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We must, I think, suppose that the Avesta and RV. viii. are younger…
Quote byEdward Washburn Hopkins · 1857–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prāgāthikāni, 1896, 80-81. quoted in Quoted in Talageri, S. G. (2010). The Rigveda and the Avesta. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan..
English (original)
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 old with their Iranian users, but were not received into the body of Vedic literature until a time posterior to the composition of ii.-vii.
— Edward Washburn Hopkins
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[there are a great many] evidences of special rapport between viii and v.
viii joins the later Avesta to post-Rik literature and the other General Books.
the intermediate character of v, between viii and the other family books.
viii with the General Books and post-Rik literature agrees with Avestan as against the early family books.
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