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, eכשג אוויc A HISTORY OF THE PRIMITIVE ARYANs ১৭১ ৷ =ങ്കങ്ങജങ്ക്-ജങ്ങ-ക്കു-ക്കു afterwards exalted to that rank by the influence of the haze of remote antiquity in which things are always seen in an exaggerated form. From the descriptions given of their acts and of their intercourse with the ancient Indo-Aryans we can not but consider them to have been really existing men. The reader should also mark that the Puranists designated men by their family totem, as for instance Jamvuvana is called abear because his totem was a bear and the Nagas as snakes because their totem was a snake. After the above was written I was surprised to find in an article on the early history of Tibet from the pen of the renowned antiquarian and Thibetan scholar, Babu Saratchunder Das C. I. E., publisled in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for February 1892, unexpected corroboration, of my statements made in this preface as well of those made in the portion of my diary published in this Journal long ago about the Deva-Aryans. Sarat Babu says: “According to Sum-pa the great Tibetan Historiographer and also the early rccords of Tibet, it is mentioned in certain Chinese histories that the people who inhabited the Arya-bhumi, the blessed land of the Hsithian (western heavens) originated from the Gods;tho people of China, the flowery country, sprang from the dragon, the offspring of the heaven and the earth ; the Mongolians originated from the demons, and last of all the Tibetans descended from the Yakshas, a kind of mischief-making demigods. The Hindoos regarded the Saki-Tartars and the early referred to. In the Buddhist work called Sambhara Samudra,Tibet is mentioned as one of the 24 abodes of the celestial nymphs, where sages still in their human shape reside in peace. Even when Buddha preached his doctrine in India, there lived in the country of Himavata, men who by dint of their perfections were able to acheive wonders. The place where these intellectual giants, male and female, called in Tibetan “Pah-vo” “Pah mo” is conjectured by the historians of Tibet to be the ostrict of “Pah-bonkha” near Lassa. The Mahabharata also tells us that ‘he sacred abode of the divine sages was a place in Himavata called “Paraloka,” beyond the snowy Himalayas, where to the holy brotherhood there was immunity from disease and the troubles of worldly life. The author of “Surya Siddhanto” called this country by the name of “Siddhapoora”, the land of perfection and accomplishment, and the discription that he has given of the place tallies with that of the Mahabharata. The legendary accounts of Tibet as preserved in the “Debother Nonpo” and other works give different stories about the origin of the Tibetans. It is said that in early times a race of people called “Noijin”(Yaksha) i. e. the mischief-makers inhabited the coun try. Though they were rich, having in their Persians, who worshipped the Ahura, (Asura) . and lived at the foot of Meru i. o. about the Paropamisus t mountains as the descendants of the Asuras who waged war on Indra, the Emperor of India and his nobles. The Hindus designated the Tibetans by the name Huna and Gana or the legions of Kuvera, the God of wealth. From the internal evidence of classical writings of the Hindoos, it appears that the specific designation which they had for the Chinese really signified the Tibetans. In the passage of the Udyog parva Bajimamcha, Saha8ra/mi Chimadesodbhkavamicha the Tibetan pony was evidently ـلـ t Para and Upa Nished mountain. possession precious stones and metals yet they used to do mischief to each other and to live in a state of continual warfare. So late as the first century B. C. twelve “Noijin” chiefs are said to have partitioned the country among themselves, a few years before the Indian Prince “Nyah-the-tsanpo” visited Tibet.” The Thibetan records quoted above corroborate my opinion that there was an Aryan race dwelling north of India prior to the Indo Aryans, who were more civilized than the latter. I obtain a fact from those records, which I was not aware of before that is, that their civilization was the truest civilization possible i.e. religious and moral civilization. Those records speak of them as intellectual giants and possessed of every religious and moral perfection, justifying the title of Devas so freely accorded to them by the Aryans of India. They were more long-lived and