"Dhar (1930) finds problematic is accounting "for the fact that India which is supposed to be the last home of the Aryan race produces the first or the most ancient record of the Aryas (viz., the Vedas], the like of which is not produced by them in their homes in Europe or in Asia outside India" (55). He discounts the possibility that there might once have been older Indo-European texts in Europe that had become lost, since "the instinct of preservation is as strong among the Aryas outside India as in India, for we have Homer and the Avesta preserved to this day" (57). His solution is that "the greater the distance from the primitive Indian home of the Aryas, quite naturally the later in date was the birth of a new Aryan language and literature" (59)."
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Lachhmi Dhar Kalla
Lachhmi Dhar Shastri Kalla was Reader of Sanskrit at St. Stephen's College, the University of Delhi, and head of the Department of Sanskrit from 1922 to 1949.
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