Ancient India

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Edward James Rapson
Macmillan, 1922 - 736 pages
 

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Page 64 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 44 - Stature above mean ; complexion fair ; eyes mostly dark, but occasionally grey ; hair on face plentiful ; head broad ; nose moderately narrow, prominent, and very long.
Page 47 - Probably a blend of Dravidian and Mongoloid elements, with a strain of IndoAryan blood in the higher groups. The head is broad ; complexion dark ; hair on face usually plentiful ; stature medium ; nose medium, with a tendency to broad.
Page 40 - In typical specimens the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion very dark, approaching black ; hair plentiful, with an occasional tendency to curl ; eyes dark ; head long ; nose very broad, sometimes depressed at the root, but not so as to make the face appear flat.
Page 142 - Time is in the long run death, so that the sacrificer himself becomes death, and by that act rises superior to death, and is for ever removed from the world of illusion and trouble to the world of everlasting bliss. In this the true nature of Prajapati and of the sacrificer is revealed as intelligence, and the...
Page 502 - Antiochus dwells, and beyond that Antiochus to where dwell the four kings severally named Ptolemy, Antigonus, Magas and Alexander . . . and likewise here, in the king's dominions, among the Yonas" * (ie the Greeks of the Punjab).
Page 176 - The administrative and judicial business of the clan was carried out in public assembly at which young and old were alike present in their common Mote Hall at Kapilavastu.
Page 651 - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JASB Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal...
Page 696 - Waddell, LA Discovery of the exact site of Asoka's classic capital of Pataliputra, the Palibothra of the Greeks, and description of the superficial remains. Calcutta, 1892.
Page 50 - Aryan does not attempt to speak it, and the necessities of intercourse compel the aborigine to use a broken ' pigeon ' form of the language of a superior civilisation. As generations pass this mixed jargon more and more approximates to its model, and in process of time the old aboriginal language is forgotten and dies a natural death.

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