Beitraege, etc., has treated of the relations with Persia (Fables, IS. iii. 327).  In the works cited above the same author has discussed the relations with all other Western nations, including the Greeks, on which Sykes, Notes on Religious State of India, JRAS. 1841, p. 243, is readable; Bohlen, Altes-Indien, and Levi, La Grece et I’lnde d’apres les documents indiens (revue des etudes grecques, 1891) should be read.[64] The subject of Early Christianity in India has been treated by Burnell, IA. iii. 308, iv. 153, etc. (see also above, p. 479); while Priaulx, in JRAS. 1861, 1862, has written a series of interesting articles on India’s Connection with Rome.  The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana, JRAS. 1859, p. 70, etc., are of no value beside those of Ktesias and Megasthenes.  The origin of the Hindu Alphabet and the native system of Dates have to do with the originality of parts of Hindu literature, but these outlying subjects, which have a literature of their own, we can only touch upon.  A good resume of the discussion in regard to the alphabet will be found in JRAS. xvi. 325, by Cust; a new theory of Franke’s, ZDMG. xlvi. 731.  Halevy derives the alphabet from Greece.  But see now Buehler, Ind.  Studies, iii, 1895 (North Semitic, seventh century, B.C.) The native eras are discussed by Cunningham, Book of Indian Eras; and in Mueller’s India, What Can It Teach Us? p. 282.  On the native date for the beginning of the Kali-yuga, i.e. this age (the year 3101 or 3102 B.C), JRAS. iv. 136, and Thomas, edition of Prinsep’s Antiquities, may be read.[65] A general survey of primitive Aryan culture will be found in Schrader, loc. cit., to which may be added on Vedic (Aryan) metres, Westphal, KZ. ix. 437; and Allen, ib. xxiv. 556 (style, Heinzel, Stil d. altgerm.  Poesie).  On the name [=A]rya, besides loc. cit. above, p. 25, may be added, Windisch, Beitr. z.  Geschichte d.  D. Sprache, iv. 211; Pott, Internat.  Zt. fuer allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ii. p. 105 ff.  Criticism of a too great confidence in the results of the comparattve method, AJP. xv. 154; PAOS. 1895.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  This bibliography is meant only to orient the reader in regard to exegetical literature.  It is not complete, nor does it give editions of texts.  The order follows in general that of the chapters, but the second and last paragraphs respectively must be consulted for interpretation and geography.  Works that cover several fields are placed under the literature of the first.  The special studies on Vedic divinities have been arranged alphabetically.]

[Footnote 2:  On account of the inconvenient form in which appeared the earlier numbers of the JRAS. we cite the Old Series only by date.  All references without date refer to the New Series (vol i, NS., 1864).]