"Hinduism is one of the greatest assimilants that the world has known... It is infinitely absorbent like the ocean."

"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."

"The formation of the ṛksamhita [....] appears to have been carried out in three stages. First, the ‗clan books‘ 2-7 w…"

"the pavamāna collection consists primarily of late authors, those from Books 1, 5, 8 and in a limited number of cases…"

"We need not rely exclusively on the Anukramaṇī to affirm that there were important interactions between the priestly …"

"the clan book composers, except those from Book 5, are not well represented among the pavamāna composers of Book 9."

"These circles are represented by the Kāṇva, Ātreya and Āngirasa authors from Books 1, 5 and 8, as well as by descenda…"