Avid example sentences

Mirabai became a disciple of Ravidas, a saint from a caste considered “untouchable”.This view is called Ricardian equivalence after one of the greatest nineteenth century economists, David Ricardo, who first argued that in the face of high deficits, people save more.They argued that Brahmans were heirs of Aryan invaders from the north who had conquered southern lands from the original inhabitants of the region – the indigenous Dravidian races.The English novelist and academic David Lodge once remarked, “I can't understand how one man can do all the things he [Eco] does.He argued that untouchables were the true upholders of an original Tamil and Dravidian culture which had been subjugated by Brahmans.This might partly explain the difference between the history of the followers of Guru Nanak and the history of the followers of the other religious figureures of the medieval centuries, like Kabir, Ravidas and Dadu whose ideas were very similar to those of Guru Nanak.This tradition also included saints like Dadu Dayal, Ravidas and Mirabai.A Sanskrit prashasti (see Chapter 2 for an example of a prashasti) praising the Delhi Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban (1266-87) explained that he was the ruler of a vast empire that stretched from Bengal (Gauda) in the east to Ghazni (Gajjana) in Afghanistan in the west and included all of south India (Dravida).David Hume, a noted philosopher writing in 1752, refuted this view and pointed out that if the stock of gold went down, all prices and costs would fall commensurately and no one in the country would be worse off.