Historical Studies and Recreations

The descent of the Chinese from the Kshetriyas has been supported by a text of Menu which says that many families of the military class having gradually abandoned the ordinances of the 17ed8. lived in a state of degradation such as the people of Pandraka and Adra those of Dravira and Camboja the Yavanas and Micas the Paradas and Pahlavas the Chinas and other nations ;" and Sir Will [...] The efforts of the first two dynasties were mainly confined to the clearance of the country the formation of villages and the introduction among the people of agriculture and the pastoral and domestic arts. [...] It contains also some of the largest and most celebrated rivers such as the Ganges the Indus the Mahanadi and the Nermudda which maintain an amazing degree of fertility throughout the land that suffices not only to satisfy the wants of its own people but also to supply the rest of the world with some of the most valuable necessaries of life. [...] Regarding the flood itself there are several accounts which however need not be noticed as they mainly refer to such recondite subjects as the wars between the elephants and the crocodiles the churning of the ocean the fishing up of the radon from the bottom of the sea the uplifting of the earth on the tusk of a boar and the like. [...] While fifty-seven princes of the Solar line are named from Ikshwaku to Rama only forty-eight princes of the Lunar race are mentioned from the founder of the dynasty to the era of the Pandavas ; so that considering that the age of the Ma/cab/drat was somewhat later than that of the Rcimciyana the reigns of the Lunar sovereigns must as a general rule have been longer than those of the Solar sov