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The Carmichael Lectures 1918. Lectures on the Ancient History of India on the Period from 650 to 325 B.C. Delivered in February 1918

1919

Of these the A ndliras, Pulindas and gabaras at any rate are known from the Mahabharata, Ramavana and Puranas to have been tribes of Southern India ; and though the exact provinces inhabited by them in the time of the Aitareya Brabin:Ina cannot he definitely settled, it cannot for a moment be doubted that they lived to the south of the Vindhyas and that the Aryans had already come in contact with [...] Megas- thenes' statement that the Pandyas of the south were connected with the Jumna and Mathura seems to be founded on fact, because the Greek writers, Pliny and Ptolemy, tell us that the capital of the Pandyas in the south was Modoura, 9 i. e. , Madura, the principal town of the district of the same name in the Madras Presidency. [...] It thus seems that on the hank of the Godavari we had a colony from the country of of which the older Pratishthana was the capital, and it is probable that we had here a colony of the Aila tribe. [...] This will be seen from the fact that "Brahui, the language of the mountaineers in the Khanship of Kelat in Beluchistan, contains not only some Dravidian words, but a consider- able infusion of distinctively Dravidian forms and idioms" z. The discovery of this Dravidian element in a language spoken beyond the Indus tends to show that the Dravidians, like the Aryans, the Scythians, and so forth, mu [...] miqiche which is explained by Kittel% Dictionary as a grasshopper, a locust" and which is used in this sense to this day in the Dharwar District of the Bombay Presidency Scholars are unanimous on the point that the Chhandogya-Upanishad is one of the earliest of the Upanishads.
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Pages
230
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
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Frontmatter
i-xii D. R. Bhandarkar view
Lecture I. Aryan Colonisation of Southern India and Ceylon
1-41 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Lecture II. Political History
42-86 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Lecture III. Administrative History
87-139 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Lecture—IV. Administrative History
140-184 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Appendix
185-192 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Index
193-218 D. R. Bhandarkar view

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