The Problem Of Aryan Origins

From an Indian Point of View


Index


Abiratta, 32, 33

Achaemenid emperors, 90, 93

Achaemenid inscriptions, 84

Aditī, 39, 42, 86, 111

Aditya, 39

Afghānistān, 7, 8, 14, 68, 76, 86, 98, 118

Aghnyā, 42

Agni, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 86, 114

Agrawal, D.P., 2fn.

Agrawala, V.S., 130fn.

Ahi Vritra, 81

Ahura, 34

Aila outflow, 15, 16

Airiyānam vaējo, 12, 17, 77, 82, 83

Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, 86, 115

Aiyar, R. Swaminatha, 30, 43

Aiyar, T. ParamaŚiva, 81

Ajas, 117

Akkad, 88

Akkadian syllabary, 32

Albright, W.F., 23fn.

Allchin, Bridget and Raymond, 6, 7, 22, 69, 125

Alpine, 20, 68

Altekar, A.S., 93

Ambala, 11

Amri, 46

Amschler, 71, 73

Amurru, 88

anas, 113-114

Anatolia, 89

Anau, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76, 77

AngiRasā Rishis, 79, 80

Anjira, 69, 76

Antonini, C.S., 7

Apaya, 16

Apte, V.M., 41, 42, 46, 103

Archaeological Survey of India, 111

Arctic allusion, 75, 79

Arctic home, 78, 79, 81

Arctic memories, 79, 82

Arctic regions, 19, 79

Arne, 72

Artadama, 32, 33

Artamanya, 32

Artasumara, 32, 33

Arthasastra, 86

Aruna, 32, 89

Arunas, 89

Arya, The, i

Arya Varna, 113, 114

Aryan Celts, Germans, Greeks, 18

Aryan immigration, invasion, i, ii, 1-20, 95-106, 121, 130

Aryanism, 1, 51, 58, 69, 76, 77

Aryan origins, i, 2, 77, 82

Aryans, ii, iv, 17, 20, 61

Aryo-Dravidianism, ii

Arzawiya, 32

Ashvins, Aśvinā, 31, 35

Asikni, 126

Askabad, 70

Asura, 110, 111. 116

Atharvaveda, 56, 85, 87, 116

Aurobindo, Sri, i, iii, iv, 18-19, 24-26, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43. 44, 65, 77-83, 104, 106, 107-121, 133

Austria-Hungary, 1

Avesta, 34-35, 77, 82

ayas, āyasi, 37, 104, 119

Babylon, 66

"baga", 35

Bahlika, 12

Balsara.P.P. 17

Baltic region, 1

Balūchistān, 4.5.56.58, 60, 63. 69. 73. 74, 76, 100

Bampur, 5

Basham, A.L., 13, 14, 53

Basu, Arabinda, i. iii

Battle of the Ten Kings, 15


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Bengal, 25

Bhagwanpura, 5, 98

Bhandarkar, D.R., 87

Bhandarkar, R.G., 35fn., 93

Bhāratas, 126

Bhārata War, 57

Bharati, 38

Biridaswa, 32, 33

Boghaz-keui, 2, 36

Bollensen, 41, 114

Brahma, Brahman, Brahmand, 120

Brāhmaṇas, 108

Brahmavada, i, ii

Brahmavarta, 16

Brahmins, 114

Brihaspati, 81, 104, 121, 133

"bugash", 35

Bull-worship, 38, 42

Burrow, T., 50fn., 130, 131, 132, 133, 135fn.

