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Antiquities of India. An Account of the History and Culture of Ancient Hindustan

1913

It therefore begins with an outline of the historical changes through which India has passed from the earliest days down to the beginning of the thirteenth century and thence proceeds to sketch the conditions of society as revealed by literature and the monuments the constitution and administration of the State the chief religious rituals the nature of the scientific knowledge possessed by the [...] In one of the earliest of these later irruptions an Aryan tribe or group of tribes akin in blood and language to the first invaders climbed over the wild mountains of the Hindu Kush through Gilgit and Chitral on the north of the Panjab and at length gained a footing on the plains of the upper Ganges and Samna. [...] It seems at any rate clear that it The Midland extended from the Himalayas on the north to the Vindhya Hills on the south and from Sahrind (vulgo Sirhind) in the Eastern Punjab on the west to the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna on the east. [...] Here perhaps were composed the later hymns of the Rig-vada ; here the manifold and fluctuating cults of the litig-vada crystallised into the systematic ritualism of the Bamaps ; here arose as an offshoot of the latter the gnosis of the Upanishads which shew us how Bramans passing beyond the thought of material welfare and its encompassment by works of formal sacrifice sought eternal liberat [...] In the heart of Northern India to the west and south-west of the bed of the Middle Ganges was the kingdom of the Pafichalas a confederacy which included the great cities of Mathuri (Muttra) in the country of the gaurasenis Kaugmbi (Kosam) and Kanyakubja (Kanauj).
history
Pages
348
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146244
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xvi Lionel Barnett view
Chapter I Outlines of the Early History and Civilisation of India
1-36 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter II Chronology of India to the Year 1200 A.D.
37-95 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter III Law and Government
96-135 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter IV Vedic Ritual
136-178 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter V Non-Vedic Rituals Yōga and Magic
179-187 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter VI Astronomy Geography and Cosmography
188-205 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter VII Weights and Measures : Coinage
206-219 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter VIII Medicine
220-224 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter IX Writing
225-231 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter X Architecture
232-249 Lionel Barnett view
Chapter XI Sculpture and Painting
250-261 Lionel Barnett view
Addenda
262-262 Lionel Barnett view
Index
263-306 Lionel Barnett view

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