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Factors in Indian History

1949

Mesopotamia and the Levant in the West in prehistoric times.' The vast movement of colonisation towards the East and the extensive commerce with the Roman empire in the West that form the most important phases of South Indian history in the early centuries of the Christian era were only the maintenance in historical times of contacts established long before the commencement of recorded history. [...] No river on the surface of the globe can compare with the Ganef in sanctity'.' Across the Himalayas there are just three groups of passes leading into Tibet—one along the valley of Sutlej another near Almora and the chief affluent of the Gogra to the east of Almora and a third across the northern barriers of the state of Sikkim. [...] In these different terms for the cultural divisions of N. India we have clear evidence of the varying degrees of the Aryanisation of the different parts of the country and of the recognition of these ' differences by the tradition of the country. [...] Agastya is now generally recognised as the personification of the expansive force of IndAryan culture and the legends which credit him with the subjugation of the Vindhyas and the drinking up of the waters of the ocean are rightly interpreted as allegories closely related with the spread of that culture first across the whole continent of India and then to the colonies beyond the seas. [...] It was the age of the great pilgrimages to the Holy land of the Gang5 the time of MalaTiyanist idealism the plastic art of the Guptas and the Pallavas and of the illustrious gankara at whose feet gathered all the scholars of his time like bees round the lotus.
philosophy religion
Pages
39
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145778
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii K.A. Sastri view
Preface
i-i K.A. Sastri view
Factors in Indian History
1-35 K.A. Sastri view

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