Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.151

v2.c4.s4.151

¹⁴ i. 4, 1. Cf. Bühler, Sacred Books of the East, 14, 2, 3; 146, 147, who points out that the Pāripātra Mountains are a part of the Vindhya range in Mālvā, and who suggests that the western boundary was originally the Ādarśa Mountains; for the reading of the manuscripts, and of the scholiast Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita, in the Vasiṣṭha Dharma Sūtra, i. 8, is prāg ādarśanāt, not adarśanāt (corresponding with the Vinaśana of Baudhāyana Dharma Sūtra, i. 2, 9), and the Mahābhāṣya on Pāṇini, ii. 4, 10, has prāg ādarśat. See also for the Buddhist ‘Middle Country’ an article by Rhys Davids, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1904, 83 et seq., with Fleet’s corrections, ibid., 1907, 657; and cf. Keith, ibid., 1908, 1143; Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East, 32, 58, 59; Indian Empire, 1, 303, 304, where the extraordinary theory is adopted that the Madhyadeśa was peopled by a new race of immigrant Āryans, who, travelling viā Chitral and Gilgit, and bringing no women with them, married Dravidian women, and produced the so-called Āryo-Dravidians. It is quite impossible to find any support for this theory in