Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s3.5

v2.c27.s3.5

Comparative Study of Festivals.—Sir Wm. Jones remarks, “If the festivals of the old Greeks, Persians, Romans [559], Egyptians, and Goths could be arranged with exactness in the same form with the Indian, there would be found a striking resemblance among them; and an attentive comparison of them all might throw great light on the religion, and perhaps on the history, of the primitive world.”