Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture

This is clear from the fact that such rivers and streams as the Kubha or the Kabul the Krumu or the Kurum and the Gomati or the Gomal are referred to in the Rig-Veda. [...] DASA AND SUDRA 3 identifies the Parris with the Parnians of Strabo the Dasas with Dahae the Päravatas with the Parautai of Ptolemy and Brishaya with the Barsacutns of Arrian and above all the river Sarasvati where the battle took place not with the Sarasvati of the Panjab but with the Haraqaiti that is the Arghandab of Arachosia.4 Similarly Ludwig sees several references to the Pareus or [...] The eastern boundary of Arianë is the Indus ; and the southern the Indian Ocean from the mouth of the Indus to the Persian Gulf. [...] What the hymn means is that by the dint of Mawriêya itnintida the Muni can attain to the felloship of the deities of the air the Vilyus the Rudras the Apsarases and the Gandharvas and endowed like them with. [...] "A stdent of the Hinduism of the masses " they say " is certain to be struck by (I) the veneration of the cow (2) the popularity of Gan6Sa and (3) the ubiquitous appearance of the bull and the snake." "Is there a hint " they ask " of any one of them in a context incontestably Aryan ? " "They fit the ideas of the Indiansation of the Aryans more readily than anything We can call the Aryanis