The critics of Max Mueller like BC Goldstucker, said that the hypothesis of Max Mueller about the 200 years required for the change of the Vedic language at each stage is based on his faith in the Biblical date of Creation in 4004 BC Dr. Haugh gave the period for the change in Vedic language as 500 years and Dr. Winternitz accepted it as 1000 years. H. H. Wilson, W. D. Whitney and Barthelemeo St. Hillare severely criticized the conjectures of Max Mueller and his date 1500 BC for Aryan invasion. But in spite of this, a majority of the scholars in the West have acted on the dogma that Max Mueller has proved the date 1500 BC for the Aryan invasion on India. Not only the date but the direction of the flow of civilization is accepted from the north-west of India to its southern and eastern limits.

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