Indo-Aryan words in Hurrian

[N. Ganesan]

>>In short: if Mitanni has, by 1400 BC, mazda, vaz'hana, then the RV medha,
>>vaahana is *late*/later. Note that Possehl now wants to bring down the
>>date of iron as well. If this goes down from
>>c.1200 to, say, 1000 BCE, so goes the RV. It has no iron, yet.

Dr. S. Farmer writes:
>The dates suggested by Possehl and Gullapalli (1999) are actually
>900 BCE, Michael -- and these are the *earliest* dates, not those
>of any wide diffusion, which they date c. 900 - 300 BCE.

Then:

If the RV's final redaction in Panjab is around 1000 - 900 BCE,
does the Mitanni text (c. 1380 bCE) represent a pre-OIA stage
where Aryans have not entered India?

Regards,
N. Ganesan


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