"It is absurd to suppose that the elaborate royal genealogies were all merely figments of imagination or a tissue of f…"

"That age [of the Rigveda] is not known with even an approximate degree of certainty."

"They alone contain something like a continuous historical narrative, and it is absurd to suppose that the elaborate r…"

"We may join to their statements Pusalker's comment on the claims staked for several potteries that they belong to the…"

"The words Panik or Vanik, Panya and Vipani, found in Sanskrit, suggest that the Panis were merchants par excellence o…"

"The scene of traditional history opens in India [and it comprises] the whole of Northern India extending in the east …"

"H. Kern in his book Over het woord Zarathushtra (1867) states, “the Bactrian (i.e. Avestan) is so (greatly) related t…"

"German orientalists, A.W. Schlegel claimed in 1819, were not suited to be missionaries or colonizers: “... on the oth…"

"Peter von Bohlen claimed in 1835, the historian of the Orient must treat all people equally: ‘... he must learn to re…"

"At intermediate points along the way, individual verses and entire hymns were inserted into the RV collection."