RT Article
T1 Proto-Indo-European Roots of the Vedic Aryans
JF Entangled Religions
VO 3
A1 Webster, Travis D.
LA English
PB Ruhr-Universität Bochum
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1553177576
AB Recent archaeological evidence and the comparative method of Indo-European historical linguistics now make it possible to reconstruct the Aryan migrations into India, two separate diffusions of which merge with elements of Harappan religion in Asko Parpola’s The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization (NY: Oxford University Press, 2015).This review of Parpola’s work emphasizes the acculturation of Rigvedic and Atharvavedic traditions as represented in the depiction of Vedic rites and worship of Indra and the Aśvins (Nāsatya). After identifying archaeological cultures prior to the breakup of Proto-Indo-European linguistic unity and demarcating the two branches of the Proto-Aryan community, the role of the Vrātyas leads back to mutual encounters with the Iranian Dāsas.
K1 Aryan migrations
K1 Asko Parpola
K1 Hinduism
K1 Vedic religion
DO 10.13154/er.v3.2016.A-V