The Carmichael Lectures  1918. Lectures on the Ancient History of India On the Period from 650 to 325 B.C. Delivered in February  1918

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The Carmichael Lectures 1918. Lectures on the Ancient History of India On the Period from 650 to 325 B.C. Delivered in February 1918

1919

Megathenes' statement that the Pandyas of the south were connected with the Jumna and Mathura seems to be founded on fact because the Greek writers Pliny and Ptolemy tell us that the capital of the Pandyas in the south was Modoura. [...] It thus seems that on the bank of the Godavari we had a colony from the country of of which the older Pratishthana was the capital and it is probable that w e had here a colony of the Aila tribe. [...] all villages along the Western Ghats= showing that in their southward movement they clung to the highlands and peopled the skirts of the present province of Mysore and the Coimbatore and Madura Districts— a coclusion which agrees with that just drawn from the find-spots of the Agoka and Cave Inscriptions in Southern India. [...] This will be seen from the fact that "Brahui the language of the mountaineers in the Khanship of Kelat in Beluchistan contains not only some Dravidian words but a consideable infusion of distinctively Dravidian forms and idioms" 2. The discovery of this Dravidian element in a language spoken beyond the Indus tends to show that the Dravidians like the Aryans the Scythians and so forth mus [...] 27 a Sanskritised form of the well-known Canarese word midiehe which is explained by Kittel's Dictionary as a grasshopper a locust" and which is used in this sense to this day in the Dharwar District of the Bombay Presidency Scholars are unanimous on the point that the Chhandogya-Upanishad is one of the earliest of the Upanishads.
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Pages
230
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142574
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xii D.R. Bhandarkar view
Lecture I. Aryan Colonisation of Southern India and Ceylon
1-41 unknown view
Lecture II. Political History
42-86 unknown view
Lecture III. Administrative History
87-139 unknown view
Lecture IV. Administrative History (Contd.)
140-184 unknown view
Appendix
185-192 unknown view
Index
193-218 unknown view

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