Excerpt from Vedic India: As Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda The present volume, as originally planned, was to have included the post-vedic or Brahmanic period, and to have borne the title of Story of Vedic and Brakmam'c India. The overwhelming mass of material, however, made it impossible to keep to the original plan, except at the cost of lucidity, com pleteness, interesting detail, and all the qualities that go to make a book with any claim to popularity. Nothing remained but to divide the subject-matter into the two halves into which it naturally separates, and leave the Story of Bra/tenant? India to the im mediately following volume, which will embrace the results attained by the study of the atharva-veda, the Brahmanas, the Upanishads, the Laws, and a synopsis at least of the great epics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.