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Proceedings and Transactions of the First Oriental Conference Poona

1922

The absence of the compound name may be used as an argument to prove that the religion of the ggveda was earlier than the Chaldean and Mazdean religions and that the borrowing was rather the other way. [...] The things praised are the rise of the dawn sunrise Agni's parentage his impregnating of the herbs his leadeship in sacrifice conflagrations Agni's various forms as he appears in the three regions the two sisters—the black and the white the hidden and the open (night and day) the two cows the mother and daughter the one even and the other avow (earth and heaven). [...] The two wings of the argument are :- (1) That a comparison of the language of the Avesta with that of the I?gveda proves that the Aryans could not have entered the North West of India much before 1 300. [...] The sounds of the Veda are deduced from the oral tradition still existing the directions of the Priligikhyas the treatment of sounds in sandhi and so on. [...] Glancing at the history of Spanish we shall want to know whether the original contact with the Iberians (in the 2nd century B. C.) has influenced the language as much as or less than the occupation by the Visigoths in the 6th century A. D. or the contact with Arabic from the eighth to the thirteenth century.
humanities general
Pages
479
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140366
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii unknown view
Vedic Asura
1-76 unknown view
Avesta
77-112 unknown view
Pali and Buddhism
113-138 unknown view
“Philology and Prakrts”
139-186 unknown view
Classical Literature
187-226 unknown view
Philosophy
227-302 unknown view
Archaeology
303-348 unknown view
Ancient History
349-418 unknown view
Technical Sciences
419-460 unknown view
Persian
i-470 unknown view

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