242 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
period. It cannot, therefore, be asserted that the form of the 
Brahmi o 1500 B.C. must have been decidedly different from 
its form 500 B.C. In fact, it was precisely in centuries prior 
suddenly emerges in a variety of forms in the Third or‘ burnt’ 
City.'_ The question, therefore, arises: What is the link con- 
necting ‘Troy’ of such an early age with the Vedic religion 
and its concomitant, the omkara 2 Fortunately, Professor 
Winckler’s discoveries at Boghaz Kuei have already supplied 
the link. It is now positively known that about 1400 B.C. kings 
with Indo-Aryan names and worshipping Vedic gods were rul- 
ing in the region of Mitanni.? The names Sutarna, Dushratta, 
of Sutarna I, who was also queen of Amenophis III of Egypt 
(c. 1400 B.C.), with the name Guruksepa® — borne, according 
goes to show that there was intimate intercommuniecation at 
that period among the different peoples inhabiting Asia Minor, 
Egypt and the Aegean islands, so that the Vedic religion 
obtaining in Mitanni had any opportunities for circulation 
abroad. Earlier still, Mitanni had been the cent 
by a stream of thought represented by the earlier Upanishads. 
S$ assumes, like the sixth cen- 
nee B.C., a special importance from the standpoint of world- 
istory. 
SUPPLEMENTARY Nore. 
Since this paper was written, the July ( 1920) number of 
the J.R.A.S. ‘has reached Calcutta. The number contains 
! Wilson, op. cit., p. 810. : 
°C. He W. Joline: Ancient Assyria (Cambridge, 1912), p. 54, 
J b Age, p. 9. 
* The Puranas place the war 1015 or 1050 years before Mahapadma 
mse crowned, according to my calculations based on Puranic data, 
