A History of India, Third Edition

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Translations

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Notes (pp. 16–46)

1 Quotations from the Rigveda mainly from Griffiths, op. cit.
2 Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana, 1, 35, 7 (quoted from W.Rau, Staat
undGesellschaft, p. 53).