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Encyclopaedia and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial Industrial and Scientific Products of the Mineral Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms Useful Arts and Manufactures

1873

He considers the Ay of the Tatars the Yu of the Chinese and the Ayu of the Poorans. to indicate the great Indu (Lunar) progenitor of the three races. [...] The Vedic deities Indra god of the firmament Varuna god of the waters Yama the judge of the dead Agni god of fire Surya the sun Soma or Chandra the moon Vayu the god of winds the Marut the Aditya were mere personifications of the powers of nature which were invoked for aid or their wrath deprecated. [...] The Naga Mikir Kchari Garo and Kassia are the five races in whose possession chiefly are the broad higlands of the Assam chain extending from the N. E. near the head of the Kynduayn and Nairup on one side along the valley of the Bramaputra to its southern bend round the wesern extremity of the chain and on the other side south-westerly along the valley of the Burak and Surm [...] N SNAGA have the numerous Naga and Shigpo dialects the Mikir and Angami the languages of the Khasaia and Jaintia hillrnen the Boro in Cchar and the Garo in the hills of that name. [...] Ltham is of opinion that the nations on the boders of British India in the north-west the north-east and east form an ethnological group which contains the Tibetans the Nepal tribes several populations of the Sub-Himalayan range the Burmese the Siamese the Natives of Pegu the Cambojians the Cochin Chinese and the Chinese in populations which cover perhaps one-fifth of Asia.
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1016
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