Ancient India, 2000 B. C.-800 A. D.Longmans, Green, and Company, 1893 - 196 pages |
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... Ganges , B.C. 1400-1000 . From the Punjab the Hindus began to pour down along the course of the Ganges , until in a few centuries the whole of the Gangetic basin , from the Northern mountains to Benáres and Behar , became the seat of ...
... Ganges , B.C. 1400-1000 . From the Punjab the Hindus began to pour down along the course of the Ganges , until in a few centuries the whole of the Gangetic basin , from the Northern mountains to Benáres and Behar , became the seat of ...
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... the banks of the Jumna and the Ganges settled in Gujrat and founded the ancient seaport of Dvaraka ; and it is supposed that merchants from this place sailing to the extreme south of India B.C. 2000-1400 . ] 7 Introduction .
... the banks of the Jumna and the Ganges settled in Gujrat and founded the ancient seaport of Dvaraka ; and it is supposed that merchants from this place sailing to the extreme south of India B.C. 2000-1400 . ] 7 Introduction .
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... Ganges . The stream of emi- grants and colonists increased from age to age , until the banks of the Ganges were studded with fair villages and towns surpassing in wealth and civilization those of the mother - land , Punjab . In the Rig ...
... Ganges . The stream of emi- grants and colonists increased from age to age , until the banks of the Ganges were studded with fair villages and towns surpassing in wealth and civilization those of the mother - land , Punjab . In the Rig ...
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... Ganges . The nation was still known as the Bháratas , or under the newer name of Kurus , from the name of their kings , and they built their capital at Hastinapura , on the Ganges . The Panchálas also came from the Punjab . The Pun- jab ...
... Ganges . The nation was still known as the Bháratas , or under the newer name of Kurus , from the name of their kings , and they built their capital at Hastinapura , on the Ganges . The Panchálas also came from the Punjab . The Pun- jab ...
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... Ganges and the Jumna over three thousand years ago . Indeed , as we study the state of the Hindu races of this epoch , each race forming a separate community and a kingdom of its own , and all races rejoicing in the same language , the ...
... Ganges and the Jumna over three thousand years ago . Indeed , as we study the state of the Hindu races of this epoch , each race forming a separate community and a kingdom of its own , and all races rejoicing in the same language , the ...
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Page 170 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 114 - ... whereas among other nations it is usual, in the contests of war, to ravage the soil, and thus to reduce it to an uncultivated waste, among the Indians, on the contrary, by whom husbandmen are regarded as a class that is sacred and inviolable, the tillers of the soil, even when battle is raging in their neighbourhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger, for the combatants on either side in waging the conflict make carnage of each other, but allow those engaged in husbandry to remain quite...
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Page 167 - For our purpose, the great value of the study of these Indian examples is that it widens so immensely our basis for architectural criticism. It is only by becoming familiar with forms so utterly dissimilar from those we have hitherto been conversant with, that we perceive how narrow is the purview that is content with one form or one passing fashion. By rising to this wider range, we shall perceive that architecture is as many-sided as human nature itself, and learn how few feelings and how few aspirations...
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