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The History of Antiquity

1880

Closely allied to these nations are the slim and black Bhillas of small stature who inhabit the western slopes of the Vindhyas to the sea ; and the Kolas who dwell in the mountainous district of Surashtra (Guzerat) and to this clay form two-thirds of the inhabitants of this district.1 On the eastern declivities and spurs of the Vindhyas we find in the south the Kandas in the north the Paharia [...] In the epos of the Indians the daughter of the king of the Gandharas is married to the king of the Bharatas who lie between the Yamuna and the Ganges and the Buddhist wriings speak of the Brahmans of the Gandarii as the worst in India.2 In the campaign of Xerxes Herodotus separates the Gandarii from the rest of the Indians who are subject to the Persian kingdom. [...] The strength of the tiger which according to Megasthenes is twice the size of the lion the docility of the elephant the splendour of the birds were the admiration of the Greeks. [...] The " Sapta sindhava" of the Rigveda are no doubt the hapla ham of the Avesta and in the form Harahvaiti the Arachotus of the Greeks we again find the Sarasvati in the east of the table-land of Iran. [...] The daughter is the milkmaid (duhitar) the consort of the prince is even in later poems the buffalo-cow (»lahial) the prince is at times the coherd or protector of cows (ggpa) the assembly of the tribe and the fold which encloses the cows are called by the same name (platha) and the word expressing a feud (gaviushthi) denotes in the first instance the desire for cows.
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Pages
566
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143762
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Evelyn Abbott view
Book V. The Arians on the Indus and the Ganges
i-312 Evelyn Abbott view
Book VI. Buddhists and Brahmans
313-558 Evelyn Abbott view
Backmatter
i-ii Evelyn Abbott view

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