Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.117

c30.117

Further, if we accept the current theory, the above conclusions from the treaty would require that the assumed Indo-Iranian period should be placed much earlier than the sixteenth century B. C.—a result that would render the theory hardly tenable. The above tradition suggests that there may have been no such period, and that the Iranians may have been an offshoot from India, for the outspread from India can not only account for the existence of gods with Indian names and kings with Iranian-like names in the treaty, but may also have led to the genesis of the Iranians. The linguistic and religious differences of Iran may be explained quite as well in this way as by the current theory.¹