Early Hindu Civilisation, B.c. 2000 to 320 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... BOOK I. VEDIC PERIOD, B.c. 2000 To B.c. 1400, CHAPTER I. THE INDO-ARYANS.-THEIR LITERATURE. The site of the early home of the Aryans has been a subject of endless controversies among scholars. Enthusiastic and patriotic Hindu scholars will not admit that the first home of the Aryans was anywhere outside India; while equally patriotic European scholars would place the seat of the primitive Aryans on the shores of the Baltic Sea. We need hardly say that it is not our object to enter into this discussion; and we merely repeat here the theory of many moderate thinkers that the early home of the Aryans was somewhere in Central Asia. The main arguments on which this conclusion is based have been summed up by Professor Max Muller in a recent work, and we quote them for our readers:--"Firstly, we have two streams of language, one tending south-east to India, and the other north-west to "Recent anthropological researches have disclosed that the nations speaking Aryan languages are not descended from the same stock, and never "belonged to the same race. At the same time it is admitted that the ancestors of these races must have derived their languages from a common source; they must have been subject to one great race which imposed its language on them, or lived in one common tract of country. When we speak of the early home of the Aryans, we mean this common country; and when we speak Aryans, we mean races speaking Aryan languages, 26 Europe. The point where these two streams naturally intersect, points to Asia." "Secondly, the earliest centres of civilised life were in Asia." And we may add that the most primitive form of all Aryan languages--the nearest approach to that language which was spoken by the primitive Aryan races--is the Vedic Sanskrit of Ancient Indi...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151174653
- ISBN 13 9781151174659
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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