ABSTRACT
IN the second or Epic Period, the kingdoms of Magadha and Anga, i.e., South and East Behar, were scarcely yet within the Aryan pale. It was in che Rátionalistic Period, after 1000 B.c., that Magadha became completely Aryanised, and rose in power and civilisation, until it eclipsed and even subdued the more ancient Aryan kingdoms in the Gangetic valley. And it was then, probably in the fifth century B.c., that Bengal proper and Orissa received from the flourishing kingdom of Magadha the first rays of Aryan civilisation.
