The year is 1550 BCE. The Eurasian steppe is in motion. For centuries, the pastoralist Indo-Aryan tribes have been migrating southward through the passes of the Hindu Kush, driven by shifting climates and the promise of the fertile plains of the subcontinent. They bring with them the defining super-weapon of the late Bronze Age: the spoke-wheeled war chariot.
>>20538
>inb4 context
The concept of a military conflict between invading Aryans and the Harappans was first popularized in the 1940s by British archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Wheeler famously declared that the Vedic god Indra 'stands accused' of the destruction of the Indus Valley Civilization [1]. This 'Aryan Invasion Theory' (AIT) suggested that nomadic, chariot-riding Indo-Aryan tribes from Central Asia overran the sophisticated urban centers of the Harappans around 1500 BCE. The theory was based on a specific reading of the Rigveda, which describes battles between the Aryans and the 'Dasyus' or 'Dasas,' groups often identified by early scholars as the inhabitants of the Indus Valley.
>>20538
There is no such recorded war happening ever.
There is no archeological evidence
There is no religious evidence
Because IVC were the Aryans and Steppe pastroalists entered long after them
>>20543
The Rigveda, the oldest of the scriptures, contains numerous references to 'Purandara,' a title for the god Indra meaning 'Destroyer of Forts' . According to the traditional invasion hypothesis, these 'forts' (purs) referred to the fortified citadels of Harappan cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. The texts describe a series of battles where the Aryans used superior technology, such as the horse-drawn spoke-wheeled chariot and bronze weaponry, to defeat local populations who were depicted as culturally and physically distinct. However, modern linguists argue that these descriptions may be metaphorical or refer to later conflicts in different geographic contexts.
>The first clashes were swift and merciless. The lowland folk dark-haired cultivators and traders had never seen horses ridden to war or wheels that flew. Their bronze axes and long spears were formidable in close press, but against the chariot charge they broke like monsoon clouds. A single sweep of thirty chariots could shatter a war-band of three hundred, arrows falling like hail while javelins punched through reed shields. Yet not all encounters ended in slaughter. Many villages offered tribute of grain and daughters some chieftains married their sons to the daughters of local headmen, weaving new blood into the clans.
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>>20570
>>20593
Yjk OP is a shitskin manlet larping. Btw IVC declined way before Aryan invasions. IVC individuals were the tallest and physically strongest in the ancient world, look it up. their diet was one of the most optimal.
>>20570
>By the time the rains came, the vanguard had reached the sapta-sindhava, the Land of Seven Rivers. There, beneath vast skies, they kindled the sacred fire on new altars. The sages sang the first verses of what would one day be remembered as the Rigveda:
"Indra, wielder of the vajra,
Destroyer of forts, slayer of Vitara,
Lead us across the rivers,
Give us the broad lands of the Dasas..."
>>20570
apart from ignoring your AI slop
why would a group of people that migrate from some place to another, not make a single reference to their old place while going through so much trouble to compose and create a system that ensures memorization over thousands of years
the reason is because Aryans never migrated into India, they started in India
>>20684
>AI Slop
It's Wikipedia article nigger
The reason I feel like there are no description of the central asia in thier books because before being written rigveda was like a oral tradition which were composed in late late 2nd millennium BCE with the Rigveda’s core hymns likely in the 1500-1200 BC range
ANd first reason is they started writing vedas after arriving at subcontinent in 1500BCE and there were no written vedas before that and
they're not historical chronicles or migration diaries they are religious poetry, hymns to deities, rituals, cosmology, and praise of patrons/tribes focused on the present landscape of northwest India/Punjab and its rivers.
>>20713
The rig veda is NOT a book you idiot
it IS based on oral memorization already
so by oyur logic, if there was a oral traidtion they could have simply included it in the Rig Veda, which btw contains a lot of "junk" infromation
if you knew what the Vedas were, how they are memorized etc. you would realize how wrong you rae
>>20719
Later Vedic and post-Vedic texts do contain hints of movement. The Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (a later text) describes a split - Ayu going east (to Kuru-Panchala, Kasi-Videha) and others staying west (Gandhari, Parsu/Persians, Aratta).
Scholars like Michael Witzel interpret this as a memory of westward/eastward branches from a northwestern area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana_Shrauta_Sutrahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana_Shrauta_Sutra
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BSS 18:44 translation controversy
>>20723
So you are shifting the goal post after realizing you are clueless
There are no Vedic texts btw Scripture and writing was not used in Hinduism at all until very late CE
Everything is chanted, that is also the reason why Sanskrit was invented, to memorize and formalize Hindu chants
Anyway, anybody who knows Sanskrit and knows what the Vedas are realizes how nonsensical it would be for a group that can create the Vedas to not include their original "birth place"
In fact, we know that they included their original birth place - it is simply the Indian location within the Vedas.
So yes, you are wrong, clueless and you will keep coping
>>20719
I have stronger evidence supporting Indo-Aryan migration theory, also expecting explicit homeland references and historical data in a text made for hymns and rituals is anachronistic.
>>20730
you have 0 evidence supporting the AIT
considering hindus cremate their dead bodies
what you do have is a massive selection bias towards the steppe , because it makes no sense for steppe cultures to cremate their dead (you have a lot of space and no time)
as oppoesd to agricultural societies where you have little space (high population desnity) and comparatively much time
