[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Ancient Indian Historical Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922) › c30.74 # Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.74 Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.74 - **Language:** English ### [c30.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.74) According to tradition in chapter XXIV the Ailas or Aryans began at Allahabad, conquered and spread out north-west, west and south, and had by Yayāti’s time occupied precisely the region famed as Madhyadeśa. They possessed that Mid-land definitely and made it their own thoroughly, so that it was ‘their true pure home’, as Sir G. Grierson describes it linguistically.² They expanded afterwards into the Panjab and East Afghanistan, into West India and the north-west Dekhan, into East and South Bihar and into Bengal—precisely as he finds the Aryans did linguistically in those very regions, which he calls the ‘Outer Band’. ³ Also it has been pointed out that the Ayodhyā realm was non-Aila, was not subdued by the Ailas and was only influenced by them. This agrees exactly with his linguistic inference, that in Oudh ‘there is a mixture \[of language\] of the same nature, although here the Midland language has not established itself so firmly as it has in the west and south’. ⁴ - [Previous: c30.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.73) - [Next: c30.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.75) - [Up: c30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.74) · Pramāṇa