3:> GIUFFRIDA-RUGGERI & CHAKLADAR 



The fact that the Aryan language has come to the 

 country does not take from the view that the Indian 

 Peninsula makes up an extreme area of the leucodermic 

 penetration, an area that is comparable with that of 

 anterior Asia, which we have considered when speaking 

 of the Curds and of their probable ancestors (in part), 

 the Hittites. The dependence of both the areas on a 

 common centre has become evident, after the great dis- 

 covery of the treaty of peace of Boghaz-Keui, between 

 the Mitanni king called Mattiuaza and the Hittite king 

 Subbiluliuma, where among the gods invoked by the 

 first appear the well known Yedic names of Varuna, 

 Indra, etc. This confirms that the Aryan religion had 

 been elaborated in the far north ; from the north it had 

 been carried into the south of Asia, not by missionaries 

 but by such migratory waves as we have arranged in the 

 form of a systematic scheme. 



Chanda draws two conclusions from it. The first is a 

 highly justifiable conclusion : " There are strong eviden- 

 ces to show that in the sixteenth and the fifteenth cen- 

 turies B.C., in Syria and upper Mesopotamia, there were 

 several colonies of men of Aryan speech, some of whom 

 at least worshipped Vedic gods. "* Less justified is the 

 other conclusion that the Aryans have passed through 

 Syria and Mesopotamia, absorbing " a good deal of 

 Semitic blood," before they reached India. 2 We believe 

 instead that the Aryans reached Iran directly from the 

 north* and afterwards pursued two diverging paths, one 

 towards the west, and the other towards the east. The 



1 CHANDA (Ramaprasad), Ihe In-do-Aymn liaces, Part I, Eajshahi, 1910, p. 29 



Ibid, p- 33. 



:i From Airyana-Vaetjo, a subarctic region to the north of Sogdiana, with ten 

 months of winter (which explains the origin of the cult of fire), and two of summer, 

 but always in a better condition of habitability than at present : Cf. MAUNDER 

 (A. S. D.), Iranian Migration before History, " Scientia, " Vol. XIX, 1916, 11. XLVI-2. 



