The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c17.89
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¹ The theory of Hoernle, Grierson, and Risley (*Imperial Gaz.*, vol. 1, pp. 303 sq.), which sees in the Rigvedic language the speech of the Middle Country (Madhyadeça) only is not supported by the Rigveda. Only the N.W. region of the Middle Country, which lay between the rivers Sarasvatī and Drishadvatī (Brahmāvarta) was intimately known to the poets of the Rigveda. They show more acquaintance with the Punjab and with the Kābul Valley than with the Middle Country generally, that is to say the region lying between the Sarasvatī and Prayāga, the modern Allahābād.