"It is easy to see that this estimate [i.e., two hundred years] is far below the minimum of the possible period, durin…"

"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of f…"

"I must atone for my wealth. I will reward the country of my adoption for the great benefits I have gathered."

"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 …"