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[^1): See above, p. 57, p. 60, pp. 62 ff., pp. 69 f., p. 75, pp. 79 f., p. 104, pp. 196 ff., pp. 215 f. [^2): The circumstance that the texts were written down when they were no longer completely understood and after a gap had occurred in the tradition, also explains the fact that so frequently passages of diverse contents and different periods occur in all Vedic texts, so that, for instance, some Upaniṣads are to be found among the Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas. See above pp. 124, 149 ff., 226. [^3): The Aitareya-Āraṇyaka already pre-supposed the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā in its division into ten books. (Max Müller, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, pp. 340 f.) [^4): See above, pp. 194 of teachers and a long tradition.¹ Yet we see that, during the whole of this time, which lasted from the first beginnings till the last off-shoots of Vedic literature, the Indo-Aryan people conquered only the comparatively small stretch of land from the Indus as far as the Ganges, the actual Hindustān. If this advance from the extreme north-west over into the eastern Ganges-land already took so long, how many centuries must the conquest of the whole of Central and Southern India have taken! If we consider this, 700 years will no longer appear to us a great period of time.