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Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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By David Frawley |
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| HORSES,
CHARIOTS AND IRON |
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Chariots are the vehicles of an
urban elite or aristocracy, as in their usage in Rome, Greece and the
ancient Middle East. Chariots are appropriate mainly in ancient urban
cultures with much flat land, of which the broad river plain of north
India was the most suitable. Chariots are unsuitable for crossing
mountains and deserts, as the Aryan invasion requires. Meanwhile the term "asvarohi" or one who
mounts horses does not occur in the Rig Veda, showing no basis for
the idea of the Vedic people as mounted horsemen from the steppes.
That the Vedic culture used iron and must date later than the
introduction of iron around 1500 BC revolves around the meaning of
the Vedic term "ayas," interpreted according to the invasion theory as
iron. Ayas in other Indo-European languages like Latin or German
usually means copper, bronze or ore generally, not specifically iron.
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