"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…"

"The connections of Book 5 with Books 1 and 8 and not with the other clan books (2-4, 6-7) is interesting, since it se…"

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

"the breakdown of the strict separation of the ritual poetry of different clans and the preservation of that poetry to…"

"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…"

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