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1. VEDIC RELIGION
CHAPTER 1
THE VEDIC RELIGION
In general Vedic religion today referrs to a bewildering variety of religious spectrum.
• the historical Vedic religion (practices dating to the Vedic
period) Shrauta, surviving conservative traditions within Hinduism
Vedanta (Upanishadic) • Hinduism with worship of any god • Any religion except those of semitic origin
Vedic Religion as Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
"Hittite is the oldest recorded Indo-European language, but it had remained completely unknown during the period in which Indo-European linguistics developed because its records are on clay tablets that were excavated only at the end of the 19th century. Even then, it was not identified as Indo-European until 1915, when Bedrich Hrozný made the discovery through his reading of tablets that had been brought to Vienna from the Istanbul Museum." http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/Irc/eieol/hitol-O-R.html Hittite On Line, Series Introduction, Winfred P Lehman and Jonathan Slocum.
