Re: [tied] Fwd: Aryanism and Journal of Indo-European Studies

george knysh wrote:

> *****GK: I have recently been rereading the RigVeda
> (in connection with the OBT issue and peripheral
> items).

> There are of course problems in
> disentangling the mythical from the historical here
> But as far as I can see, the Dasa were located in the
> highlands to the north and west of the Arya heartland,
> whence they raided the settled populations of the
> Indus basin. It seems that eventually the latter
> managed to defeat the most dangerous of these raiders
> and forced them to migrate westward (the Zambara
> episode).

BTW, we discused "zambru" here;George, is there any explanation of this
name "Zambara" there in RV?

Alex