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1852–1927 England

Frederick Eden Pargiter (1852 - 18 February 1927) was a British civil servant and Orientalist.

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The river constituted the boundary between the Panjab and the Ganges-Jumna basin.

The next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

"There is a strong presumption in favor of (Indian) tradition; if anyone contests tradition, the burden lies on him to show that it is wrong."

Indian tradition knows nothing of any Aila or Aryan invasion of India from Afghanistan, nor of any gradual advance from thence eastwards.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

Indian tradition distinctly asserts that there was an Aila outflow of the Druhyus through the northwest into the countries beyond where they founded various kingdoms.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

The arguments used to prove the advance of the Aryans from Afghanistan into the Punjab might simply be reversed.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

The Iranians may have been an offshoot from India.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

Tradition… makes the earliest connexion of the Veda to be with the eastern region and not with the Punjab.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

All ancient Indian belief and veneration were directed to the mid-Himalayan region, the only original sacred outside land, and it was thither that rishis and kings turned their steps in devotion, never to the northwest.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

Tradition or myth… directly indicates that the Ailas (or Aryans) entered India from the mid-Himalayan region.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

There was an outflow of people from India before the fifteenth century BC.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

There is nothing in them (Puranic accounts), as far as I am aware, really inconsistent with the most ancient book we possess, namely, the Rigveda, and they throw much light thereon, and on all problems concerning ancient India.

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

"The Druhyus occupied the Punjab, and Mandhātṛ of Ayodhya had a long war with the Druhyu king Aruddha or Aṅgāra and killed him" (PARGITER 1962:167).

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)

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