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The Social History of Kamarupa
1922
THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF KAMARUPA 7 one another the words Pani and Asura appear in one and the same hymn of the Atharva-Sahitd.6 In the Rik-Samhitd the earliest literary work extant in the world mention is made in speaking of the rise of the Vedic Aryans of two hostile camps—in the one being the Devas and the Asuras Who were given to sacrifice and in thf other being the Paths and the Dasyus [...] the Canaanite sailors were spoken of as the redmen on account of their sun-burnt skin."29 The writer of the above article has come to the conclusion that the "red sea" bounding the original home of the Phcenicians is identical with the Persian Gulf. [...] The date of the stread of Phoencian culture over Asia Minor and Southern Europe Struggle for suprmacy in the Western world btween the Panis and the Vedic Aryans.28 THE EliCENICIANS IN EASTERN INDIA of the Panis that the Vedic culture of India vas spread not only in Babylon but in the far-off countries of Asia Minor and Syria. [...] influence of the Parris in India the Ka4ites and their ally the Mitannis also succeeded gradually in weakening the influence of the Phoenicians in Asia Minor till ultimately the Khattis ( known as Kheta-Khattis or Hittites ) an ally of the Mitannis succeeded in usurping all the powers of the Phoenicians. [...] which flowed into the Indus and then jointly poured itself Out into the sea.52 The Tasatala of the Bhagvata seems to he identical with the Ifintolto the We are told in the Padma-purana (Siishti-khanda Chapter 19) that upon the murder of the Asura Vritra the Kalakeyas in great fright fled to the shores of the furious sea in the Dekkan.
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