Edward Washburn Hopkins

The Punjab is thus omitted altogether from the list. The most western locality is the place where the Sarasouti disappears in the north-west, and the Arabian Sea, west of the southern line of the Vindhyas.

[there are a great many] evidences of special rapport between viii and v.

the intermediate character of v, between viii and the other family books.

We must, I think, suppose that the Avesta and RV. viii. are younger than RV. ii.-vii.; or else that the poets of viii. were geographically nearer to the Avestan people, and so took from them certain words, which may or may not have been …

viii joins the later Avesta to post-Rik literature and the other General Books.

viii with the General Books and post-Rik literature agrees with Avestan as against the early family books.