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University of Calcutta. Journal of the Department of Letters

1921

Professor Macdonell's text frequently reveals him as still unemancipated from the thraldom of the old orthodox notion that the iiikla Aryas and the Dark Warrior Clans were all ethnically identical ; and lie even represents the Dacyrie and the Dame as one and the same as both meaing " fiends " as outside the pale of the Varo Folk and as eventually becoming the 4th caste under the later name of [...] Thus the Bharatas to whom belonged the royal race of the Kurus in the epic and from whom the very name of the Malersbheirata which describes the greats war of the Sums is derived were doubtless absorbed in whia came to be called the Kuru nation. [...] We hear no more of the Indus and its tributaries; for the geographical data of all the recensions of the Yitjareeda point to the territory in the middle of Northern India occupied by the neighbouing peoples of the Kurus and Panda:tins. [...] days at the time of the departure of the Tiltsfis under Sudas ; that as a group " the Five " really remained faithful to Sudas and even accompanied him eastward ; that the Dasytt-led Bbaratas pursued up to the rartishni where a rear-guard action was fought and won by Sudas ; that subsequently the Bharatas followed the strategically retreating " Five" as far as the the Vipac and Cutudri.; and [...] To explain the difference of colour of skin ant hair between the two groups of Vedic Aryas we have to assume that the ancestors of the ' white and yellow-haired' group migrated to India from the temperate region in the far North and the dark section bad their home in the tropics.
humanities general
Pages
350
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120022
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Indo-Aryan Ethnic Origins
1-i H. Hannah view
Four Ancient Yaksa Statues
47-84 Ramaprasad Chanda view
Vatsyayana—the Author of the Kamasutra : Date and Place of Origin
85-122 Haranchandra Chakladar view
On a Bihari Ceremonial Worshiq of Totemistic Origin
123-134 Sarat Mitra view
What is Buddhism ?
135-208 R. Kimura view
Aryanism and the Rig-Vedic Age
209-236 H. Hannah view
The Revenue Policy of Shivaji
237-270 Surendra Sen view
The Aryans of India
271-288 Bijaychandra Mazumdar view
On the Karma Dharma Festival of North Bihar and its Munda Analogues
289-304 Sarat Mitra view
Water Transport in Mediaeval India
305-324 Bejoykumar Sarkar view
Article
i-xvi unknown view

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