These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The vedas, says Mr. Basu, were transmitted chiefly in the households by the women. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There was no literature except the oral tradition of the Vedas, and that was chiefly monopolized by the Brahmins; there was even less knowledge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.