१२८ भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ मांग अध्यात्मविद्येत आतां, अध्यात्मविद्येत आमच्या हिंदुलोकांचे इतके गहन विचार होते कीं, ह्या जगताचें हिंदूंचा पुरातन शोध. आदिकारण काय असावें अशावि- षयीं त्यांचा तीव्र कोटिक्रर्म, कुशाग्र बुद्धिवाद, आणि अती मागील पृष्ठावरून पुढे चालू. in the later portions of the Vedic writings almost step by step. The writings of the following period, that of the epic, consist of accounts of the internal conflits among the conquerors of the Hindustan themselves, as, for instance, the Maha Bharata; or of the farther spread of Brahmanism towards the south, as, for insta the Ràmáyana. If we con- nect with this the first fairly accurate information about India which we have from a Greek source viz, from Megastenes, ( who as ambassador of Scleucus resided for some time at the Court of Chandragupta ), it becomes clear that at the time of this writer the Brahmanising of Hindustan was alrea- dy completed, while at the time of the Periplus * * the very southermost point of the Dekkan had already become a seat of the worship of the wife of Siva. what a series of years of Centuries must necessarily have elapsed before this boundless tract of country, inhabited by wild and vigorous tribes, could have been brought over to Brahma- nism l ₹ Several hymns of a speculative purport in the last book of the Rig-samhita testify to a great depth पूढे चालू.
