So far, we have examined the history of the Vedic Aryans on the basis of the Rigveda. This history is important in a wider context: the context of the history of the Indo-Iranians, and, further, the history of the Indo-Europeans.
The evidence of the oldest literary records of the Indo-European family of languages, the Rigveda and the Avesta, as we have seen, clearly and unambiguously depicts a movement of the “Indo-Iranians” from the east to the west and northwest.