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: archive.org: Easton's Bible DictionaryChapter definition and references: The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch was divided by the ancient Hebrews into 54 parshioth or sections, one of which was read in the synagogue every Sabbath day (Acts. 13:15). These sections were afterwards divided into 669 sidrim or orders of unequal length. The Prophets were divided in somewhat the same manner into haphtaroth or passages.
In the early Latin and Greek versions of the Bible, similar divisions of the several books were made. The New Testament books were also divided into portions of various lengths under different names, such as titles and heads or chapters.
In modern times this ancient example was imitated, and many attempts of the kind were made before the existing division into chapters was fixed. The Latin Bible published by Cardinal Hugo of St. Cher in A.D. 1240 is generally regarded as the first Bible that was divided into our present chapters, although it appears that some of the chapters were fixed as early as A.D. 1059. This division into chapters came gradually to be adopted in the published editions of the Hebrew, with some few variations, and of the Greek Scriptures, and hence of other versions.
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Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)
Bhela and Bhela Saį¹hitÄ < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
HÄrÄ«ta (Äyurveda scholar) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Aį¹£į¹Äį¹ ga-Saį¹graha (Äyurveda book) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Padma Purana (by N.A. Deshpande)
Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad (by Prasanna Kumar Acharya)
Architecture in the Puranas < [Chapter 3 - Classical or post-Vedic Architecture]
A Summary of the Mayamata Shilpa-shastra < [Chapter 4 - Shilpa Shastras]
A Summary of the Amsumad-Bheda of Kasyapa < [Chapter 4 - Shilpa Shastras]
Informal Education of Sanskrit in Kerala (by Jayasree M.)
7. The Reading of Itihasas and Puranas < [Chapter 3 - Informal Education of Sanskrit in Kerala: the Traditional Streams]
1. Introduction to Ayurvedic Education < [Chapter 5 - Sanskrit and Ayurveda: Role of Informal education]
The Agnistoma Somayaga in the Shukla Yajurveda (by Madan Haloi)
Part 4: KÄtyÄyana ÅrautasÅ«tra (Introduction) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Part 2: VÄjasaneyÄ« Saį¹hitÄ (Introduction) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Glories of India (Culture and Civilization) (by Prasanna Kumar Acharya)
Knowledge of Architecture (Vastu-shastra) < [Chapter 6 - Practical sciences]
Introduction to the Brahmanas (commentaries of the Vedas) < [Chapter 7 - Original literatures]
Knowledge of Philology and Grammar < [Chapter 7 - Original literatures]