Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.152

v2.c4.s4.152

Vedic literature. To say, as is there said, that the ‘Vedic hymns contain no reference to the route by which the Āryans entered India or to their earlier settlements on the Indus,’ and that this is explained by the theory of the entry of the Vedic Indians viâ Chitral, is to assert absurdities. The theory is based on the later dialects and their affinities (see Grierson, *Indian Empire*, I, 357 *et seq.*); it can probably not be regarded as at all valid for any period—at any rate, it is not cogent for the eighth century, B.C.