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ISBN13: 9780217695817
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 6-2 THE VEDA AND ZEND-AVESTA. THE VEDA. main stream of the Aryan nations has always JL flowed towards the north-west. No historian can tell us by what impulse these adventurous Nomads were driven on through Asia towards the isles and shores of Europe. The first start of this world-wide migration belongs to a period far beyond the reach of documentary history; to times when the soil of Europe had not been trodden by either Celts, Germans, Slavonians, Romans, or Greeks. But whatever it was, the impulse was as irresistible as the spell which, in our own times, sends the Celtic tribes towards the prairies or the regions of gold across the Atlantic. It requires a strong will, or a great amount of inertness, to be able to withstand the impetus of such national, or rather ethnical, movements. Few will stay behind when all are going. But to let one's friends depart, and then to set out ourselves?to take a road which, lead where it may, can never lead us to join those again who speak our language and worship our gods?is a course which only men of strong individuality andgreat self-dependence are capable of pursuing. It was the course adopted by the southern branch of the Aryan family, the Brahmanic Aryas of India and the Zoroastrians of Iran. At the first dawn of traditional history we see these Aryan tribes migrating across the snow of the Himalaya southward towards the ' Seven Rivers' (the Indus, the five rivers of the Penjab, and the Sarasvati), and ever since India has been called their home. That before this time they had been living in more northern regions, within the same precincts with the ancestors of the Greeks, the Italians, Slavonians, Germans, and Celts, is a fact as firmly established as that the Normans of William the Conqueror were the Northmen of Scandinavia. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217695817 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217695817 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $27.83 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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