Buxton, 21

Byron, 90

Cairn-burials, 4

Caldwell, Bishop, 30

Cambridge History of India, The, 11

Cappadocia, 89

Casal, 46

Caspian, Caspian Sea, 18, 69, 72, 74, 87

Caucasians, 21

Caucasic, 19

Chayamana (Cāyamāna) Abhyavartin, 122, 126, 128

Central India, 118

Cerebrals, 28, 29

Chadwick, John, 49

Chaemhet, tomb of, 73

Chakravarty, F., 37

Chandra, Moti, 87

Chanhu-dāro, 97

Chatterji, S.K., 11, 20, 21

Chaucer, 90, 91

Chenab, 126

Childe, Gordon, 33, 54, 73, 74

Chumuri, 110

Cleator, P.E., 49fn., 92

Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages, 30

Copper hoards, 4

Copper pins, 7

Dabar Kot, 60

Daha, Dahai, Dahya, 115, 116

Daitya, 83

Daivavata (Abhyavartin), 126

Dakshina, 39

Dales, G.R., 4, 57, 96

Danavas, 111

Danu, 111

Dani, A(hmad) H(assan), 7, 13,

98, 100 Danish, 91

Dasa-Dasyus, iv, vi, 25, 109-117, 118, 125, 127, 133

Dasa varna, 113

"Decline of the Harappāns", 4

Dhuni, 110

Dirghatamas, 108

Diti, 111

Doctrine of Brahman, i

Dravidas, Dravidian, Dravidians, ii, 1, 18 30, 43, 44, 45, 50fn., 104, 107, 118, 118, 121

Dravidian cultures, ii

Dravidian Theories, 30fn.

"Dravidaryan", iv

Dravidianism, 51

Dravido-Aryanism, ii

Drishadvati, 16, 62, 64

Druhyus, 15, 126

Duchesne, J. Guillemin, 91

Dusratta (Dasaratha), 34

Dvandva, 31

Dwaraka, v

Dyau, 39

Early India and Pakistan, 4fn.

Egypt, 32


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Egyptian hieroglyphs, 49

Egyptians, 16

Al-Amarna, 32

Elam, 72

Elamite texts, 88

Equus caballus Linnaeus, 9, 58, 70, 71

Equus caballus pumpelli, 69, 71

Equus onager indicus, 9

Erānvej, 12

Evaya Marut, 45

Eurafrican, 19

Fairservis, Jr., Walter, 7, 8, 10, 52, 53, 60, 69

Fleure, H.J., 58

Finnish scholar(s), 50, 51 Forts, iv

Gandhara Grave Culture, 7-10

Gangetic valley, 5

Gangoly, A.C., 118

Gathas, Gāthic, 2, 32, 84, 90-91, 93

Gaul, 18

Geldner, 103

Geography, Strabo's, 86

German, 90

Ghirshman, R., 73

Ghosh, B.K., 11, 12, 13, 32fn., 90-94, 110

Goel, Sita Ram, iv Gomal, 14

Gomal Valley, 98

Gomatī, 14

Gordon, D.H., 61

Gothic, Gothic Bible, 90, 91

Grassmann, 115

Grave People, The, 99, 100

Griffith, Ralph T.H., 43, 44, 135

Guha, 70

Gujarat, Gujerat, 22, 23, 24

Gumla, 63, 99-101

Gupta times, 86

Harappā, Harappā Culture, Harappān, iv, v, 2, 4-9, 19, 20, 36, 37, 42,

45-70, 95-106, 121, 125-6, 128-9

Hariyūpiyā, 125, 128-9

"Hatti", 89

Hermes, 74

Herodotus, 93

Hertel, 84

Herzfeld, E., 77, 82, 84

Hillebrandt, 110

Himalaya, 67

Hindu Kush, 85

Hindustan, 24

Hindu, The, i, 23fn., 30fn.

Hissar, 7, 8, 68, 76

Historical Geography, 13-15

History of Sanskrit Literature, 38fn., 103, 119

Hittite, Hittite King, Hittites, 2, 32, 88-9, 93

Homeric poems, 18

Horned Deity, 100

Horon, 86

Horse, 7-9, 32, 37, 57-60, 69-77

Hrozny, B., 88

Hunter, G.R., 51fn.

Hymns to the Mystic Fire, 107fn.

