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Ancient India-Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India July 1946

1946

Certain signs also of identification are laid down in the texts; Tatpurusha holds the mcituluriga or bijapfiraka a citron in one hand and a rosary (akshamd1c7) in the other.9 The bijaparaka is full of the atoms of the seeds of this 1 liana is the first 'form' in the hierarchy of manifestation of the Supreme Siva; Tatpurusha is next and is followed by Aghora Vämadeva and Sadyojata; they are thu [...] The puram gives word-pictures of the grave-yard in many contexts ' and all these verses may be summarized as follows:— `The grave-yard (kaau) the place of the ancients on the outskirts of the town or on the skirts of the hilly ground an expanse of brackish or alkaline soil overgrown with the tree-spurge (Euphorbia antiquorum or kalli) and other xerophytes and many thorny shrubs full of buried [...] stone cists and the like in which the body or the remains of cremation are interred ; and the last method which is brief and descriptive refers to the placing of the body (or the remains of cremation) into burial urns (tali) the mouth of which was covered by inverting a lid (kavi). [...] The gradual percolation of 'Aryan' ideas into the Tamil culture is noticeable.n the different strata of the Sangain literature and as we approach the close of the period the influence of these ideas gets more and more marked until the two cultures become 15ANCIENT INDIA NO. [...] The ancient name of Arikamedu.... 124 1. THE SITE AND ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND HE classical geographers and the Tamil literature of the `Saligam' age have familiarized I historians with the outlines and some of the details of Indian trade with the West in and after the first century A. D. At its prime the trade was extensive.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
178
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120094
Segment Pages Author Actions
Notes
1-3 R.E.M.W view
The Image of Mahadeva in the Cave-Temple on Elephanta Island
4-8 Stella Kramrisch view
The Megalithic Burials and Urn-Fields of South India in the Light of Tamil Literature and Tradition
9-i K.R. Srinivasan view
Arikamedu: An Indo-Roman Trading-Station on the East Coast of India
17-124 R.E.M. Wheeler view
Archaeological Planning for India: Some of the Factors
125-133 R.E.M.W. view
Technical Section
134-137 unknown view

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