Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India

The second region is bounded on the north by the jungles at the foot of the Himalayas on the east by the moutain ranges which separate Bengal from Burma on the west by the mountains of Afghanistan and Baluchistan and on the south by the jungles on the northern slope of the Vindhya ranges. [...] The second contains the languages of the Khasi hilimen of Assam the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands and some of the isolated inhabitants of Burma such as the Palaung the Riang and the Wa. [...] The Kannada language is spoken in the south-western part of India consisting of the southern districts of the Bombay Presidency the western districts of the dominions of the Nizam of Haidarabad the Bellary and South Kanara districts of Madras and the state of Mysore. [...] The epic literature refers gion of the to the Asura kings as worshippers of Mahadeva in the majority of cases and the prevalence of phallic worship in the south is a clear indication of the fact that before the Asuras had adoptedRACES AND LANGUAGES 2 I the outward form of worship of the Aryans they were worshippers of the phallic emblem. [...] The affinity between the names of the Indo-Aryan deities in the tablets of treaties between the Thy Date kings of the Mitanni and the Hittites and the forms of the of Indnames of the same deities in the Vedic literature of India Aryan Invasin.