HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Indian
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Vedic
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Sanskirt
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Harapan
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Rig Veda was composed in Sanskrit and was taught by Brahmins to their disciples.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Aryans spoke in Sanskrit. At first, this was just a spoken language, but over time, scribes developed a way to write it down. Aryan priests wrote down those songs, poems, and hymns in a collection of texts called the Vedas.
Detailed explanation-3: -An ancient Indo-European language, Sanskrit is widely believed to have been introduced to the Indian subcontinent by outsiders who called themselves “Aryans” (or noble ones) and who progressively migrated to the Indian subcontinent from the northwest starting around 2000 BCE.
Detailed explanation-4: -Modern Indo-Aryan languages descend from Old Indo-Aryan languages such as early Vedic Sanskrit, through Middle Indo-Aryan languages (or Prakrits).
Detailed explanation-5: -Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.