The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India, edited by E.J. RapsonUniversity Press, 1922 - India |
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aborigines Açoka Alexander ancient Andhras Antiochus appears Aryan Atharvaveda Bactria Bengal Bharatas Brahman Brāhmaņa Buddha Buddhist Çaka capital caste Çatapatha century B.C. Chapter civilisation coins Çūdra Çungas Delhi Dharma district doubt Dravidian early east eastern elephants empire epic Eucratides Euthydemus evidence fact Frag Ganges Greek Grihya Sūtras Heliocles Hindu Kush hymns India Indus inscriptions invasion Iranian Jain Jāt Jataka Kabul valley Kharoshthi king kingdom Kosala Kshatriya Kurus land languages later law-books legend literature Magadha Mahābhārata Mahāvīra Manu Maurya Megasthenes mentioned miles mountains Nakshatras Nikāyas northern origin Pandus Parthia passage period Persian plain priest princes probably Provinces Punjab Purāņas recognised references regarded region reign religious Rigveda river royal rule sacrifice Samhita Sanskrit satrap seems slave Strabo Strabo xv Sūtras Takshaçilā Tetradrachm texts tradition tribes Upanishads Vaiçya Vedic VIII village Western Yavana ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
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Page 64 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 206 - Just, O king, as a shipowner who has become wealthy by constantly levying freight in some seaport town, will be able to traverse the high seas, and go to Vanga, or Takkola, or China, or Sovira, or Surat, or Alexandria, or the Koromandel coast, or Further India, or any other place where ships do...
Page 44 - Stature above mean ; complexion fair ; eyes mostly dark, but occasionally grey ; hair on face plentiful ; head broad ; nose moderately narrow, prominent, and very long.
Page 87 - It was the custom in the land of Ishmael to bring the bride from the house of her father to that of her husband in the night time ; and there were about ten staffs; upon the top of each was a brazen dish, containing rags, oil, and pitch, and this being kindled formed blazing torches, which were carried before the bride.
Page 47 - The head is broad ; complexion dark ; hair on face usually plentiful ; stature medium ; nose medium, with a tendency to broad.
Page 40 - In typical specimens the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion very dark, approaching black ; hair plentiful, with an occasional tendency to curl ; eyes dark ; head long ; nose very broad, sometimes depressed at the root, but not so as to make the face appear flat.
Page 138 - Time is in the long run death, so that the sacrificer himself becomes death, and by that act rises superior to death, and is for ever removed from the world of illusion and trouble to the world of everlasting bliss. In this the true nature of Prajapati and of the sacrificer is revealed as intelligence, and the...
Page 170 - The administrative and judicial business of the clan was carried out in public assembly at which young and old were alike present in their common Mote Hall at Kapilavastu.
Page 165 - If the date for Asoka is placed too early in the Ceylon chronicles, can we still trust the 218 years which they allege to have elapsed from the commencement of the Buddhist era down to the time of Asoka ? If so we have only to add that number to the correct date of Asoka, and thus fix the Buddhist era [the date of the Buddha's death] at 483 BC or shortly after.
Page 50 - Aryan does not attempt to speak it, and the necessities of intercourse compelled the aborigine to use a broken 'pigeon' form of the language of a superior civilisation. As generations pass this mixed jargon more and more approximates to its model, and in process of time the old aboriginal language is forgotten and dies a natural death.