Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c30.66

c30.66

**Professor Schrader, Kiel, Germany.**—The Antiquity of the *Rig Veda* is a sober and useful little piece of research work with which, on the whole, I fully agree. If we follow Jacobi and Tilak we create a gap (which we cannot bridge over) between the Mantras and the Brāhmaṇas, for the latter are certainly not far removed from early Buddhism. On the other hand, if Hertel were right, the Ṛg Veda would immediately precede Buddhism, and there would be no room at all for Brāhmaṇas and Upaniṣads.