Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s2.t2.8
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s2.t2.8
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v1.c17.s2.t2.8
It is unfortunate that Alexander’s historians were unable to penetrate into the arcana of the Hindus, as Herodotus appears to have done with those of the Egyptians. The shortness of Alexander’s stay, the unknown language in which their science and religion were hid, presented an insuperable difficulty. They could have made very little progress in the study of the language without discovering its analogy to their own.