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Lectures on the Economic Condition of Ancient India

1922

Certain it is that the word . ,ti. ,r2,ra is the one word in the -eda which distinguishes the conquerors as a class, or even as t ea,:ste. , from the ahorif7incs of the country. " ' Indeed, it has been admitted oil all hands that cultivation of the soil was known to the Indians before they Neparated from the Iranians„ as is *inOicated by the identity of expressions Max Mailer's th4. 94. 3ry that, Aryac [...] it has; been noted in recent, times that the natives in this region . speak of the rivrir as the " sea of Sindh ; " and indeed the oiiinthn ricer") in . selk-49. n1 passaa:Ps of the Rig Ve lu has practioally the svnse . of the Atelt. aphOrSueIi i NiVtAlld lx Ilstld by a 'people. [...] it is Int altogether satithwtory to restrict such references livith Zimmer to the liroad sh earn of the Indus after the union of that river with the tribithiries of the Panjab. °' And zezain - is a Ore- quent word in the Wu; Veda and 17-kter. [...] There are references to the treasures of the ocean, perhaps pearls or the gains of trade and the story ofBlitijuu seem to allude to marine navigation. ' Mercantile and trading habits are closely con- nected with the construction of ships and ship- ping, and there are numerous references to this in the Vedas. [...] I One passage is particularly significant as referring to the weaving and bleacLintr of sheep's wool, "weaving the raiment of the sheep and making raiment beautiful,"3 while in the AI/larva 1. -9. da, a Nvoolen "coverlet is mentioned. ' There is no doubt that ihewool of the sheep was reguisi- tinned for the Sinma filter. ' and the reference to Sri indicates the nse of linen corselets. ' And well mig
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Pages
184
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xv J.N. Samaddar view
Introductory
1-5 unknown view
Lecture I Premitive Economic Leads
6-39 unknown view
Lecture II Economic Leads of an Early Hindu Law-Giver
40-66 unknown view
Lecture III the Ramayana from the Economic Point
67-82 unknown view
Lectutre IV Some Economic Teachings of the Mahabahrata
83-105 unknown view
Lecture V The Imperial Mauryas and the Economic Development
106-136 unknown view
Lecture VI Economic Life in the Jataka
137-iii unknown view
Index
161-165 unknown view
A New Opinions
i-i unknown view

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