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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) November 1923

1923

The first and the greatest and at the same time the most difficult of all the diffieult problems in the history of Indian thought is that of the age of the redo. [...] It seems to me impossible to account for the development of the Vedic literature from the earliest hymns of the 4gveda to the later Upanishads and for the historical and political changes—which muit have taken place from the times of the Bgveda to the period of the Sutra literature which immediately followed the Upanishads within the space of 600 or 700 years from 1200 to 600 or 500 B. C. Let us r [...] Now there cannot be the least doubt that of all the works that belonged to the Veda the Hymna of the.Z4veda are the oldest this is proved beyond doubt by the language of the hymns which represents a much older form of Indian speech than the language of the Bramanas. [...] Another even more striking example of the distance between the hymns of the Rgveda and the Brithmanas is the legend of gunaRepa in the Aitareya-Brahmana. [...] The Bharatas lived on the banks of the Sarasvati the Drsadvati and the Apaya in their upper courses and the Yadus and the Turbasas lived156 THE eaLerri A REVIEW NOV.
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Pages
222
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Age of the Veda
119-139 W. Winternitz view
Agriculture and Agricultural Cattle in India
140-153 Nilananda Chatterjee view
A Chapter of Rigvedic History
154-169 Abinas Das view
Impressions about the Tribes of Baluchistan
170-173 B.A. Gupte view
The Permanent Settlement of Bengal
174-184 M.M.S. view
The Quadruple Empire
185-207 K.C. Sen view
Early English Theatre and the Bengali Drama
208-210 Sailendranath Mitra view
Vengeance is Mine
211-221 Kanaiyalal Munshi view
The Poetry of Aurobindo Ghose
222-230 Dhirendranath Ghosh view
The Great Drought
231-254 A. Albers view
A Notable Trial
255-263 unknown view
Post Graduate Studies
264-274 unknown view
The Spirit of The Pujas
275-279 unknown view
Reviews
280-283 Y.J.T. view
Ourselves
284-338 unknown view

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