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( 80 ) Moller has established similarity between Aryan and Semitic languages. If the Aryans had contacts with the people of central Russia and Arabia; then, naturally, South Russia may rightly claim to be the original Aryan Home,
The evidence of linguistic palæontology so masterly evolved by Schrader also points to South Russia as the original Aryan Home.
Maxmuller, Cuno and Taylor, the chief propounders Central Asia of the central Asia home theory, advance Home Theory mainly three arguments. Firstly, that our knowledge about the Aryan is mainly derived from the Vedic literature. The common ancestors of the Irāniāns and the Vedic Indians must, therefore, have lived together for a long time in a common habitat. Secondly, that these Aryans were pastoral nomads and domesticated cattle. Hence, their habitat must have been a vast stretch of steppy lands. Thirdly, that they mention winter and coldness in a prominent manner. This shows that they inhabited a colder region. Central Asia answers all these conditions; hence it was concluded that Central Asia was the original home of the undivided Aryans, Maxmuller gave support to this theory.
P. Giles propounded the theory that the Aryans, a Central Europe settled people, lived peacefully in the regions Home Theory now kuown as Hungary, Austria and Bohemia based on the evidence of flora and fauna.
Several early European and Indian scholars believed Sapta-Sindhu that Sapta-Sindhu was the original Aryan Home Theory Home. European scholars and majority of Indian scholars have abandoned this theory but a few Indian Scholars still cling to it. Their main arguments are :
1. Vedic Aryans do not have any memory of their
foreign original home,
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