288 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1912.] 
manic dominion in Northern India by the great horse-sacrifice 
The theories of Rhys Davies, Bhandarkar and Hopkins that 
Brahmanas were altogether suppressed for several centuries by 
the Maurya rule stands refuted completely. 
n another paper I have shown how Sanskrit Language and 
Literature flourished luxuriantly in the 1st and 2nd centuries 
B.c., and in the Ist, 2nd and 3rd centuries a.p. It so flou- 
suppressed in Northern India during the Ist and 2nd centuries 
B.C., and when it emerged from its depressed condition in the 
lst century a.D. it became so saturated with Brahmanic ideals 
that it was a new religion altogether. 
