1 22 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
2 Mahyratta, words. Yet further south there is a still smaller intermixture
3 Affutty ofuon. Of Sanskrit words in the Telegu, Canarese and Malayan languages. The
4 Sori eels non-Sanskrit words in these languages bear a close affinity to the Tartar,
5 elecu, &., wi if ° .
6 tne Tianten or more properly the Turanian, tongues, which is proof that the first wave of
7 ongue.
8 conquest that rolled over India, was from the bleak mountainous regions of
9 Scithi or Central Asia. : :
10 The Turanian Hindus became the great temple-builders of India, and
11 Architecturatmonu- their religious monuments, extant to this day in India, are subjects of admi-
12 montsof theTuranlan yation in the work of the great writer on Indian architecture, Ferguson.
13 The beautiful rock-cut temple of Kylas at Ellora, the great pagoda at Tan-
14 jore, and the temple at Seringhan, are among the architectural erections of
15 the race of men conguered by the Brahmins. ; ;
16 No caste among the The aborigines differed entirely from their Hindu conquerors in their
17 RORBESAR TACHA: mode of life and religious belief. Unlike the Hindus, they observed no dis-
18 tinctions of caste. Indeed, it may be doubted whether any distinctions
19 existed among the earliest Hindus. The religious orders of Yogis and
20 Gosains repudiate caste, and even the Brahmin, on being admitted to that
21 Thetr mode of bury- fraternity, gives up that distinction. The Hindus burn their dead. The
22 Pog ee dent aborigines buried theirs in the ground, beneath rude circular stones, mounds
23 and perpendicular slabs, like the early inhabitants of Europe. Human re-
24 mains have been dug out of their graves, from under these slabs. They buried
25 with the dead their arms, ornaments, vestments, and sometimes also their
26 cattle, as among the Scythians, believing that by such a course they would
27 obtain them in the next world. Herodotus mentions that the ancient
28 Scythians buried with their warriors models of their arms. In Poland and
29 the steppes of Tartary, battle-axes, iron bows and arrows have been found
30 in old graves. In Ndgptir (Central India) similar discoveries have been
31 made. All these burial places are of Scythian origin and afford proof of the
32 descent of tlie people north and south of the great Himalayan range from
33 one common stock of Scythian or Central Asian origin. Hindu widows are
34 forbidden to marry. The widows of the aborigines not only re-marry, but,
35 following the practice of the Scythian tribes, usually marry the younger
36 brothers of their deceased husbands.
37 The modern Hindus, unlike the ancient Aryans, abstain from eating beef.
38 one aborigines feed ‘The aborigines feed alike on all flesh. The Dagis, a small tribe in the
39 Panjab, believed to be the remnants of an aboriginal race, eat beef openly.
40 The Sansis, or gipsies, the hunting classes aud the river tribes of the Panjab,
41 who are believed to belong to the primitive races, eat foxes and jackals and
42 even lizards and other vermin. The modern Hindu, unlike the Vedic*
43 erhey. use fermented worshipper, is forbidden to use fermented liquor. - The Shastras condemn in-
44 ais dulgence in wine assinful. Among the aborigines no ceremony, civil or religi-
45 ous, 1s complete without drinking and dancing. The Mahdbhdrata is full of
46 drinking scenes. The people of each caste, among the Hindus, prepare their
47 Their socint customs. OWN food and eat of none which is not prepared by those of their own, or of
48 a higher, caste. The aborigines observe no such restrictions. The Hindus
49 abhor the idea of depriving a creature of life. The aborigines sacrifice
50 living human beings at their altars. They have no Brahminical priesthood.
51 Sahel tice They judge their priest by his mode of life and by. the degree of skill he is
52 ey ne Trmeral title of supposed to possess in magic and sorcery. The civil institutions of the Hin-
53 by th: Hindus, us are all municipal. Those of the aborigines are patriarchal.
54 Bache te oa ee er wee
55 * Not only did the worshippers of Vedic times in
56 partook of it. ‘Thus, dulge in wine, but their gods also freely
57 : says an Aryan worshipper, invoking the god Indra: “ Sj
58 sacred grass and, when thor hast drunk the soma, go home,” Boe tndea: oii downy indzy, On
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