All ancient Indian belief and veneration were directed to t… - Frederick Eden Pargiter

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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.

Frederick Eden Pargiter

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

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The Aryans began at Allahabad, conquered and spread out northwest, west and south, and had by YayAti’s time occupied precisely the region known as MadhyadeSa… They expanded afterwards into the Punjab and East Afghanistan, into West India and the northwest Dekhan…

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