. The north-western provinces of India : their history, ethnology, and administration . mersknew little of the Ganges, because in the Rig Veda thatriver is mentioned only twice, and then without any specialnote of reverence. Their last settlement west of the Jumnawas probably between the two sacred rivers, the Saraswatiand Drishadvati, near the modern Thanesar, in what is nowthe Ambala district of the Panjab. Thence they graduallyforced their way along the course of the Ganges and Jumna,until in the Epic period, as represented by the Mahabharata,we find them settled at Hastinapura, in the pres
. The north-western provinces of India : their history, ethnology, and administration . mersknew little of the Ganges, because in the Rig Veda thatriver is mentioned only twice, and then without any specialnote of reverence. Their last settlement west of the Jumnawas probably between the two sacred rivers, the Saraswatiand Drishadvati, near the modern Thanesar, in what is nowthe Ambala district of the Panjab. Thence they graduallyforced their way along the course of the Ganges and Jumna,until in the Epic period, as represented by the Mahabharata,we find them settled at Hastinapura, in the present Meerutdistrict. It is probable that, at the earliest stage of their colonisation,the dense forests which then covered the middle Plainspresented almost insurmountable obstacles to their the example of all colonists in tropical lands, theywould naturally cling to the highlands which flank thevalley, and avoid the deep, malarious jungle infested bybeasts of prey. The references to an Aryan civilisation ofan advanced type on the slopes of the Siwalik range and 58. A riK-E URAVIDIAN KORWA. MIRZAPUR. UNDER HINDU AND MUSALMAN RULE the lower Himalaya indicate that this may have been theirearliest route to the eastward. Here they encountered theindigenous races. At one time the relations between thenew-comers and the old settlers would seem to have beenamicable, for we read that, at Hardwar, Arjuna espoused thedaughter of King Vasuki, of the Naga or serpent on we learn that the Aryas destroyed the Nagas, andburnt them out of the Khandava forest in the valley of theJumna, near Indraprastha, or old Delhi, which may havebeen one of the early frontier posts. The Vedas represent the Aryas as having attained a highgrade of civilisation. They had acquired a knowledge of thehigher handicrafts, and—though many of them were nomads,living on the produce of their flocks and herds—others hadalready occupied the land, were engaged in the cultivationof the soil a
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