Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c13.12

c13.12

As to the relation between the Vedic and the Indus Civilisations, it is surely fantastic to regard the former as earlier than the latter or to ascribe the authorship of the Indus Civilisation to the Aryans.⁸ Sir John Marshall has conclusively shown that the Indus Civilisation was quite distinct from and earlier than the Aryan Vedic Civilisation.⁹ Formerly, there seemed to be a wide gulf in time between the Pre-Vedic and Non-Aryan Indus Civilisation on the one hand, and the Aryan Vedic Civilisation on the other. But the tendency of modern Archaeological progress is to bridge the gulf between the two increasingly (See e.g., Indian Archaeology, A Review 1953-4 loc. cit.).