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Ancient India

1911

The new teachings of the latter and thappeal they made to the people have long been reconized as the potent cause of the development of the languages of the people. [...] The merciful doctrines he taught the hospitals he built both for man and animal the interest he took to send the Gospel of the Enlightened far and wide and the pains he bestowed upon the collecting and consolidating of the teaching of the Great One are matters of common knowledge. [...] The overthrow of the Guptas brings Indian history to almost the end of the sixth century A. D. Turning to the Dekhan during the period the diintegration that came upon it in consequence of the successful wars of the Melva Kshetrapas continued and the whole region was broken up into a number of petty principalities. [...] Out of the confusion caused by the incursions of Mihiragula the Hun king of Sagala (the capital of ancient Madra Dêsa) there arose in the line of march of the enemy and in the far-famed region of battles where more than once the fate of India was to be decided a chieftain by name Prabhikaravardhana who was connected by marriage with the imperial Guptas. [...] A sad calamity overtook the Chiqukyas about the latter half of the seventh century A. D. This was the overthrow of their dynasty and the usurpation of the Chalukya Empire by the Rishtrakritas with their capital farther and therefore safer from the Pallavas.
history
Pages
467
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142560
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Frontmatter
i-xiv S. Aiyangar view
Chapter I. A Historical Survey up to A.D. 700
1-28 unknown view
Chapter II. History of South India
29-39 unknown view
Chapter III. Struggle for Empire in South India
40-53 unknown view
Chapter IV. India at the Dawn of the Christian Era
54-75 unknown view
Chapter V. The Mysore State—a Retrospect
76-89 unknown view
Chapter VI. The Chola Empire in South India
90-191 unknown view
Chapter VII. Sri Ramanujacharya his Life and Times
192-221 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Making of Mysore
222-253 unknown view
Chapter IX. Vishnuvardhana
254-262 unknown view
Chapter X. Bijjala
263-271 unknown view
Chapter XI. Mysore Under the Wodeyars
272-313 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Value of Literature in the Construction of Indian History
314-329 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Third Tamil Sakgam
330-335 unknown view
Chapter XIV. The Augustan Age of Tamil Literature
336-372 unknown view
Chapter XV. Some Points in Tamil Literary History
373-384 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Self-Immolation which is Not Sati
385-389 unknown view
Chapter XVII. The Agnikula : The Fire-Race
390-395 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. The Age of Nammalvar
396-401 unknown view
Chapter XIX. Tiruimangai Alvar and his Date
402-414 unknown view
Notes
415-415 unknown view
Errata
416-418 unknown view
Index
419-450 unknown view

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