A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s13.46

v1.c8.s13.46

Ṛgveda, the Aryan Indians were as yet much nearer the west from the geographical point of view.¹ As regards chronology, however, all that we can glean from the inscriptions at Boghazköi is that, about the middle of the second millenary B.C. Aryan tribes which worshipped Vedic gods must already have been established in north-western India for a very considerable time, as several of these tribes had migrated far back to the west as early as about 1400 B.C.² This small but important fact would be supported still further, if it should prove to be true that also traces of Indian numerals are to be found in the Boghazköi texts.³