The noted scholar I. Mahadevan of Indus script fame postulates that the Vellalas who are identified with the Velirs have migrated from Dwaraka to the southern states some 3200 to 3500 years BP. He identifies them as the marvelous creators of the Harappan civilization. He further remarks that the naidus of Andhra and nairs of Kerala form part of the greater vellala community.

Notwithstanding his monastic education, he proved himself a statesman, a scholar, an amateur of physical science, and an accomplished man of the world.

Largely unnoticed by his science fiction readership but hinted at by his Future at War series, it proved him a scholar of varied talents.

As a child he was sickly ; when old enough to learn he was sent to the monastic school of St. Gall, where he proved to be an excellent scholar.

James was educated at Norwich Grammar School under Edward Valpy, as good a scholar as his better-known brother Richard, but proved too sensitive for state school.

Xun Yu proved to be a talented youth, and was evaluated by the scholar He Yong as " someone capable of assisting kings " ( 王佐之才 ).

Sri Venkatanatha proved to be a very brilliant scholar from a very young age who learnt to play the Veena very proficiently thanks to his father and grandfather.

German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius considered Alexander to have belonged to the sect of the Methodici, but in the opinion of Freind this is not proved sufficiently by the existing text.

On the Spanish translations of this work, the scholar González Echeverría proved at ISHM that Michel de Villeneuve ( better known as Michael Servetus ) carried out this task in the edition of 1551, at his friend, the printer, Jean Frellon's workshop.

Adama proved a bright scholar and a pious Muslim, and he earned the title Modibo, " Lettered One ".

When Nikon fell into disgrace, the scholar supported him and proved that his deposition was contarary to the laws of the church.

The Kannada king and scholar Someshwara III, reigning in the area now called Karnataka, included an idli recipe in his encyclopedia, The Manasollasa, written in Sanskrit ca.

He learnt that Vijaya Nagar ruler Sri Krishnadeva Raya was a revered patron for poetry and poets besides being a scholar in Kannada, Telugu and Sanskrit languages on par.

He patronised Kannada poet Chatu Vittalanatha and the great singer Purandaradasa ( Father of Carnatic music ) and the Sanskrit scholar Rajanatha Dindima II.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

The scholar William Mitford suggested that Pelopidas was taken prisoner in battle, but the language of Demosthenes hardly supports such an inference.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

It was the failure of Dalhousie to appoint a prominent Baptist pastor and scholar, Edmund Crawley, to the Chair of Classics, as had been expected, that really thrust into the forefront of Baptist thinking the need for a College established and run by the Baptists.

His father, Aibo, was a brother of Chiyya, who lived in Palestine, and was a highly esteemed scholar in the collegiate circle of the patriarch Judah I.

` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge.

The poem fell into obscurity for decades, and its existence did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

In 1943 the German biblical scholar Martin Noth suggested that this history was composed by a single author / editor, living in the time of the Exile ( 6th century BCE ).

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

They were first divided into separate books by the early Christian scholar Origen, in the 3rd century AD, and the separation became entrenched in the 5th century AD when it was followed by Jerome in his Latin translation of the Bible.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

* After the Maharal of Prague had initiated organised Mishnah study ( Chevrat ha-Mishnayoth ), Yomtov Lipman Heller ( who is often believed to be his pupil but came to Prague already as a mature scholar ) wrote a commentary called Tosafot Yom Tov.

The number of Istro-Romanian speakers has been reduced due to their assimilation into other linguistic groups that were either already present or introduced by their respective new rulers of Istria: in the 1921 Italian census, there were 1, 644 declared Istro-Romanian speakers in the area, while in 1926 Romanian scholar Sextil Pușcariu estimated their number to be closer to 3, 000.

* Daniel ( 1839 – 1859 ), who was already a promising pianist and gifted scholar when he died of tuberculosis.

The precocious young Niebuhr by 1794 was already an accomplished classical scholar and who read several languages.

At its founding, four distinct courses of lectures of this class were then established: one on Philology, offered by distinguished scholar and statesman, George P. Marsh ; a second by Dr. Francis Lieber, a standard writer upon topics of Political Science and of International Law, then a professor at Columbia College ; a third course on Ethics, by Professor Nairne, also of the College ; and a fourth on Municipal Law, by Theodore W. Dwight, then Professor of Law in Hamilton College, New York, which at the time already had a flourishing Law School.

Educated chiefly at home by his father, Campbell was already a good Latin scholar when he went to the University of Glasgow in 1811.

Performer, choreographer, and scholar I Wayan Dibia cites a contrasting theory that the Balinese were already developing the form when Spies arrived on the island.

Two of these were already known and had been attributed by the 12th-century AD Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes to the Hellenistic epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, a Macedonian who spent his literary career in Alexandria.

However, scholar Holger Briel argues that " only in a society that already has a predilection for monsters and is used to interacting with octopods such images might arise ," citing Hokusai's print an early exemplar of such a tradition.

Non-philosophy is not metaphilosophy because, as Laruelle scholar Ray Brassier notes, " philosophy is already metaphilosophical through its constitutive reflexivity ".

Quebec is not explicitly declared distinct in the Constitution of Canada, however constitutional scholar Peter Hogg argues that several parts of the Constitution already indicate Quebec has distinctiveness that should be reflected in law.

Famine scholar Alex de Waal observes that while the famine that struck the country in the mid-1980s is usually ascribed to drought, " closer investigation shows that widespread drought occurred only some months after the famine was already under way.

He had already formed an extensive library and had acquired a reputation as a scholar and antiquary.

Though purposefully modeled on the Privilegium Minus, the original of which " got lost " at the same time, the bundle was already identified as a fake by contemporaries like the Italian scholar Francesco Petrarca.

On one occasion, when he conferred with the imperial scholar Wei Ao ( 韋澳 ), Wei told him that he was already the emperor who had exerted the most power over the eunuchs within recent memory — to which Emperor Xuānzong, appearing stressed, stated, " You are not correct.

Frederick the Great thought so highly of the book that he asked the scholar Christian Garve to do a new translation of it, even though there had been already two German translations since 1756.

His father, Sheikh Bashir Ibrahimi, a renowned scholar, was already fighting the French colonialism not with a military weapon but with his sharp pen and voice.

The Hungarian Kushite scholar László Török notes that there were probably already Kushite garrisons stationed in Thebes itself during Kashta's reign both to protect this king's authority over Upper Egypt and to thwart a possible future invasion of this region from Lower Egypt.

In 1849, already a fair scholar, he came to Copenhagen University as a bursarius ( bursar ) in the Regense College.

Dover was a scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1595, possibly as a sizar at Queens ' College: during his time at Cambridge the " Gog Magog Games " were held on the Gog Magog Hills outside Cambridge, although it is not known whether these were already being termed " Olympik " as was the case by 1620.