The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c8.36

v1.c8.36

A very serious difficulty, it must be added, presents itself in the way of the early dating of the Rigveda in the shape of the fact that it seems very dubious whether we can place at all early the period of the dispersal of the Indo-Europeans or of the Indo-Iranians. If the Rigveda belongs to even 2000 b.c. we must assume that the Indo-Iranians parted at some date decidedly before that epoch, and there certainly seems every reason, arguing from general probabilities, not to place the entrance of the Aryans into India substantially before 1600 b.c.,⁴ and the process was probably one of long duration and slow accomplishment.