Ancient India. From the Earliest Times to the First Century A.D.

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Ancient India. From the Earliest Times to the First Century A.D.

1916

Such then were the first fruits of the study by Europeans of the classical language of Ancient India—a complete revolution in our conception of the nature of human speech and the recovery from the past of some of the lost history of the peoples who in historical times have played a predominant part in the civilization of both India and Europe. [...] But great and far-reaching as has been the influence of the 'discovery ' of the Sanskrit language on the intellectual life of the West no less remarkable are the results which have followed from the application of Western methods of scholarship to the interpretation and elucidation of the ancient literatures and monuments of India. [...] Its geogPaphy is that of ►uru-kshetra the field of the Kurus ' or the eastern portion of the plain which lies between the Sutlej and the Jumna and Panchlia the touutry to the souteast betwc n the Jumna and the Ganges. [...] the eastern half of the State of Pad& and of the Delhi division of the Punjab the Alwar State and adjacent territory in Rajputina the region which lies between the Ganges and the Jumna and the Muttra District in the United Provinces). [...] "Those who dwell in Kura-kahetra to the month of the liataanti and the north of the Driahadvati dwell hi Heaven."" CHAPTER IV s THE PERIOD OF THE BRIHMAXIAS AND UPANISHADS Growth of a prose literature--Comenu of the Briihmapas-- Lanpage-- Geogmphy—The C.atapatha Brihmaga—Its relation to Buddhism and to the ancient Sanskrit epics— The religion of works and the religion of knowledge—The Upanishad
history
Pages
214
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142512
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Frontmatter
i-vii E.J. Rapson view
Chapter I The Sources of the History of Ancient India
1-23 unknown view
Chapter II The Civilizations of India
24-35 unknown view
Chapter III This Period of the Vedas
36-51 unknown view
Chapter IV The Period of the Brahmanas and Upanishads
52-63 unknown view
Chapter V The Rise of Jainism and Buddhism
64-77 unknown view
Chapter VI The Indian Dominions of the Persian and Macedonian Empires
78-98 unknown view
Chapter VII The Maurya Empire
99-112 unknown view
Chapter VIII India After the Decline of the Maurta Empire
113-121 unknown view
Chapter XI The Successors of Alexander the Great
122-135 unknown view
Chapter X Parthian and Scythian Invaders
136-iv unknown view
Index
187-i unknown view

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