"The Vedic Aryans, if at all they came from outside, ... must have lived in the Sapta-Sindhu [the region of the seven rivers in the ancient Punjab] so many centuries before the Vedic period that they had lost all memory of an original home."
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S. Srikanta Sastri " Appendix" to "The Aryan Problem", The Vedic Age, in:The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
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S. Srikanta Sastri
Sondekoppa Srikanta Sastri (5 November 1904 – 10 May 1974) was an Indian historian, Indologist, and polyglot.
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