"In order to account for this fact, we are bound to assume that the language of the original population of the towns o…"

"Another problem is how to account for Indo-Iranian isolates which have been borrowed into Uralic [...which form part …"

"In the case of Indo-Iranian, there may have been early differentiation between the Indo-Aryan and Iranian branches, e…"

"Starting with the assumption that loanwords reflect change in environment and way of life, we get the following pictu…"

"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…"