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 INVASIONS FROM THE NORTHWEST 15 with that old religion of the Vedas which the Aryan forefathers of the Brahmans and Rajputs bore with them through the same narrow entry. Following in their track, Alexander the Great led his armies to meet SCENE IN AN AFGHAN PASS. Porus on the Hydaspes; and after him came Grseco- Bactrian legions to inspire new ideas of art and civiliza- tion, and to learn perhaps more than they taught. Finally the Moslem Turks discovered the same road, and when once they had become familiar with the way, they came again and again on successive inroads, until