Ancient Indian Weights

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332794594
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Marsden's Numismata Orientalia, Vol. 1 written by Edward Thomas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Marsden's Numismata Orientalia, Vol. 1: Ancient Indian Weights It will be discovered in the following pages how far these conditions are fulfilled by the records of Indian monetary progress, traditional or material. Had M. Queipo confined the claims of the West to having influenced the literature and learning of the East at a later period, I should have been too ready to support him, as it can be proved to demonstration that the Brahmanical writers in after-times borrowed Greek science, and even appropriated the tenets of our Greek Testament, not only without acknowledgment, but with studious disguise and pretended Indian authority.' The origination of the Indian system of weights, in India, however, seems to admit of no question, the fundamental principles of which were probably framed in sita before the Vedic Aryans moved from the banks of the Oxus, and long before the Western branch of the Aryan family took their first lesson in Hellenic idolatry That the Indian system should disclose fragmentary points of relation ship to the Egyptian, and more decided associations with the less remote Accad civilization of the Euphrates valley, was only to be expected, -the three nationalities were all members of the great Tt'irflnian family who once seem jointly to have occupied the southern limits of the supposedly habitable earth.' But the intrusion of new nationalities on the Tigris severed whatever of ethnic continuity may have previously existed, and left India to work out her own future, undisturbed by ties of race or foreign intervention, - ao that very many centuries afterwards, when the Greeks penetrated into the land, they felt and acknowledged a purely independent national development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.