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Journal of Indian History December 1945

1945

The same is the opinion of V. G. Chi1de who writes : "Judging by the domestic architecture the seal cutting and the grace of pottery the Indus civilization was far ahead of the Babylonian at the beginning of the third Millenium B. C." It gives us great joy and great pride to know and to feel that India has been one of the pioneers of civilization perhaps the earliest cradle of culture and that [...] It is stated in the Kalki Purina that Kalki defeated the Buddhists the Jainas and the Mlecchas with the help of king Vigakhaytipa and then introduced the Krta at the end of the Kali yoga. [...] 3.2:4."OITERIOR INDIA OF Rt7FINUS 115 is bounded by the river Indus ; the southern and eastern sides are much greater than the others and project into the Atlantic Ocean 5 and the country becomes of the shape of a rhomboid each of the greater sides exceeding the opposite by :3 000 stadia; and this is the extent of the extremity common to the eastern and southern coast which projects equally on b [...] Ptolemy writes the following in 150 A. D.: " India within the Ganges is bounded on the west by the Paropamisadai and Arakhosia and Gedrosia along their eastern sides already indicated; on the north by Mount Imaos along the Sogdiaioi and the Sakai lying above it; on the east by the river Ganges; and on the south and again on the west by the portion of the Indian Ocean "10. [...] has the mouths of the river Ganges and on the left the promontory of Caligardamna; below this towards the S. East lies the island of Taprobane whence the Ocean begins to be called 5. This was one of the names applied to the whole body of water by which the world was surrounded.
history
Pages
97
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120079
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v S. Aiyangar view
The Marvels of Mohen-Jo-Daro
101-104 K.N. Vaswani view
The Krta Era
105-109 Dhirendra Mookerjee view
“Citerior India of Rufinus Circa 400 A.D.” (A Reply)
110-123 A.C. Purumalil view
History of the Vakatakas
124-138 Y.M. Kale view
The Deportation of William Bolts
139-155 Nandalal Chatterji view
Economic Religious and Social Conditions in Rajputana in the Days of Tod
156-165 Anil Banerjee view
The Treaty of Bhyrowal: December 1846 A Historical Revision
166-177 Jagmohan Mahajan view
Reviews
178-183 unknown view
Select Contents from Periodicals
184-186 unknown view
Our Exchanges
187-188 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iv unknown view

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