In the little work which in association with your Lordship’s name and at the request of the Institution before which it was delivered I now lay before the public I have endeavoured to to glean from the oldest compositions of the Hindus the Vedas and especially from the first of them the Rig-Veda—of which two of the others the Sama and Yajur are principally extracts while the fourth the At [...] Age of Oldest Indian Literature 13 Age of the Vedas 15 Origin of the A’ryas 17 Settlement of the A’ryas in India 19 The A’ryas on the banks of the Indus 21 Rivers mentioned in the Vedas 22 Extension of the A’ryas in India 25 The Social Life of the A A’ryas 29 Oldest Literature of the Indians handed down memorially 34 Origin of the Indian Alphabets 35 Poetical form of the Vedas 37 Nature of the Ved [...] The India of the present day includes the whole country lying between the Hindu Kush and the Himalaya mountains on the north and the island of Ceylon on the south; and between the coasts of Sindh Gujarat the Konkan and Malabar on the west and the confines of China Burmah and the shores of Orissa and Coromandel on the east. [...] It was only or principally the Panchanada the Penta-potamia of the Greeks or Panjab the Land-of-the-five waters of later times comprising the districts of the affluents of the Indus denominated in the ancient Sanskrit the Sinahuh or Sindhus of which Indus is the equivalent the sibilant letter s having been transmuted according to well-known usage into easily The revenue of the Indian Go [...] In another of the hymns of the Rig-Veda the rivers Vipait-the equivalent according to etymlogy and to the Brahmanical commentator on the Veda of the Vipaishai of the Maha'bhara'ta and orgin of the present Be'as Lhe Hyphasis or Bibasis of the Greeks —and the Chhutudr'i in later times the Shatudri or Satlej —are mentioned as holding a coversation with the sage Vishvamitra the author of
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