Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . e continued to be duhitar, the daughter,she also, in maidenhood, took on anothername or names significant of her placeand duty. Instead of being called duhi-tar, she was nicknamed milkmaid, andby this simple fact we are let into a sec-tion of the daily life of the was her duty, on arriving at maturemaidenhood, to milk the cows and goats,and her duty in this respect was so clear-ly defined as to warrant her nicknamem
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . e continued to be duhitar, the daughter,she also, in maidenhood, took on anothername or names significant of her placeand duty. Instead of being called duhi-tar, she was nicknamed milkmaid, andby this simple fact we are let into a sec-tion of the daily life of the was her duty, on arriving at maturemaidenhood, to milk the cows and goats,and her duty in this respect was so clear-ly defined as to warrant her nicknamemilkmaid. By this title she was calledwithout disparagement, and her originaloffice has been carried with the frag-ments of speech into several modernlanguages. If we scrutinize more closely themethod of life pursued Predominance of at the beginning by the the agricultural T T. A 1 11 instinct. Indic Aryans, we shallfind them to be a people of the lived from the resources of theearth produced by cultivation. In these 650 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. migrating tribes the agricultural impulsewas dominant from the first. Theywere peculiarly a people of ground-. HOUSE PEOPLE OF ARYA—THE DUHITAR. culture. They plowed the glebe. Itwas their vocation to plant seeds and de-velop the growing stalk to maturity andfruitage. This peculiarity of the prim- itive life of the Aryans is so stronglymarked as to have left its own demon-stration and history in the languagesspoken by thedifferent races ofthis stock. Nortan it fail of in-teiest, even tothe unlearnedleader, to notethe proof and il-lustration of theagricultural as-pect of Aryanlife by an ex-amination ofthat group of?\A ords which ex-hibit the factmost word Ar-\ an is from theSanskrit Arya,meaning no-ble. It signifiesthenobilityoftheagricultural castem ancient plowmenwere the noblepeople, and weresocalledby them-selves from thebeginning. Theroot AR meansto plow, and thissignification istraceable innearh e
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