Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi
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Linguistic Evidence<br />
and the Vedas<br />
1 his doss not end the matter. All the linguistic<br />
research done by linguists like Max Muller, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Bashim, Ipson, Satchraider,<br />
Weber, Grimm,<br />
Zimmer, 01denberg,Jacquin,Gos Woold.Theobot,<br />
Macdonnel, T. Brow.and Rawlson relies on those<br />
very books which have beendeclared to be merely<br />
conjectural.<br />
For example, Rigveda is the first source for the<br />
researches <strong>of</strong> the linguists and, according to some<br />
Indian scholars, Rigveda was written six thousand<br />
years before Christ.<br />
If this claim <strong>of</strong> the Indian scholars is<br />
rejected,<br />
even then, as Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Bashim say s in his famous<br />
work. Wonder That Was India, the last hymns <strong>of</strong><br />
Rigveda testify to the fact that this book had been<br />
written long before the birth <strong>of</strong> Buddha. 1<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Bal Ganga Dhara Tilak claims that<br />
Rigveda was written between 450J and 2000 b.c . 2<br />
1 Bashim, Wonder That Was India , p. 31.<br />
2. Tilak, Prehistoric India t pp, 224-323.
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