The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c9.s2.19

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²¹ Cf. the literature in fn. 19 and 20. There are weighty reasons to assume that the NE Iranians represent the first wave of Aryan-speaking immigrants in South Asia, cf. Roman Ghirshman, L'Iran et la migration des Indo-aryens et des Iraniens, Leiden 1977; Homer L. Thomas, Archaeological evidence for the migrations of the Indo-Europeans, in: Edgar C. Polome (ed.), The Indo-Europeans in the Fourth and Third Millennia, Ann Arbor 1982, 61-86; A. Parpola, The pre-Vedic Indian background of the srauta rituals, in: Frits Staal (ed.), Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, Vol. II, Berkeley 1983, 41-75; moreover, the three-walled fortress of Dashly suggests that the NE Iranians were the Dāsas mentioned as their enemies by the Rigvedic Aryans, cf. A. Parpola, The Sky Garment, Studia Orientalia 57, Helsinki 1985, 76-78.