[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s21.1102 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.1102 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.1102 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s21.1102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.1102) ¹³ vii. 5, 3. Possibly, in some cases, the palisade was no more than a hedge of thorn or a row of stakes (\*cf.\* Rv. x. 101, 8), as suggested by Zimmer, \*Altindisches Leben\*, 143, 145; and \*cf.\* Rv. viii. 53, 5, as corrected by Roth, \*Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft\*, 48, 109. Cf. Zimmer, \*Altindisches Leben\*, 142-148, who compares the fact that neither the Germans (Tacitus, \*Germania\*, 16) nor the Slavs (Procopius, \*De bello Gotico\*, iii. 14) lived in towns, but, like the ancient Indians, were scattered in villages, each consisting of the houses and steadings of the several families living in the village. The evidence seems pretty convincing. It is true that the Greeks, when we first find them, evidently knew castles and fortresses of the mediæval type; but the Greeks were clearly an invading race, superimposed on an older and in civilization more advanced people (see, e.g., Burrows, \*Discoveries in Crete\*). But the Pur may, as Zimmer allows, have sometimes been built within the limits of the village. Whether, as he urges (144), the śaradi pur was a protection against the floods of autumn is uncertain. \*Cf.\* Rv. i. 131, 4; 174, 2; vi. 20, 10. In particular, it is not legitimate to connect the mention of those forts with the fact that the Pūrus - [Previous: v1.c3.s21.1101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.1101) - [Next: v1.c3.s21.1103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.1103) - [Up: v1.c3.s21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21) ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.131.4) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.1102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.1102) · Pramāṇa