"In view of the fact that Witzel has provided a list of thirty-seven different Vedic river names, these two or three possible exceptions do not make as strong a case as one might have hoped. All the rest can indeed be derived from Indo- European roots. Morever, other scholars have even assigned Indo-Aryan etymologies to two of these three possible exceptions."
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