Icelandic, 91

Icons, 38, 39

Ha, 38

Ilibisa, 110

Image-worship, 42

Imperial Gazetteer of India, 85

"Incinerary Pot Burial", 59

Indara, 31

Indas, 67

India, 35-6, 78

Indo-Afghan, 24

Indo-Aryan, Indo-Aryans, 21, 30, 32, 35

Indo-European, 19, 21

Indo-Germanic culture, 47


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Indo-Iranian, 31-2, 33, 34

Indra, 31, 34, 35, 41, 42, 46, 67, 86, 89, 95, 104, 110, 111, 112, 119, 121, 131, 132, 133

Indra-Agni, 35

Indus Civilisation, 2fn., 31, 49, 54, 61, 70, 102

Indus Valley, 2, 11, 38, 49, 62

Innar, 89

Iron, 37-8, 104, 105

Jackson, 84

Jairazbhoy, R. A., 33fn., 89fn.

Jamdat Nasr period, times, 58, 73

Jaxartes, 13, 77

Johnson, Samuel, 91

Joshi, J.P., 9, 37, 49fn.

Kabul, 14

Kalash Kafirs, 86-7

Kalibangan, 46, 49, 63-4, 100

Karpāsa in Prehistoric India: A

Chronological and Cultural

Clue, v

Kashmir, 87

Kasi, 87

Kassites, 67, 87, 88

Kaswin, 87

Kasyas, 87

Kaushītakī Brāhmaṇa, 44

Kautilya, 86

Kasyapur, 87

Kechi Beg, 68

Keith. A.B., 11, 26, 35, 55, 103, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 119, 127

Keith, Sir Arthur, 21

Kennedy, K.A.R., 101-2

Kesis, 87

Ketkar, Mrs. S., 92fn.

Khafaje, 58, 73

Khan, F., 13

Khatti-Khattiyo = Kshatriya, 89

"Kheta", 89

Khurri-Mitanni, 88

Khuvaruvash, 88

Kikkuli, 2, 32, 33, 86

Kili Ghul Mohammad (KGM), 60, 69, 75

Kish, 73

Konow, Sten, 28-29, 43, 110, 116

Kosambi, D.D., 89fn., 125fn., 128

Kot Diji, 62, 63, 64, 101

Krishna, Sri, v

Krumu, 14

Kshatriya, 89, 114

Kubhā, 14, 85

Kulitara, 110

Kurukshetra, 5, 98

Kushāņas, 87

Lal, B.B., 8, 49fn., 50, 101-2

Langdon, 73

Langhnaj, 22, 23

Linear B script, 49, 92

Lithuanian, 84, 91, 93

Lothal, 20, 24, 46, 52, 53

Loralai, 61

Ludwig, 110

Lundholm, 69, 71

Macdonell, A.A., 26, 37-8, 55, 103, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 119, 127, 133

Mackay, E.J.H., 6, 9, 49fn.

Madhyadesa, 126

Maghavan, 131, 132, 135fn.

MahaBhārata War, 5

Maharashtra, 24

Mahāvailastha, 131, 132, 133

Maho arnas,89

Maikop, 6, 7

Majumdar, Tarapada, iii, v

Makran, 105

Manusmriti, 115

Marshall, Sir John, 38

Maruts, 41, 45, 66

Maruttash, 66


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Marya, 32

Maryanni, 2, 32, 67, 85-7, 88, 89

Mattiwaza, 31, 86, 87, 88

Meadow, Richard H., 5fn.

Mediterranean, Miditerranids, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23

Megasthenes, 86, 103

Mehi, 38

Mesopotamia, 32, 35, 54, 68, 73, 74

Mirza, Hormazdyer K., 83

Mitanni, 2, 31, 32, 84, 85, 88

Mithra, Mithro, 86

"Mithra-Ahura", 34

"Mitra-Asura", 34

"Mitra-Varuṇa", 34

Mitra, 34, 86

Moghul Ghundai, 4

Mohenjo-dāro, 6, 49, 61, 63, 70, 71, 95-7

Mongoloid races, 118

Mookerji, R.K., 14, 15, 86, 111, 127

Müller, Max, 92

Mundigak, 7, 8, 68, 76, 98

Mycenaean syllabary, 49

Mysteries, Orphic and Eleusinian, 107

Nādi-Stuti, 14

Naga-worship, 101

Namyawaza, 32, 33

Naram-Sin, 88, 89

Nasatyas, 34, 35, 86

Natarajan. P., 23fn.

