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 1   1   |   Videhas, who lived in Northern India between the twelfth and
 2   3   |         of Rama is well known in India to this day, and is annually
 3   3   |        is not dead and buried in India, it lives in the hearts
 4   4   |     world here-after. In ancient India as in ancient Greece there
 5   5   |     reader has now left Northern India and crossed the Vindhya
 6   5   |          the Deccan and Southern India. The name of Agastya is
 7   5   |          who opened out Southern India to Aryan colonization and
 8   6   |     millions of men and women in India, Sita remains to this day
 9   7   |         the dwellers of Southern India. They formed an alliance
10   8   |         Ceylon is separated from India by a broad channel of the
11   9, 6|          ruled of yore,~Crossing India's streams and mountains,
12  10   |          over with his army from India to Ceylon. There is a chain
13  10   |       recited and listened to in India; and these have been rendered
14  11   |        of the whole continent of India, as well as to recapitulate
15  11   |        and a living tradition in India to this day.~The portions
16  12   |      were handed down in ancient India by memory. The boys had
17  12   |    preserved in ancient times in India. Rama recognised his sons
18  12   |     millions of men and women in India, however, Sita is not an
19 End   |      which flourished in Western India in the fourth and fifth
20 Epi   |        BY THE TRANSLATOR~Ancient India, like ancient Greece, boasts
21 Epi   |  historical war, is the Iliad of India. The Ramayana, describing
22 Epi   |  religion and thought of ancient India.~The Ramayana, like the
23 Epi   |      that flourished in Northern India about a thousand years before
24 Epi   |        which were known all over India. Their sacrifices and gifts
25 Epi   |         used in various parts of India. Their elaborate Brahmanas
26 Epi   |          gifted races of ancient India.~It would appear that the
27 Epi   |       become a revered memory in India, when the poet composed
28 Epi   | descendants as the Golden Age of India. To the imagination of the
29 Epi   |          hearts of the people of India to the present day.~It is
30 Epi   |          minds of the million in India.~These remarks will be probably
31 Epi   |         hearts of the million in India. And beyond all this, the
32 Epi   |        times. Every Aryan boy in India was taken away from his
33 Epi   |        in the hearts Of women in India which no other creation
34 Epi   |          and devotion in ancient India. The tale of Helen was a
35 Epi   |          will now comprehend why India produced, and has preserved
36 Epi   |        political life of ancient India, with all its valour and
37 Epi   |        religious life of ancient India, with all its tenderness
38 Epi   |        It is the ancient poet of India, and not the translator,
39 Epi   |       have stated before that in India the Ramayana is still a
40 Epi   |          the modern languages of India were first formed out of
41 Epi   |         modern tongues. Southern India took the lead, and a translation
42 Epi   |     early as A.D. 1100. Northern India and Bengal and Bombay followed
43 Epi   |        of Hindus in all parts of India have studied the ancient
44 Epi   |        the length and breadth of India.~More than this, the story
45 Epi   | monotheism of Vishnu in Southern India in the twelfth century;
46 Epi   |       the same faith in Northern India in the thirteenth or fourteenth
47 Epi   |          day the popular mind in India, led away by the worship
48 Epi   |      ancient shrines of Northern India, and far away in the towns
49 Epi   |          and hamlets of Southern India, the prevailing faith of