Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c12.s12.18

c12.s12.18

There is no evidence from the Nanda and Maurya documents about the spread of the Aryan tongue into the Himalayan regions. Probably the Dardic speaking Aryans (Khasas and other tribes) were penetrating into the Central Himalayan areas (the present Western Pahari and Eastern Pahari regions), and their Dardic Khasa speech was later overlaid by Indo-Aryan from the Midland.