Life in Ancient India in the Age of Mantras

In the Rig Veda the sacrifice was merely a means of influencing the will of the gods in favour of the offerer ; in the Yajur Veda it has. [...] The Purai:tas are as responsible for the absurd megalomania in chronological historical and geographical notions of the Hindus of to-day as the Acharyas of the last millennium for the hankering for escape from the life of the world which colours all aspirations of Hindus and renders them nerveless in the struggle for life among the nations of the world. [...] The earliest sources of the History of The language of the Mantras : its nature The purpose of the Mantras... [...] 2 4 The civilization of the early Dravidians 6 The Aryas " and the " Dasyus " 8 The theory of the Aryan invasion of India 14 The fire-cult of the Aryas... [...] Hence some people are of opinion that the ancient Vedic language was developed out of dialects spoken by hordes of invading tribes who poured into the valley of the Indus in the commencement of the age of the Mantras and who wiped out the pre-existing population.