२६ भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग mans won, resulted, in no small measure, from the benifits which they bestowed. For their own Aryan countrymen, they developed, a noble language and literature. The Brahmans were not only the priests and philosophers. They were also the law givers, the administra- tors, the men of science, and the poets of their race. Their influence on the aboriginal peoples, the hill and forest races of India, was not less important. To these rude remnants of the flint and bronze ages they brought in ancient times a knowledge of the metals and of the gods. Within the historical period, the Brahmans have incorporated the mass of the backward races into the social and religious organization of Hinduism. (Iudian Empire by W. W. Hunter, P. P. 96-97.) एलफिन्स्टन् साहेब हे आपल्या हिंदुस्थानच्या इतिहासांत ब्राम्हणांविषयीं असे लिहितात की:- 66 *
- And, from the early excellence
of the Brahmans in all these branches of learn- ing, it is probable that they had made con- siderable progress even when this code (Manu Smriti ) was formed. "
«Their internal institutions were less rude; their conduct to their enemies more humane ;
