Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.31

c14.31

With this knowledge, it is clear that it would be dangerous, in trying to work out the material culture of the first Aryan communities in North-West India, to use evidence from works compiled at a time when Harappā elements may have permeated Aryan society. In the ensuing sections of this chapter, therefore, I have used only the *Rigveda*, which does seem likely to represent faithfully the entrance phase of Aryan conquest, before the Indo-European tradition had become mixed with Harappā elements, while occasionally making reference to the later texts.