TRACING VEDIC DIALECTS - People.fas.harvard.edu
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(Yugandhara in the Matsya area, ĀpMp)<br />
500 B.C. Persians have conquered<br />
Gandhāra, Panjab and Sindh<br />
Late Vedic immigration of<br />
Vṛjji, Malla, Śākya, etc.<br />
into Bihar (E.Kosala, Videha);<br />
no longer mentioned in the<br />
Ved. texts, attested in Pāli texts<br />
as Vajji, etc.<br />
500- B.C. NBP: Northern Black Polished Ware spreads over N.India<br />
150+ B.C. New waves of immigration: Abhīra (Pat.), Śaka, etc.<br />
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§10.6 Conclusion and prospects<br />
What remains to be done is to collect many more features of the various<br />
Vedic dialects from the texts, 356 - preferably with the help of the<br />
computer. Many more larger or smaller facets and aspects of the dialects,<br />
the overlay of various features, either agreeing with or transgressing the<br />
dialect boundaries stipulated above, will have to be collected, so that<br />
some of the isolated features treated in this article (like u/o in puruvasu-)<br />
are put into perspective. Only then will it become clear whether all the<br />
tendencies and trends mentioned above are borne out, or whether they<br />
were sometimes established on a too limited collection of material.<br />
In particular, the position of the transitional dialects, like that of Kosala<br />
and of the South (Jaim.) should be investigated in much more detail, and<br />
at the same time be separated from such late intrusions as are visible in<br />
VSK, ŚBK, and PB.<br />
An intriguing investigation could be made into the probability of a late<br />
Vedic "Eastern Koine" which would then have included the Videha-<br />
Kosala area but would have influenced, more or less heavily, the Central<br />
and Southern texts like VādhB, BŚS, JB, JUB, and ChU.<br />
356 I propose to do so, periodically, in various journals.<br />
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