"Only relative chronology has been well argued for."

"We may reasonably argue that such a fixed form and substance would not easily be possible in the beginnings of though…"

"Max Muller's dating of the Veda illustrates the arbitrariness involved in the production of theories that are then pr…"

"By his [= Playfair’s] attempt to uphold the antiquity of Hindu books against absolute facts, he thereby supports all …"

"The whole foundation of Mueller's date [for the Rigveda] rests on the authority of Somadeva, the author of 'an Ocean …"

"The period between the arrival of the Indo-Aryan in the Indian subcontinent and the composition of the oldest Vedic h…"

"The opinions of best researchers in the matter of the age of the Ṛgveda differed not by a few centuries but by a few …"

"It was once said that dates in Indian studies are like bowling pins, set up only to be knocked down later. I do not t…"

"I need hardly say that I agree with almost every word of my critics. I have repeatedly dwelt on the merely hypothetic…"

"As to the actual date of the Veda … if we were to place it at 5000 BC, I doubt whether anybody could refute such a da…"