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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal February 1849

1849

The learned Wilford in his Gth Essay apparently deems Meru a teple to God but says the Buddhists consider it as the tomb of the son of the spirit of heaven and that their pyramids in which the sacred relies are deposited be their shape what it will are imitations of the worldly twnple of the Supreme Being and which is really the tomb of the first of his embodied forms or of his son—and [...] The Siamese divide the brahmans into two tribes also ; Bryant indeed says that they occupied the country on the banks of the Indus —the Sinthus of the Periplus —Guzerat or Juzerat or Cutch —Cambaia or the Bay of Chinn and that they were Lords of the sea or Pala Semmidq the sea of the PAU or Selandwe or Serindeb or Singhala Dwipa or Seilan or Ceylon. [...] prestha-6-that the language of the jirsA Persian Empire was the mother of the Sanserit and consequently of the Zend and Parsi as well as of Greek Latin and Gothic ; thnt the language of the Assyrians was the parent of the Chaldaic and Pahlavi and that the primary Tartarian laguage also had been current in the same empire although as the Tatars had no books or even letters we cannot wi [...] If it was with the brahmans that " a regular trade was carried on from the accession of the Ptolemies to the throne of Egypt to the conquest of that country by the Romans and which did not cease until the middle bf the4th century when the growing power of the Blusalmans put a stop * As. [...] 115 to it and if we look to the fact that the brahman tribes were most probably subjects of the Greek kings of Bactriana who ruled according to Wilford the countries on the banks of the Indus as far as Sirhind during a period of 129 years —from 255 to 126 B. C. and if we also advert to the intercouse the brahmans must have thus had with the peple of Egypt and with all the ancient countrie
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Pages
99
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
General observations on the Contending Claims to Antiquity of Brahmans and Buddhists by Lieut.-Col. Low
89-131 The Secretaries view
Remains of Greek Sculpture in Potowar by Capt. James Abbott Boundary Commissioner &c
131-137 The Secretaries view
Notice of a Chinese Geographical Work; by J. W. Laidlay Esq. V. P. &c
137-164 The Secretaries view
Miscellaneous
164-178 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for February 1849
179-182 The Secretaries view

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