WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Vedas: Aryan beliefs, rituals, and daily life are described in the four Vedas. The Vedas, written in Sanskrit, are a collection of poems and sacred hymns, composed in about 1500 BCE. Veda means knowledge.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term Aryan language appears in works published in the 19th century and 20th century to mean very old Indo-European languages: The Vedic Sanskrit language. The Old Persian language.

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.