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By David Frawley |
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARYAN INVASION IDEA |
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Muller had assumed that the five layers of the four Vedas and
Upanishads were each composed in two hundred year
periods before the Buddha at 500 BC, as they
were in existence by that time.
However, the rates of change for languages are quite speculative,
particularly for those languages, like Sanskrit or Latin which became
scriptural or scholarly languages apart from common dialects. There
are more changes of language within Vedic Sanskrit itself than there are in classical Sanskrit since
Panini, regarded as a figure of around 500 BC, or a period of 2500
years. As classical Sanskrit has remained the same for that time period, the two hundred year strata
for the Vedic language carries no weight at all. Each of these periods could have existed for any number
of centuries and the two hundred year figure is likely too short a
figure.
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