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 1 Intro,  1 |        languages. But the exact period when the hymns were composed
 2 Intro,  1 | unchanged for the truly immense period of over 3000 years. We must
 3 Intro,  1 |       beginning of the Rigvedic period. This estimate has not been
 4 Intro,  1 |      belong to the Indo-Iranian period when the Indians and the
 5 Intro,  2 |      Indra, to the Indo-Iranian period. They also brought with
 6 Intro,  2 |      the Rigveda from the early period of the Indo-Aryan invasion
 7 Intro,  2 |         B.C., at the end of the period of the Brahmanas, but before
 8 Intro,  4 |        back to the Indo-Iranian period. The hymns of the first
 9 Intro,  6 |      metres of the Indo-Iranian period, in which, as the Avesta
10 Intro,  7 |         sacrifices in the Vedic period were offered to a single
11 Intro,  7 |      down from the Indo-Iranian period. He seems to represent the '
12 Intro,  7 |       by the latter at an early period. Matarisvan is a divine
13 Intro,  7 |   advance of thought during the period of the RV. from the concrete
14 Intro,  7 |         the end of the Rigvedic period. These appellations, compound
15 Intro,  7 |      date from the Indo-Iranian period. The goddess Diti, named
16 Intro,  7 |  parents from the Indo-European period onwards, in all probability
17 Intro,  10|         relic from the remotest period of Indian literature? The
18 Intro,  10|   contradictory.~In the earlier period of Vedic studies, commencing
19 Intro,  10|    literature of the post-Vedic period and the much more advanced
20   1       |     already in the Indo-Iranian period the centre of a developed
21   1       |      personified in that remote period is a matter of conjecture.~
22   6       |     already in the Indo-Iranian period a god resembling the Vrtra-slaying
23   8       |        back to the Indo-Iranian period. For in the Avesta Apam
24  10       |       beginning of the Rigvedic period. As the divine brahman priest
25  15       |        back to the Indo-Iranian period, for Ahura and Mithra are
26  17       |     date from the Indo-European period. The two horsemen, sons
27  18       |        back to the Indo-Iranian period at least, since the Ahura
28  21       |       back to the Indo-European period. It must then have been
29  28       |        back to the Indo-Iranian period, for the primaeval twins,
30  28       |        Yama himself may in that period have been regarded as a