According to archeological traces, Āryan people entered India at about the time of decline of the
Indus civilization (about 1600 B.C.) they were probably barbarian invaders, who conquered the Indus
people and destroyed their cities. These Āryans were nomadic herdsmen, who spoke in an early form
of Sanskrit, called Vedic after the earliest extant Indian texts (the Veda) which can at present be
read. The earliest of these Vedic texts of the Āryans were perhaps composed two or three centuries
