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∗ A study of the Vedic period is presented by Zimmer’s *Altindisches Leben*. Weber’s *Collectanea* (*Indische Studien*, vol. x.), Lassen’s *Indische Alterthumskunde*, and Müller’s India touch on some of the points here discussed. Of Wilson’s Art of War and Rājendralāla-Mitra’s Indo-Aryans I shall speak more particularly below. On Epic antiquities Muir has some scattered remarks and a few special studies in his Sanskrit Texts. To these general acknowledgment is due. The term Epic I limit, for convenience, to the Mahābhārata, although,