Indo-Aryan Literature and Culture (Origins)

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The application of the method to the Draupadi gaga" in the concluding Section might usefully have been deferred until the author had received and profited by the views and opinions of competent critics upon the previous portions of the Book the subject-matter of which proved more apt for the application of his method than the more deliberately and systematically perverted saga matter of the over [...] Passing of the Brahmans from the peacelessness of the Aryan world into the Peace and Dispensation of the Vratya Empire of the East. [...] Presumption that the Prthu of the Puranas is the Eka-Vrätya of the Vratya Book of the Atharva Veda. [...] But it was not until I had succeeded in recovering what I believe to be the key to the Vriitya8toma ritual ceremonies (as depicted in the Pafichaviipgia Brahmar.la of the Sama Veda and in the 8rauta-Sutras) from the Vratya Book (Book XV) of the Atharva Veda and had found the key also to that Book and to the Atharva Veda as a whole (from the innumerable points of communication and contact which [...] The equipments " of the Vrälina rtvisi bear a close family resemblance to the " equipments " of the Vratya grikapati: the turban the goad the vehicle (vipatha) etc.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Frontmatter	i-xxvi	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section I. Introductory	1-5	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section II. The Vrātyastomas	6-11	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section III. The Conversion Vrātyastoma : A Political not. a Religious Ritual admissible for Aryans and Non-Aryans alike. The Largest Accession to Aryanism from the Non-Aryan East	12-16	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section IV. Contrasting Political and Social Conditions of the Vedic Aryan Settlements vis-a-vis the Vrātya Empire of the East. Light from the Purānas	17-27	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section V. A Chapter (mainly) of Historical Romance : (i) Aryan Brāhmans in the Eka-Vrātya’s Court. (ii) The Great Vrātyastoma Ekāha-Sattra. (iii) The Composition of the Vrātya Book	28-43	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section VI. Analysis of the Vrātya Book. Net results of the Great Conversion-Consecration Ceremony	44-52	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section VII. Concerning Methodology; or the Palaeontology of History	53-58	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section VIII. Identity of the Worlds of Prthu-Vainya and of the Eka-Vrātya	59-69	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section IX. The Sūta and the Māgadha. The Fever-Charm Sūkta	70-99	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section X. The Origin and Development of Indo-Aryan literature. The “ Smrti ” and “Śrtuti ”46 Stages of that Literature. The Redaction-Renascence	100-122	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section XI. The Purānas : Their Special Affinities with the Atharva Veda	123-131	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section XII. Ātharvanic Influences on the Śrauta Literature	132-144	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section XIII. The Doctrine of Re-births and Varna-āśrama-dharma. Attainment by the Atharva Veda of Canonicity and the Title of Brahma Veda. The Onkdrā	145-169	Nagendranath Ghose	View
Section XIV. The Draupadī Saga. Krsna-Mādhava and Jarāsandha : Their places in Indo-Aryan Political History	170-248	Nagendranath Ghose	View
General Index	249-288	Nagendranath Ghose	View

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