Guest guest Posted May 21, 2001 Report Share Posted May 21, 2001 R. Kochhar asked: >May I invite diversity of opinion on the following specific question? > >If India is the original home of the Aryans, when did the Avestan branch >separate and migrate out? > Many details on this (futile) question in my forthcoming paper in EJVS 7-3, due now in a few days. Will anncounce it. Short answer: it would be between max. c. 2000 BCE (chariot invention) and min. 835 BCE (Assyrian inscr. mentioning the 27 Pars'uwas' = Persian tribes)... Of course, as EJVS 7-3 will amply show, no Old Iranians moved Out of India... Cheers, MW ======================================================== Michael Witzel Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages) home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm Elect. Journ. of Vedic Studies: http://nautilus.shore.net/~india/ejvs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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