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The Indian Historical Quarterly March 1925

1925

102C2 INTRODUCTION reconsider the question about the date of the Aryan invasion of India in the light of these new finds and it is probable that we shall arrive at results which are calculated to modify our -ideas about the history of the Aryan and the IndEuropean periods in the history of our race. [...] In this spirit he has revived the older idea that it is to the Avesta that we must look for evidence of the first weight in estimating both the date and the place of composition of the I.?gveda and he has arrived at the conclusion that the period 'of Zoroaster's activity fell about 550 B. O. and that the.Z?gveda was in large measure contemporaneous with the Avesta and was composed during the per [...] Moreover he attacked the practice of the sacrifice of animals disapproved of the Haoma offering and of drunkenness ignored the cult of the dog a remnant from the period of nomadic life and apparently did not approve the practice of the Magoi in exposing the bodies of the dead to dogs and birds. [...] THE DATE OF ZORPASTER AND THE VGVEDA it recorded in connexion with the effort of Kroisos to burn himself on the fall of Sardis before the unexpected Persian attack that the Persians remembered the rule of Zoroaster against the defiling of the fire by burning the dead or othewise. [...] The form of the name however obviously represents an older form than the Ahura Mazdah of the Avesta and Rommel who discovered the reference suggeted that the borrowing of the name should be assigned to the Kassite period of Babylonian history say 1700 to 1200 B. 0. This would induce us to put the worship of Ahura Mazdtih as.
history
Pages
227
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii Narendra Law view
Introduction
1-4 Sten Konow view
The Date of Zoroaster and the Rgveda
4-17 A. Berriedale Keith view
The Northern Buddhism
18-30 Haraprasad Sastri view
Bharavi and Dandin
31-36 S. K. De view
Some Aspects of the Economic Life in Ancient India
36-42 Prafulla Basu view
The Aryan Rule of India
42-50 W. F. Gunawardhana view
Message from Barhut Jataka Labels
50-58 B. M. Barua view
The Vicitra Natak
59-68 Indubhushan Banerji view
Bengal School of Art
69-79 Satischandra Mitra view
Rama Raya Regent of Vijayanagara (1542-1565)
79-85 H. Heras view
Seniya Bimbisara
86-87 H. C. Raychaudhuri view
Sumerians in India
88-91 L. A. Waddell view
Some Observations on Pusyamitra and his Empire
91-94 R. C. Mazumdar view
Politics and Political History in the Mahabharata
94-99 Narayan Banerjee view
Etymologies of Kubha Lagh- Cagh- Gevaya and Laghulo
100-102 M. Shahidullah view
The Bhasa Problem
103-111 K. R. Pisharoti view
Some Wall-Paintings from Kelaniya
111-116 Stella Kramrisch view
Pavapuri and its Temple Prasasti
116-119 Puran Nahar view
The Mandukya Upanisad and the Gaudapada Karikas
119-125 Vidhushekhar Bhattacharya view
Laksmana Sena’s Flight from Nadia
126-129 C. V. Vaiya view
Rasatala or the Under-World
130-136 Nundo Dey view
The Kosalas in Ancient India
137-166 Bimala Law view
Oriental Studies in Russia
167-171 Bimala Law view
Progress of Historical Research in the Madras Presidency
172-176 Srinivasaciiari view
Recent Discoveries in Sind and the Punjab
176-179 S. K. Chatterjee view
The All-India Oriental Conference (Third Session)
179-184 S. K. De view
The Date of Manik Ganguli’s Dharma Mangal
185-185 Muhammad Shahidullah view
Oriental Studies in Japan
185-186 R. Kimura view
Review
187-191 unknown view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
192-196 unknown view
Bibliographical Notes
197-198 unknown view
Supplement to ‘Miscellany’
199-201 unknown view

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