History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.458

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⁸⁹⁶ Vide J A. O S vol. 67 (for 1947) pp 251-253 by Dr P E Dumont, Gurney on 'The Hittites' (Pelican series) pp. 104-105, Sarton in 'a History of Science' p 85. Hrozny tentatively puts the date at 1360 B C A H. Sayce in Pavry commemoration vol pp 399-402 draws attention to the fact that Hittite numerals like aika, tera, panz, satta, nāwa are Sanskrit and also words like aikawartanna (one turn) and concludes that in Mesopotamia and East Asia Minor lived in 15th century B C. a people that spoke Sanskrit Vide 'Comparative Grammar of the Hittite Language' by E H Sturtevant and E A Hahn, vol I (1951, Yale University Press) p 4 para 8 about the treatment of the few Indian words that are quoted in the Bogazkoy documents. It is stated there that the works on horses composed by Kikkulis of Mitanni contain several technical terms that include Indian numerals, that a treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliumas and Mattiuaza of Mitanni contains the names of several vedic gods, and that these forms are clearly traces of the language of Indian aristocracy in the Hurrian State of Mitanni