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The Ganges was at the same time a protection from hostile invasions , and an
easy highway of communication with the older Aryan settlements in the Punjab .
The river Barna on the north , and the Asi on the south - a more important stream
...
The Ganges was at the same time a protection from hostile invasions , and an
easy highway of communication with the older Aryan settlements in the Punjab .
The river Barna on the north , and the Asi on the south - a more important stream
...
Page 17
They were by no means a united people , but composed of numerous tribes and
clans , not all of pure Aryan stock , often fighting with each other , and surrounded
not only by savage aboriginals of the lowest type living in the dense forests ...
They were by no means a united people , but composed of numerous tribes and
clans , not all of pure Aryan stock , often fighting with each other , and surrounded
not only by savage aboriginals of the lowest type living in the dense forests ...
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The Aryan race , indeed , has been so modified by its Indian environment that
probably the pure Aryan stock no longer exists , but Aryan culture and Aryan
philosophy form the cement which now binds Hindu society together from one
end of ...
The Aryan race , indeed , has been so modified by its Indian environment that
probably the pure Aryan stock no longer exists , but Aryan culture and Aryan
philosophy form the cement which now binds Hindu society together from one
end of ...
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Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
THE ADVENT OF BUDDHASARNATH AND | 32 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion |
| Author | Ernest Binfield Havell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. Thacker, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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