TRACING VEDIC DIALECTS - People.fas.harvard.edu
TRACING VEDIC DIALECTS - People.fas.harvard.edu
TRACING VEDIC DIALECTS - People.fas.harvard.edu
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| early in the |<br />
RV hymns composed | Malwa culture |<br />
| |<br />
gold, silver, ayas (copper) | Kīkaṭa, S. of<br />
mentioned, no iron; no rice | Kurukṣetra =<br />
| later Niṣāda?<br />
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1180 BRW: Black & Red ware<br />
KURU ( with iron!)<br />
establishment of |<br />
1st centre Kuru realm in | | chalcolithic<br />
E.Panjab/W. Uttar Pradesh | (rice)<br />
(Kurukṣetra as centre) |<br />
Pārikṣita dynasty |<br />
|<br />
collection of RV 1-10, |<br />
PS, SV, RVKh (kuntāpa hymns!), and | Kāśī = outsiders<br />
Mantras of Car.S, MS, KS composed and | (PS)<br />
collected;<br />
composition of early (lost) Br.type<br />
explanation of the Śrauta ritual<br />
Iron first mentioned in AV:<br />
śyāma- ayas-<br />
rice first mentioned (AV, Mantras)<br />
______________________________________________________________<br />
1000/900- PGW: Painted Gray Ware No PGW!<br />
YV prose composed and<br />
collected in MS,KS<br />
ABo<br />
General movement towards the East<br />
(KS) and South (MS)<br />
impermanence of settlements:<br />
grāma = trek; wattle huts;<br />
Immigration into<br />
and conquest of<br />
Kurukṣetra by the<br />
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