Social life and customs; Music India History and criticism

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COLOMBO. PAGES The Suez Canal--Port Said--Gulf of Suez--The Red Sea-- Colombo--Its streets and population--Picturesque glimpses--Tommy Atkins in a jinrickshaw--The Tamils and the Cinghalese--Costume and Character--Language and Literature--The British and the Eurasians--Social arrangements and amenities--"Spicy gales"--The coco-nut palm--A catamaran 5-25

KANDY AND PEASANT LIFE.

Primitive habits of the Cinghalese--"Ajax" arrives from England--A peasant-cabin near Kandy--Marriage-customs-- Devil-dancing--Kalua and Kirrah--Their rice-fields and mode of life--The great Buddhist temple at Kandy--The tooth-relic--Ancient MSS.--A Librarian-priest--The talipot palm--The British and the natives--The "oyster"-- Nuwara Ellia 26-39

KURUN?GALA.

Cinghalese views on Politics--Kornegalle--The Elephant-rock--The general landscape in Ceylon--Tanks and irrigation--The Paddy tax--Modern Commercial policy--Poverty of the people--The village bath--Decorum and passivity in manners--The bazaar and the shops--My friend the opium-seller--The policeman--The gaol and the prisoners--A Tamil official and his mode of life--The Bungalow--Mosquitos--Vegetable curries--The Hindu priest in the household--Native servants, their relation to British masters--The pariahs, and our slum-dwellers 40-59

ADAM'S PEAK AND THE BLACK RIVER.

BRITISH LAW-COURTS AND BUDDHIST TEMPLES.

The courts a great centre of popular interest--A means of wreaking personal revenge--The district court--A case of burglary--The British ideal of life does not appeal to the natives--A Tamil student of philosophy--To Dambulla in a bullock-cart--A coterie of Eurasians--The cave-temples of Dambulla--A boy-priest and his cook--Other Buddhist temples 86-97

ANUR?DHAPURA: A RUINED CITY OF THE JUNGLE.

A NIGHT-FESTIVAL IN A HINDU TEMPLE.

CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT THOUGHT.

What is the nature of a G??ni's experience? Answer given in modern thought-terms--Slow evolution of a new form of consciousness--Many a slip and pause by the way--A consciousness without thought--Meaning of "Nirwana"-- Phenomena of hypnotism--Theory of the fourth dimension-- The true quality of the soul is Space, by which it is present everywhere--Freedom, Equality--The democratic basis of Eastern philosophy 153-163

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