Natufians, 22, 23

Nirukta, 108

Nordics, 20

Norse Sagas, 18

North-West Frontier, 63

Northerners, 1

Oldenberg, 110

Old High German, 90

Origins of Aryan Speech, The, 26fn.

Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries, 107

Ouranos, 89

ovis vignei, 59

Oxford History of India, The, 4fn. Oxus, 77

Painted Grey Ware (PGW), 5, 6, 57, 98

Paippalada version, 87

Pali, 89, 103

Pandit, P.B., 50fn.

Pānini, 91, 103

Panis, 110, 116, 133

Pānchāla, 15

Pariśishṭa, 44

Parnians, 116

Parpola, Asko, 50fn.

Parsis, 16, 17

Paruṣṇī, 126

Passek, 74

Paśupati, 42

Pataliputra, 103, 105

Pazur-Inshushinak, 88

Peake, H., 58

Periano Ghundai, 59-60

Persia, 74

Phillips, E.D., 74

Phoenicians, 16

Piggott, Stuart, 6, 54, 58, 59, 60, 68, 74

Pipru, 110, 111

Piśācha, 85, 116-17

Pischel, 103

Plato, 107

Potter, Simeon, 91

Pottery, 63-4, 68-9

Prakrit, 33

Pre-Harappān, 56, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 101, 102

Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Parkistan, 2fn.


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Prithivi, 39

Prthu-Parśu (Parthians-Persians?), 12

Proto-Aryan, 4, 34, 35

Proto-Dravidian, 50

Proto-Harappān, 101

Przewalski horse, 70, 73

Pumpelly, 69, 71

Punjāb, 14, 15, 16, 17, 61, 62, 85, 118

Pur, purah, iv, 95, 102, 103, 104, 119, 120, 131, 132

Puranas, 15, 16

Pusalker, A.D., 8, 26, 33, 49, 57, 87, 101, 110, 116, 126, 127

Pythagoras, 107

Quetta, 69

Rajasthan, 62, 63

Ramayana, 8, 10

Raksha, 116, 117

Rānā Ghundāī (RG), 58-60, 61, 68, 76

Ranhā, 14

Rao, S.R., 2fn., 9, 51, 53

Rapson, E.J., 10, 11

Rasā, 12, 14

Raychaudhuri, H.C, 46fn., 125m., 129

Red Ware, 68

Rigveda, Rigvedic, Veda, Vedic, Vedism, ii, iv, 1-3, 8, 11, 13-16, 18, 19, 29, 31-47, 55, 56, 61-2, 63-6, 75, 76, 77, 78-82, 84-89, 90-94, 95-6, 98-121, 132

Riks, The Riks,

Roth, 41, 110, 115

Roux, Georges, 31fn., 89fn.

Royal Tombs of Ur, 54

Roychowdhuri, Ajit, iii

Rudra, 41, 43-5

Russian conference, i, iii

Sambara, 110

Sandrocottus, 86, 103

Sanjan, 17

Sankalia, H.D., 2fn., 5, 9, 20, 22, 38, 47, 53, 56, 59, 62-4, 68, 98-100

Sanskrit, iv, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30

Sapta-Sindhu, 17, 55

Sarama, 39

Sarasvati, 12, 15, 16, 38, 39, 62, 64

Sarayu, 15

Sargon, 1, 83

Sarkar, S.S., 21-3, 68, 97

Sastri, K.N., 57

Sastri, S. Srikanta, 16

Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, 87

Saurāshtra, 9, 20, 21, 52

Sayana, 114

Schrader, O., 55

Science, 2fn.

Scientific American, 4fn.

Seal no. 3357, 50-51

Secret of the Veda, The, i, iiifn., 133fn.

