"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…"

"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…"

"It is quite clear that we cannot fix a terminum a quo, whether the Vedic hymns were composed 1000 or 2000 or 3000 yea…"

"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…"