Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.112

c30.112

Further light is thrown on this matter by a treaty between a Hittite king and a king of Mitanni found at Boghazkeui. It mentions, as noticed by Professor Jacobi,⁴ certain gods who can be none other than Mitra, Varuṇa, Indra and the Nāsatyas (Aśvins). These are Indian Aryan gods,⁵ and he has shown that they could not belong to the period prior (according to the current theory) to the separation of the Indian and Iranian branches. The date of the treaty has been fixed reliably now about 1400 B.C., and therefore the folk of Mitanni who worshipped these gods had arrived there earlier, probably late in the sixteenth century. These facts prove (1) that there was an outflow of people from India before the fifteenth century B.C.; (2) that they brought Aryan gods from India; (3) that therefore Aryans and their gods existed in India before the sixteenth century; and (4) that the Aryans had entered India earlier still. These facts and conclusions are hardly reconcilable with the current theory about the entrance of the Aryans into NW. India and the composition of the hymns of the Rigveda.⁶