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Excerpt from Life in Ancient India The Vedas. - Sir W. J ones. - Colebrooke. - Valuable Essays. - New Translations of Vedas. - Address to the Sun. - Various Versions. Deities in rig-veda. Sun. Dawn. Agni. Worship of Light. Horse-sacrifice. Indra. Soma-j uice. Festivals. Plant. - Hindus at the period of the rig-veda.-forest. - Moun tains. - Plains. - Enemies. - Dark-coloured Aborigines. - Fields of Barley. - arts.-weaving. Metals. - Trade. Ships. - Wo men. - Medicine. - Quackery. - The Aswins. - Poetry. - Bards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.