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In order ‘to facilitate the co-ordination of the data of archaeology with literary evidences,’ Rai Bahadur Ramaprasad Chanda has discussed some of the passages in the Vedic literature, comprising the *Saṁhitās*, *Brāhmaṇas* and *Sūtras*, ‘the youngest in age among which is probably older than the third century B. C.’⁴ He has endeavoured to show that the animosity between the invading Aryans and the original inhabitants of India, including those of the Indus Valley and farther south and the extreme east, was of such a nature that the former destroyed all the towns, cities (*pur*, *pura*) and forts (*durga*)