Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.80

c30.80

Moreover, as will be shown in the next chapter, the bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the great development of brahmanism that arose under the successors of king Bharata who reigned in the upper Ganges-Jumna doab and plain. The language of the Rigveda, as Sir G. Grierson holds, represents the archaic dialect of the upper doab, and that was the region in which the Aryan speech was the purest and whence it spread outwards.¹ The two agree.