The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.6
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.6
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² Strabo, Bk. xv, chs. 28, 62. For the marriage-mart, compare the Babylonian practice (Herod. i, 196). Exposure of the dead to be devoured by vultures was, and still is, a Persian (Pārsī) custom (Herod. i, 140). It is practised to this day in Tibet, and was in ancient times the usage of the Lichchhavis of Vaisāli, who appear to have been either Tibetans or a cognate people (*Ind. Ant.*, 1903, p. 233). See also S. C. Vidyabhusena, 'The Licchavi Race of Ancient India' (*J. A. S. B.*, vol. lxxx, part I (1902), No. 2).