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The Indian Historical Quarterly December 1946

1946

From the birth of Pariksita to the coronation of Nanda one thousand years increased by fifteen are to be known." It has been proved by myself in the April number of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ("Maurya chronology and connected problems.") that Candragupta Maurya the founder of the Maurya dynasty came to the [...] This is a description of the kingdom of This at the end of the famous Greek work compiled in the 1st century A. D. known under the name of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. [...] In the first sentence we are told parenthetically that "the sea outside ends in a land called This." As the passage begins with a direction to the north to any man of common sense the passage would mean that at the end of the gulf to the north stood the country of This and still more to the north close to the arctic zones the Black Sea (Pontus) and the Caspian Sea stood the city called Thin [...] 3I—glokas 9 and 10) as present in the Rajasuya sacrifice of Yudhisthira with his hosts of Mlecchas and dwellers of the sea-coast and when we take note of the fact that in historical times the kingdom of Pragjyotisa included Sylhet Tippera and Noakhali districts and thus extended up to the sea-coast at the head-waters of the Gulf of the Ganges we at once realise that the author of the Periplus [...] That the British Government was not open to the charge of fomenting the internal disorders of Afghanistan is clear from the following reply given by the Punjab Government to the request of Sher Ali for assitance in the shape of 6 000 muskets and a suitable sum of money'''- "As the desire of this Government to see the members of the Ameer's family reconciled is thoroughly sincere it be:ng neith
history
Pages
86
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Narendra Law view
New Lights on the history of Assam
245-252 N. K. Bhattasali view
The Afghan War of Succession (1863-1869)
253-262 Dharm Pal view
Indian Philosophy and Hedonism
263-268 M. Hiriyanna view
State and Citizen in Ancient India
269-276 A. S. Banerjee view
Origin of the Name ‘Bengal’
277-285 N. N. Gupta view
Govindagupta a New Gupta Emperor
286-290 Agan Nath view
Studies in Indian Architecture
291-299 K. R. Pisharoti view
A Note on the Later Sotnavamgis
300-307 Dines Sircar view
Mirja Raja Jaisingh and Shivaji
307-308 C. Raja view
Were the Vakatakas the Rulers of Agmaka ?
309-315 V. V. Mirashi view
The Location of Malaya
315-315 Dines Sircar view
Ghatotkacagupta
316-319 Parmeshwar Gupta view
Reviews
320-322 N. Dutt view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
323-325 unknown view
Bibliographical Notes
326-327 unknown view

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