Aparajitaprucchha

SR No.: 008438
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B Bhattacharya
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Total Pages: 810
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Culture, & Art
File Size: 12 MB

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deductions are not even always sound. The same material is responsible for different accounts by different authorities. Opinions differ whether the Mohenjo Daro Civilisation was Aryan or Non-aryan.
The supreme material to base history upon is undoubtedly the chronologically written account of the past if such a thing exists. This must be tested for reliability by internal and also by external evidence wherever available. It is only when the evidence is satisfactory that the account has to be taken as history in the true sense of the
term.
European historians have put aside the Puranas as mythology and have stated that the ancient Indians were devoid of historical sense. But Puranas, as I believe, are a store-house of past history in various branches of knowledge. aufa is full of quotations from many Puranas. The principles of aega are to be found in many Puranas and the utility of texts is highly imperative in deciphering the monumental engravings whether in stone, wood, bronze or iron. I have mainly tried to unravel the principles of age from documen tary evidence (i. c. of the Puranas) more than from Indologica! researches. Over and above the creation, destruction prologue, the Puranas contain chronological accounts of kings and heroes of the past, describe wars and successive political, physical and other changes in the country. They also treat of religion, medicine, archæology, social customs, superstition, etc., and it is very fortunate that a reliable and systematically written complete history of India, especially its distant past, i. e. the period from 6000 B. C. to 400 A. D. comprising the Pre-Mohenjo Daro to the beginning of the Maurya epoch has been recorded in the Puranas.
The Purana Chroniclers wanted to preserve their accounts through eternity. As religion does not die out easily, a stamp of religion was deliberately impressed upon the writings. The authors knew that the religiously minded laity would see that the Puranas were preserved from age to age.
P. K. Acharya in his Dictionary of Hindu Architecture has, by implication, if not in express terms, tried to show his leaning towards Grecian inspiration for every feature of Indian Architecture wherever convenient. The three orders of Grecian Architecture Doric, lonian and Corinthian are put side by side with the three styles of Indian Architecture, नागर, वेसर and द्राविड.
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If one were to go into the periods of origin of the Grecian orders. he would find that these orders were hardly five centuries old, when Vitruvius flourished ; while the division of India into नागर, वेवर and द्राचिड was then several centuries old.
The battle of Marathon B. C. 490 between the Greeks of Asia Minor who had become subject to Persia and the Persians resulted in the victory of the Greeks.