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Law
arnold's presence in the text
"I am a late-come scribe" who does not have the "wit to speak beyond the books" — but since "time hath blurred their script and ancient sense" he only knows a little of that "large discourse
this implies that he is filling in the gaps somehow - okay so what do we do with this information
he wrote a book on Christ called the light of the world — and here, the Buddha is the light of Asia — in this manner, he localises the Buddha and his teachings to Asia - what does that do?
criticism of catholicism?
Miltonian verse and epic?
uppercase Law — buddhist doctrine
the Buddha's Law - it belongs to the Buddha
the Law as a rejection of the law and the laws of orthodoxy — in the text, we see a reformist impulse towards caste discrimination
the Buddha rejects genealogical arguments of caste and caste contamination
but the legitimacy of his doctrine also derives from his genealogy of his
1) divine -
2) rebirths and hindu mythology
3) being hailed as a (divine) prince even as he sheds all marks of the class status of prince-hood
love
Law of love
love for his consort throughout multiple lives and cycles of birth and rebirth
love that transcends the boundaries of categorisation - human or animal, upper caste or lower caste
The law of love is that it transcends — ugh this is ridiculously christopher nolany chee
and from here you can try to link to the stakes. What are the stakes?
arnold, as an outsider being able to tell the tale and
if love transcends, then what does that do to questions of legitimacy - who is the one who gets to disseminate the Buddha's doctrine?
questions of cultural appropriation?
oof
link this to arnold's own universalising impulse— the protestantism/buddhism as a response to catholic/brahmanical orthodoxy
then the jesus/buddha vibes - messiah vibes - self appointed messiah (99. 102) - emphasis on compassion and embracing those who are "lowborn" etc etc
165 - very christy
link to the "house of love"
the House of love
lowercase love
this love which has the effect of localising sidharth so that the fucker doesn't go and achieve enlightenment
he rejects the genealogical categorisation of caste: there is no caste in blood/which runneth of one hue
his rejection of caste categorisation relies upon the universalism of human blood
the universalism of human blood — perhaps it is that, or another category of universal humanness that allows everyone to know and understand and feel the buddha's love
not universal humanness - since birds and animals also feel his love
everyone can experience the buddha's love:While our Lord taught; and, while he taught, who heard —
Though he were stranger in the land, or slave ....Had sense of Buddha’s vast embracing love ()
in some ways, arnold is a stranger to the land of India but
narrates the epic through the voice of a
Buddhist votary (6)
but the fact remains that he tries to write as as and adopt the voice of a Buddhist votary and not an English gentleman - there is a shift in forms and identity that he tries to affect