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Reprint from the K.B.Pathak Commemoration Volume

1934

A fresh horde has been discovered in the bed of the river Jumna adjacent to the site trditionally assigned to the ancient citadel of Karhsa the Asura chief.4 They will be referred to in the course of the present discussion mainly for the purpose of comparison and contrast. [...] Buxar ( in the district of Shahabad Bihar and Orissa ) is said to have been the home of many of the authors of the Vedic hymns and to have been called originally reda arlha i. c. the womb or origin of the Vedas. [...] It revealed glimpses of a pre-Aryan Asura stronghold and the youthful Rama's exploits against them to safeguard Vivamitra's sacrifices as described in the Ramayana Balakancia Sargas 19 25 and 26.1 The site at Buxar is an extensive mound about a quarter of a mile in length rising about 3o feet from the present level of the town and 52 feet from the bed of the Ganges. [...] Reconnoitring and surface exploration were carried on along the continuation of the escarpetnent both to the right and the left revealing the outer wall of the city. [...] The nose resembles ancient Chaldean and Elamite types.; In the treament of the nose this type may be assigned to some part of the second millennium B. C. Culture Sequence : These two strata of terracotta in the Gangetic valley preceding the primitive stone Yaksas of the 4th century B. c. point to the pre-Aryan culture-currents.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
25
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141373
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Remain of a Prehistoric Civilisation in the Ganeticvalley
248-261 unknown view

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