Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

Other Sources of Ancient
Indian History
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Rigveda is after all a book which reflects
—
only a specific period of the past history of Pakistan.
Professor Bradley Keith and ProfessorJacobi
and other scholars of history of their calibre
are of opinion that Yajurveda, Atharveda, their
commentaries and even Jataka tales are pro*
ductive of
useful results from the historical and
cultural viewpoint and, with their help, they and
other historians have compiled a connected bis
tory of the political and social life of the Aryans
and other Indian nations in the period following
the writing of Rigveda.
These scholars are of
opinion that, according
to the testimony of the above-mentioned books,
the tide of Aryan emigration in this period, eight
hundred years before Christ, reached the river
Saraswati and their politics did not remain confined
to the land of five rivers.
While discussing changes in the geographic
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