Semi-Harappān, 101

Semitic Dynasty, 88

Serpent Goddess, 100

Sewell, 70, 71

Shah Tepe, 69, 71-2, 75, 77

Shahi Tump, 5, 6

Shakespeare, 91

Sharma, A.K., 100

Shaw, Bernard, 90

Shelley, i Shimalia, 67

Shiva, Śiva, 41, 43-5

Shubiluliuma, 31

Sialk, 4, 68, 69, 71, 76

Sigrus, 127

Sind, 65, 62, 97

Sistan, 5

Snoy, Peter, 87fn.

Soma, 86, 104, 118


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Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture, 87

Southern India, 1, 24

South Indian Bronzes, 118 .

Southerners, 1

Spokes, 55

Spooner, 103

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, iii Sri Ma - Sri Aurobindo Milan Kendra, iii

Srinjayas, 126

Sriramadesikan, S. N., 30fn.

Strabo, 86

Sudas, 15, 126

Sudra, 114

Suktas, 78

Sunasepa, 86

Surkotada, 9, 36, 49

Sur Jungal, 61

Suriash, 67

Sūrya, 39, 67

Susa, 72, 73

Sushna, 110, 112

Sutkāgen-dor, 105

Suttarna, 32, 33

Suvāstu, 14, 85

Swar, 42, 120, 133

Swardata, 32, 33

Swastika, 49

Swat, 7, 14, 85

Swedish, 92

Syria, 32

Taittirīya Saṁhitā, 44, 116

Tamil, Tamils, 1, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27

Tarpan, 70

Tell Halaf, 54

Tekkolakota, 23

Telugus, 21, 22, 27

Tepe Yahya, 5

Teuton, 18

Thapar, Romila, 50fn.

The Harappā Culture and the Rigveda, 56

Thieme, Paul, 33, 35

Tilak, 19, 78, 81, 82, 83

Tocharian, 93

Trinity, Indian, 46

Tripolye, Tripolye Culture, 74, 75, 76

triśūla, 42

trislrsan, 46

Tritsus, 126

trivtsna, 42

Tryaruna, 42

Tsarskaya, 6, 7

Turkestan, 1,68,70,72,74,75

Turvasas, 126, 127

Ukraine, 1, 74

Ulfila, 90, 91

Unman-manda, 88

Upanishads, i, 107, 108

Upper Euphrates, 2, 67, 88

Ur-heimat (Cradle-land) , 16

Ur, Standard of, 73

Royal tombs of, 54

Uruwana, 31,89

Usha 16,39,134

Vāhana, 42

vājayanta, 86

Vala, 109, 120, 121, 131, 133

Valahan ("Vala-slayer")* 133

Vailasthāna, Vailasthānaka. 131, 133

Vaishya, 114

Vamadeva, 42, 108

Varasikhas, 128

Varchin, 110, 125, 127

Varin, 87

Varuṇa, 31, 86, 87

Vasishtha, 127

Vats, M.S., 49fn.

Vaufrey, 71

Veda, ii

Vedantic philosophy, i

Veddas, 21


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Veddids, 21, 22, 23

Vedic Aryan, 56

Vedic Index, 55fn., 103, 111, 112,

116, 117, 126

Vendīdād, 35

Venkatesvara, S.K., 41, 44

Ventris, Michael, 49

Verethragan, 34

Verethragna, 34

Views and Reviews

Vritrahan("Vritra-slayer"), 34, 133

Vritraghna, 34

Washburn, S.L., 21

Western Asia, 22, 23

Western historians, 1

Wheeler, Sir Mortimer, 2th., 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 38, 57, 64, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 103, 104, 105, 121, 125, 128, 129

Wheels, spoked, 46-53

Wilson, Prof., 41, 43

Winternitz, M., 92

Woolner, A.C., 92

Wiist, W., 46

Xanthos of Lydia, 93

Yajurveda, 13, 14

Yakshus, 127

Yavyāvatī, 126, 128, 129

Yasdata, 32

Yima (= Jamshed), 83

Zarathustra, Zarathustrian, 2, 81, 93

Zeuner, Frederick, 58, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77

Zend, 33

Zeus Ombrios, 86

"Zhob cult", 59

Zhob valley, 59

Zimmer, 126


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