Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.120

c30.120

The current theory, that the Aryans invaded India through the north-west after separating from the Iranians, and entered in two streams, must face and account for the following facts and considerations: (1) Indian tradition knows nothing whatever of that. (2) The north-west and the Panjab were not regarded as an ancient home, nor with veneration or special esteem. (3) Tradition has preserved copious and definite accounts giving an entirely different description of the earliest Ailas (Aryans) and their beginnings in India. (4) The mid-Himalayan region was the sacred land, and those accounts reveal why. (5) They elucidate the Aila domination of India so that it agrees with the Aryan occupation, geographically and linguistically, altogether accurately yet quite unostentatiously. (6) Tradition makes the brahmans originally a non-Aryan institution, ascribes the earliest of the Rigvedic hymns to non-Aryan kings and rishis, and makes the earliest connexion of the Vedas to be with the eastern region and not with the Panjab, as will appear in the next chapter. (7) All this copious tradition was falsely fabricated, and the truth has been absolutely lost, if the current theory is right; is this probable? (8) If all this tradition is false, why, how, and in whose interests was it all fabricated? (9) If it is false, how comes it that the fifth point above is right? (10) Indian tradition suggests a reverse origin for the Iranians, which is linguistically tenable, which harmonizes with the Boghaz-keui treaty, and which can account for their language and religion.