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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c 1877

1877

The villagers' view of the matter was as usual that the marks were those of the giants and that the little shrine at the top of the hill was the burial-place of a holy man the same as the Chandeshwar account. [...] Moreover the people of the neighbourhood have no tradition of thorigin of the remains or of the markings on them save that they are the work of the giants or the goat's which in their minds means the far past. [...] And so also in India these remains are found not in the plains and open country but in the forests among the fastnesses of the hills in the gorges of the ilimihiyas and Nilgiris on the Highlands of Central India in that Cul-de-sac of the Nfiginir country which was long protected by its natural rampart of the Satpuras with their abattis" of dense forest from the effects of Northern Invasio [...] Maurice Phi" lips of the London Missionary Society arrives at the conclusion that the " tumuli were the burial-places of the non-Aryan aboriginal inhabitants of " the South who arc now represented by the Dravidians and who like the 46 pre-Aryan inhabitants of the North are proved by their language to have " belonged to the same branch of the human family as the Turanians ; that " their anc [...] Nevetheless the titan (Terminalia (tittles tamentosa) the pia' (Ruchanania ladifblia) the wild jaman the mohnO the keond and the arjuna grow luxuriant in the lower valleys while the profuse scarlet flowers of the Butea fronclosa along the slopes of the outer hills impress one with the propriety of the name of Palasas given by the ancients to the coutry now included in the Division of Bi
history
Pages
105
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v The Philological Secretary view
Errata &c Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I for 1877
i-i The Philological Secretary view
Rough Notes on Some Ancient Sculpturings on Rocks in Kaméon Similar to those Found on Monoliths and Rocks in Europe.—by H. Rivett Carnac C. S.
1-15 The Philological Secretary view
The Kaimúr Range.—By Chandrasekhara Bánurji Deputy Magistrate Bongong
16-36 The Philological Secretary view
Note on the old Manipuri Character.—By G. H. Damant C. S. Officiating Political Agent Manipur
36-38 The Philological Secretary view
Are Kálidása’s Herocs Monogamists? —By G. A. Grierson C. S. Rangpur
39-40 The Philological Secretary view
On the Route between Sohár and Cl-Berrymi in 'Omán with a Note on the Zatt or Gipsics in Arabia.—By Lieutenant-Coloncl S. B. Miles
41-60 The Philological Secretary view
The Mo‘allaqah of Lebid with the Life of the Poet as Given in the Kitáb-el-Aghani.—by C. J. Lyall C. S.
61-96 The Philological Secretary view
Backmatter
i-ii The Philological Secretary view

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