Publisher: Educational Society Press
Publication date: 1880
ISBN: 979-462-883-2
Number of pages: 397
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: .as the oldest of the Aryan languages, and exists in its primitive form in the Vedas, the oldest literary books of the Hindus. It continued as the literary as well as the popular language of the Hindu Aryans, who were emigrants from Central Asia, up to about 900 B.C., after which it ceased to be their vernacular, although it continued to be sedulously cultivated for all the higher purposes of literature