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... 86 Example of the Kalash-Kafirs in our own age 86-87 Original provenance of the Maryanni and the Kassites 87-88 The case of the Hittites 88-89 11. Relation between the Achaemenid Inscriptions and the Avesta 90 Relation between the Avesta and the Rigveda 90 Relation ...

... conformity with what the Purānas tell about Aryan migrations from India. Whatever differences there may be from Sanskrit seem to be due solely to the inadequacy of the Akkadian syllabary employed by the Hittites. But several scholars have taken another view. 2 They see in the numerals an archaic Indo-Irānian dialect pointing to a language outside India and preceding Rigvedic no less than Gāthic In support ...

... Hindustan, 24 Hindu, The, i, 23fn., 30fn. Hissar, 7, 8, 68, 76 Historical Geography, 13-15 History of Sanskrit Literature, 38fn., 103, 119 Hittite, Hittite King, Hittites, 2, 32, 88-9, 93 Homeric poems, 18 Horned Deity, 100 Horon, 86 Horse, 7-9, 32, 37, 57-60, 69-77 Hrozny, B., 88 Hunter, G.R., 51fn. Hymns ...

... then, as later, are to be seen in the front line Indo-European, Aryan peoples. One of these peoples may have been the later Aryans of Khurri-Mitanni." 12 Lastly, what shall we say about the Hittites themselves, whose language Hrozny has identified as Indo-European and a king of whom struck the Mitanni treaty with Mattiwaza? Their first presence is attested in c. 1950 B.C. (or a little 10 ...

... Boghaz-keui, dated c. 1360 B.C. but with a background of Aryan rulership on the Upper Euphrates from c. 1500 B.C. - documents comprising a treaty by a Maryanni king of the Mitanni peoples with a Hittite king and Kikkuli's fragmentary handbook on horse-breeding – suggest an archaic Indo-Irānian dialect, which was not yet fully characterized either as Indo-Aryan or as Irānian and which would seem to ...

... Ghosh himself adverts, in a particular context, to its archaicness. He tells us that it looks the oldest at present in the Aryan family of languages despite its being "definitely of later origin than Hittite or Tocharian". 10 Here is a comparative problem which, according to him, has no sure solution and what he essays as an explanation is frankly confessed by him to be "a hypothesis pure and simple and ...

... can form no such pattern as our sign exhibits. On the other hand, wherever in the ancient world spoked wheels are shown, they correspond very accurately with the depiction before us. Egyptian, late Hittite and Assyrian examples have even the same number of spokes 21 as on the Harappān seals, weapons and potsherds. Fairservis's idea can safely be brushed aside. To the doubt whether the Harappā ...

... himavantah, 313 Hindu /Sindhu, 267 Hindukush, 282, 284 hiranya, 235-6 Hissar, 234, 311 History to Prehistory ..., by G.R. Sharma, 220, 250, 278-80 Hittite, 273, 274, 368-9 Hlopina, 311 Hoffmann, 291 horse, 159-61, 166, 169-71, 179-84, 205, 208, 215, 216, 220, 221, 225, 230, 232, 234, 238, 243, 247-50, 264, 265, 276-8, 325, 419 bones... 253-5 Indo-European language(s) (see also Proto-Indo-European), 177, 215, 254, 256, 260, 262-76, 369 and Sanskrit, 272-7 Indo-Europeans, 263-4, 266, 271, 274-6 Indo-Hittite theory, 274 Indo-Iranian (language), 207, 214, 266, 269, 278, 400 Indo-Iranian religion, 269, 400, 403, 419 Indo-Irānians, 254, 266, 270, 276-7, 280, 312 Indra, 185 ...

... peans. Greek, Hittite, Latin, etc. belong to a much later chronological stage: on the basis of linguistic change they are comparable to Middle Indo-Aryan as they show assimilation, Middle Indo-Aryan type of vowel-sandhi, syncretism, etc. in common. 170 The claim of Hittite as an archaic language was wrongly made by some scholars on the basis of the Laryngeal Theory and the Indo-Hittite Theory. Both... the Indian ásura- and the Hittite haššu from the same root and in his view the Germanic *ansuz is probably also from this root. He says:V'There seems to have been an 407. Op. cit. , p. 130, col. 2. 408. Op. cit. , pp. 43-44. 409. Ibid. , p. 36. Page 368 Indo-European word *Hesu- from which came Avestan ahu- 'Lord' and Hittite haššu 'king' and an Indo-Iranian... simple vowels as well as in diphthongs. In consonants it retains the contrast of voiced and voiceless, aspirates and non-aspirates more perfectly. No other Indo-European language like Greek, Latin, Hittite retains the contrast perfectly. For example, Greek confuses Indo-European voiced aspirates with voiceless aspirates (e.g. Indo-European th and dh become th in Greek). In morphology, Sanskrit ...