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• which to erect a factory. अििचब ***e দূরীভূত হইয়া যায়। HISTORY OF THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE EARLIEST INDO-ARYANS. ]ᏢᏒᎬFᎪᏟᎬ. () Many are of opinion that the Puranas of the Hindus do not contain history but are only repositories of fables, legends and allegories. But if we carefully study them marking the words used in them, we cannot but observe that, in places, they use what may be called strict historical language. Eastern nations are very careful in preserving geneologies. When we read geneologies in the Puranas, we have no reason to distrust them altogether though al., inaccuracey might have crept into them here and there as in the geneologies given in the New Testament. When we find in the Puranas accounts of the persons whose geneologies are given, why shall we not believe in them as we do in the geneologies themselves and conclude that the substratum of the narrative is true though thickly covered with, and concealed by, fable and allegory as a tree is concealed by a thick profusicn of creepers twining themselves round it. In many places, we can bring out the truth from it divesting it of allegory and exaggerated language. The Puranists had a separate language for writing history, different from the language of the modern historians, especially Enropean historians. If a Puranist had lived now, he would have described the conquest of India by the English somewhat in this way: About this period several Rakshasas came from the west to the Kalyavana Emperor that sat on the throne of Indraprastha (Delhi). The Rakshashas can put on many guises and are proficient in wiles aud machinations. They came at first in the humble guise of merchants and implored for a plot of land on As the bards sing “He entereth like a needle but cometh out as large as a ploughshare.” The possessions of the Rakshashas swelled into an empire. These Rakshashas had an invisible magica РRERуСЕ, ন্ত্রের विदब्राष दो खामोशश्नमा ' ᎼᎼ☾ engine obtained as a boon from Siva which they concealed within their heads and which they brought out of them when necessary and by means of which they conquered Bharatavarsha more than by their swords. The imaginary Puranist alluded to above, would have been justified în terming the western foreigners as Rakhashas, seeing their craving for what in his opinion was half cooked flesh. Kalyavana or the dreadful Yavana would mean the Mogul Emperor of Delhi and the magical invisible e 'rine, astute diplomacy, by means of which the English conquered India more than by their swords. We have ventured to make an attempt in the following pages to cxtract the account of the earliest period or Aryan history from the Puranas. How far we have succeeded in our attempt the reader will decide. We have Luade the Vishnu Purana the principal basis of our attempt, supplying its omissions by facts stated in other Puranas, in the Itillashes and in other Hindu books besides Puranas and ltihases but never tampering with its statements czcept when proved inaccurate by a consensus other Puranas and not simply by the statements of one of them. of statements in Unless we adopt one Purana as of greater reliable authority than any other we will be lost about in an ocean of doubt and uncertainty. The Vishnu Purana being more ancient than any other, marking its language, we have made it the principal basis of our history. * The reader while reading these pages, will mark persons named after the deities whom the primitive Aryans worshipped as is still the custom amongst their descendants in India. Really existing human beings were named Diti and Aditi after the deities of those names mentioned in the Veda. The Vishnu Purana, while giving the geneology from Manu Swayambhu indulges in what seems to be allegorical language in the It mentions some moral qualities as the sons or daughters of men. But the reader should names given to men and women.
- The Vishnu Puranacommonly met with, contains a much less number of slokas than the one found by the Bombay Govt. Sanskrit
ists with a pundit of Guzerat.
