imperial age (at which time there was a north-western military
retrogression), and, from the Vedic point of view, as late as the end
of the Brahmanic period, in the time of the Upanishads, the northwest
seems still to have been familiarly known.[24]

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: We take this opportunity of stating that by the
religions of the Aryan Hindus we mean the religions of a
people who, undoubtedly, were full-blooded Aryans at first,
however much their blood may have been diluted later by
un-Aryan admixture. Till the time of Buddhism the religious
literature is fairly Aryan. In the period of "Hinduism"
neither people nor religion can claim to be quite Aryan.]

[Footnote 2: If, as thinks Schrader, the Aryans' original
seat was on the Volga, then one must imagine the
Indo-Iranians to have kept together in a south-eastern
emigration.]

[Footnote 3: That is to say, frequent reference is made to
'five tribes.' Some scholars deny that the tribes are Aryan
alone, and claim that 'five,' like seven, means 'many.']

[Footnote 4: RV. III. 33. 11; 53. 12. Zimmer, _Altindisches
Leben_, p. 160, incorrectly identifies _viç_ with tribus
(Leist, _Rechtsgeschichte_, p. 105).]