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Arthur Berriedale Keith
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“Nothing is more unsatisfactory than to attempt to define Indo-European society on the assumption that the Indo-Europeans knew only what can be ascribed to them on con- clusive evidence. Ex hypothesi, there were great dispersals of peoples from the original home, and those who wondered away were unquestionably constantly intermingling with other peoples . . . and it is not to be wondered at that in new surroundings new words were employed; still less can it be a matter of surprise that peoples which ceased to be in contact with natural features soon dropped the names which had become use- less.”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keith, A. B. 1933. "The Home of the Indo-Europeans." In Oriental Studies in Honour of Cursetji Eracliji Pavry (188-199). Ed. J. D. Pavry. London: Oxford University Press. (189-190) quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Qu…
“...the Vedic index. This book is an encyclopedia of historical and sociological knowledge extracted by study of the Vedic texts. It is based on a thorough review of Orientalist research, including especially the work of German Orientalists, but it is at the same time very much a British reading of the Vedic texts and the Orientalist interpretation of them.”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the Vedic index. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India. 208
“It is certain ... that the Rigveda offers no assistance in determining the mode in which the Vedic Aryans entered India., .. If, as may be the case, the Aryan invaders of India entered by the western passes of the Hindu Kush and proceeded thence through the Punjab to the east, still that advance is not reflected in the Rigveda, the bulk at least of which seems to have been composed rather in the country round the Sarasvati river, south of the modern Ambala.”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1922: 79); 1922, The Age of the Rigveda ' in The Cambridge History of India , Vol.I. quoted from THE ṚGVEDA AND INDO-EUROPEANS Author(s): Nicholas Kazanas Source: Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, V…
“By taking the linguistic evidence too literally one could conclude that the original Indo-European speakers knew butter, but not milk; snow and feet but not rain or hands!”
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“Dasyu, a word of some- what doubtful origin, is in many passages of the Rigveda clearly applied to superhuman enemies... Dasa, like Dasyu, sometimes denotes enemies of a demoniac character in the Rigveda.”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
“The same terms are applied indifferently to the human enemies of the Aryans and to the fiends, and no criterion exists by which references to real foes can be distinguished in every case from allusions to demoniacal powers." "Individual Dasas" whom Keith picks out as human examples "are Ilibica, Dhuni and Chumuri, Pipru, Varchin , and Cambara, though the last at least has been transformed by the imagination of the singers into demoniac proportions".”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
“We learn from the Vedic Index: "In some passages the Panis definitely appear as mythological figures , demons who withhold the cows or waters of heaven ... It is difficult to be certain who a Pani was. It is, however, hardly necessary to do more than regard the Panis generally as non-worshippers of the gods favoured by the singers; the term is wide enough to cover either the aborigines or hostile Aryan tribes as well as demons.”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
“The Sarasvatī comes between the Jumna and the Sutlej, the position of the modern Sarsūti . . . There are strong reasons to accept the identification of the later and the earlier Sarasvatī throughout [the Rig Veda].”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Macdonell, A.A. & A.B. Keith, Vedic Index°, vol. 2, pp. 435-36. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“The word seems beyond doubt to be connected with the root seen in the Greek pernemi, and the sense in which it was used by the poets must have been something like 'niggard'. The demons are niggards because they withhold from the Aryan the water of the clouds: the aborigines are niggards because they refuse the gods their due, perhaps also because they do not surrender their wealth to the Aryans without a struggle. The term may also be applied to any foe as an opprobrious epithet, and there is no passage in the Sarnhita which will not yield an adequate meaning with one or other of these uses. But it has been deemed by one high authority?" to reveal to us a closer connexion of India and Iran than has yet suggested itself: in the Dasas Hillebrandt sees the Dahae, in the Panis the Parnians, and he locates the struggles of Divodasa against them in Arachosia. Support for this view he finds in the record of Divodasa's conflicts with Brisaya and the Paravatas, with whose names he compares that of the Satrap Barsentes [of Alexander's time] and the people Paruetae of Gedrosia or Aria [in the same period]. Similarly he suggests that the Srifijaya people, who wereconnected like Divodasa with the Bharadvaja family, should be located in Iran, and he finds in the Sarasvati, which formed the scene of Divodasa's exploits , not the Indian stream but the Iranian Harahvaiti. Thus the sixth book of the Rigveda would carry us far west from the scenes of the third and seventh which must definitely be located in India. But the hypothesis rests on .too weak a foundation to be accepted as even plausible”
Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.