. Rig Vedic Culture Rig Vedic Samhita is the earliest text that relates to the Early Vedic period. The Early Vedic culture is placed between BCE and BCE. The political, social and economic aspects of life of this period are reflected in many hymns.
Geography In the Indian subcontinent, the early Aryans lived in the area of eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, Punjab and fringes of Western Uttar Pradesh. Dasas and Dasyus The Rig Vedas speak about not only the Aryans, but also about the non-Aryan people, whom the Aryans encountered in India. When the Rig Vedic people moved into India they came into conflict with people whom they referred to as Dasyus or Dasas. Evidently the Aryans differentiated themselves from the dark native people who had different cultural practices, and sought to maintain their distinction.
with India and West Asia and Europe. One of the accepted areas of the Aryan home is Eastern Europe-Central Asia, north of the Black Sea. The Bactria-Margina Archaeological Complex is closely related to Aryan culture dated to BCE– BCE. References to the names of Indo-Europeans languages are found in an inscription dated to BCE discovered in modern Iraq.
Anatolian inscriptions of - BCE and Kassite inscriptions of BCE (Iraq) and Mittani inscriptions of BCE (Syria), Bhogaz Goi inscriptions referring to names similar to the Vedic gods ( BCE) have the common features of the Indo-European languages, but no such inscriptions are found in India. The term asva and several other terms in Rig Veda have common roots in various Indo- Aryan languages. In the Rig Veda , the term asva (horse) occurs times and vrishabha (bull) times. Tiger and rhinoceros, which are tropical animals, are not mentioned in the Rig Veda .
There is no trace of the urban way of life in the Rig Veda . Hence, the identity of Aryans is not correlated with the Harappan culture, where there is no evidence for horse. Nowadays, DNA studies are also used for understanding ancient XI History - Lesson - - Early India: The Chalcolithic,