Ancient example sentences

In ancient times the area along these rivers to the south of the Ganga was known as Magadha.गंगा के दक्षिण में इन नदियों के आस-पास का क्षेत्र प्राचीन काल में ‘मगध’ नाम से जाना जाता था|One ancient theory that is still encountered today holds that abnormal behaviour can be explained by the operation of supernatural and magical forces such as evil spirits (bhoot-pret), or the devil (shaitan).Khadins, tanks and nadis in Rajasthan, bandharas and tals in Maharashtra, bundhis in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, ahars and pynes in Bihar, kulhs in Himachal Pradesh, ponds in the Kandi belt of Jammu region, and eris (tanks) in Tamil Nadu, surangams in Kerala, and kattas in Karnataka are some of the ancient water harvesting, including water conveyance, structures still in use today (see Figureure 1 3 for an example).In the ancient Western world, it was philosopherphysicians of ancient Greece such as Hippocrates, Socrates, and in particular Plato who developed the organismic approach and viewed disturbed behaviour as arising out of conflicts between emotion and reason.Geologically, the Peninsular Plateau constitutes one of the ancient landmasses on the earth's surface.One of the ancient civilisations, Harappa and Mohenjodaro had perhaps the world's first urban sanitation system.Whenever they wished to challenge a practice that seemed harmful, they tried to find a verse or sentence in the ancient sacred texts that supported their point of view.The emphasis on vernacular language and the collection of local folklore was not just to recover an ancient national spirit, but also to carry the modern nationalist message to large audiences who were mostly illiterate.Let us not despise ourselves, our ancient culture is great.These routes have contributed in the exchange of ideas and commodities since ancient times.Gleaming glass cased office buildings tower over mosques and superhighways crisscross the ancient camel paths.The picture here tries to suggest that Indians willingly gave over their ancient texts to Britannia the symbol of British power as if asking her to become the protector of Indian culture.Efforts to categorise people into personality types have been made since ancient times.In ancient times, it was believed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and the moon, the planets, the Sun and stars were orbiting around it.He tried to show through his writings that the practice of widow burning had no sanction in ancient texts.