Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . itionsand acquired activities, may well serve asan illustration of the potency, not to saydomination, of nature over man. The name India is of recent we consult the native tongues of theEast, we shall find no sin- Derivation ana gle word sufficiently com- sense of the , . , ~ * ., name India. prehensive to define thecountry which we are now to name which in Sanskrit would mostnearly describe
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . itionsand acquired activities, may well serve asan illustration of the potency, not to saydomination, of nature over man. The name India is of recent we consult the native tongues of theEast, we shall find no sin- Derivation ana gle word sufficiently com- sense of the , . , ~ * ., name India. prehensive to define thecountry which we are now to name which in Sanskrit would mostnearly describe the vast region which 641 642 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the modern nations call India, would beBhdrata-varsha, signifying the land, orkingdom, of Bharata. The latter is thename of a legendary monarch of theLunar dynasty, whose dominion, ac-cording to the Indie mythology and tra-dition, was perhaps as wide as the aggre- of the Sanskrit Sindhu, or Hindu, mean-ing rivers; and this is the fundamentalsense of the nomenclature. Riverswas the name which the primitive Ar-yan folk, coming into the upper valleyfrom the table-lands of Iran and throughthe gateways of the Hindu-Kush, first. VIEW I\T SAPTA SINDHU.—The Mounchi-Bagh.—Drawn by G. Vuillier, from a photograph. gate of countries now called by the gen-eral name of India. The name Hindustan has been fre-quently used by geographers to desig-„, ^ 0. , nate a region much broader The Sapta Sind- ° hu of the Old than the limited country Indicans. , . ?, r ?, -r-r. lying north of the Vmd-hya mountains; but such usage is nolonger warranted. The name India isthe smoothed and melodized Greek form gave to the country now known by thedesignation of Punjab, or Five is thought, however, that the veryoldest designation given by the immi-grating tribes to this region was SaptaSindhu, or Seven Rivers, the two streamsadditional to the five of the Punjab beingthe Indus on the one side and the Saras-wati on the other. At any rate, it w
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