18 The Religihn 0f the: Veda.

themselves were never very hum} hin'mt cammicity; quasi~Vcdic banks, (31‘, 21:; we :ehtmhi my. i’acudmm Vhdic bQQkfi were: cmupmzimi at a wry in.th data. when the vurizms and Immiiur MHHH‘H hi mrly inw Spil‘fllim‘l had dried up; Hm}? hairpin panting: haw, mmtly 50m“ wine into the mid skins. Tim hugs (fuzwnnimmv of the Vining, which it ham bum“: my fate; in Imialihil this year (1906), fibSOI‘lfii-i :xbmxt 1m tcxta rmlm m 1653 Vedic.

It is truly humiliating t0 stuchmts (Di ancimt Iridih to have to» answer the: iflti‘VitflhlL’: (llmfitififl as; {if} the: age of the Veda. with a 111m: <2, “ We don’t kman As; regards “their texture, the books hi the: Vania (Ifli’iim great antiquity with no uncertain Vhice, 0m Shulllti like to set: this intrinsically archaic quality he:ch up by actual dates ; those same, almhst fubuimm, ycrt parts» fectly authantic dates that are being bahdiml submit in the ancient histhry 0f Asgyria, Bithylhnia, and Egypt. The late: Professor William I). Whitmy hrft behind the witty saying that Hindu. (iatms are: Mfit‘flly ten-pins set up to be: bowlcd down again... This i3 not altogether so. Buddhadied 477 13.6.. Alexandhr invaded India, in 326 B.C. In. the year 3x3 RC. Candragupta, or Sandrakcttos, “Alexandermliiller,” as Greek writers ominously mouthed over his mama, led a successful revolt against Alexanderh prefects and established the Maurya dynasty in Pfitaliputra,