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The Story of the Nations. Vedic India - As Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda

1899

It will embrace the results attained by the study of the Atharva-Veda the Brahmanas the Upanishads the Laws and a synopsis at least of the great epics. [...] Were we to include the extreme Northeast (Assam) and the Indian lands east of the mouths of the Ganges and the Indian Ocean —(Burma Siam etc.)—we should obtain even more imposing parallels ; but we are not concerned in the present work with more than the great western penisula —nor strictly speaking with the whole of that ; since the beginnings of political and social life and the spiritual [...] The monsoon being abruptly stopped as well as the clouds by the double Himalayan wall besides getting involved in the countless narrow valleys and winding passes of the intricate highlands which lead up to it combined with the tremendous accumulation of electricity produces the most terific thunderstorms of the world—and thus the Himalayas detain and confiscate for the exclusive benefit of [...] above the usual rates and as the number of births greatly diminished at the same time and - the normal proportions were not restored until 1880 the total of the population was found in this year to have actually decreased during the last four years instead of increasing at a moderate but steady rate as is the case wherever the normal law of life-statitics is undisturbed and the number of b [...] After the fourth and lowest of the Himalayan terraces has sloped down into the low hot riverland which with only a slight swelling to serve as watershed between the systems of the Indus and the Ganges stretches across from sea to sea from the mouth of one of these royal rivers to that of the other forming a wide belt of plain the ground slopes up again southward into the VINDI-1YA range w
philosophy religion
Pages
478
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146488
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiii Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter I. The Wonderland of the East
1-47 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter II. The Âryas
48-76 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter III. The Sources of Our Knowledge
77-102 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter IV. The Vedas
103-130 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter V. The Rig-Veda: The Older Gods
131-190 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter VI. The Rig-Veda: The Storm-Myth—The Sun-and-Dawn Myth
191-236 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter VII. The Rig-Veda: Lesser and Later Gods.—Story Myths
237-273 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter VIII. The Rig-Veda: Early History
274-348 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter IX. The Rig-Veda : Early Culture
349-381 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter X. The Rig-Veda: Sacrifice
382-413 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Chapter XI. The Rig-Veda: Cosmogony.—Philosophy.—Retrospect
414-440 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Principal Works Read or Consulted in the Preparation of the Present Volume
441-444 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Index
445-457 Zénaïde Ragozin view
Backmatter
i-vi Zénaïde Ragozin view

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