Nineteenth century CE Chronology of Vārṣāgira War By Nash Siddiqui
Someone just sent me a thread of tweets on the Vārṣāgira battle by a person named Nash Siddiqui (whose name I have heard many times, but know little or nothing about his claims and views):
Saturday, 9 May 2020 The Vārṣāgira Battle in
the Rigveda Shrikant G. Talageri talageri.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-va
I will not go into all the tweets
in this thread, but only the relevant claim made by him in his tweet dated 11
May 2025 11.44 PM, on the subject of the chronology of the Vārṣāgira battle:
“*Mahabharat
War 950 BCE *Dashrajanya War 1250 BCE”, which he refers to in this present
thread. He seems to place the Vārṣāgira battle between 1250 BCE and 950 BCE.
It appears this writer is still living in the old days where the AIT is dated at 1500 BCE and all other Rigvedic events automatically dated subsequent to that date! No, he is not unique in this respect: he is part of a massive army of writers who are still living in the late nineteenth century (CE/AD) before the discovery of the Mitanni inscriptions.
As I have repeatedly shown (I am too tired of repeating
myself to even bother to give the URLs of the various articles where I have
dealt with the chronology of the Mitanni data), the vocabulary of
the Mitanni data shows that the ancestors (yes, the ancestors:
not the actual Mitanni kings recorded in the West Asian
inscriptions of 1500-1400 BCE, but their far-off
ancestors who went out from India) left India during the period of
composition of the New Rigveda.
The Rigveda is divided into two parts: the Old Rigveda consisting of the Old Hymns in Books 6,3,7,4,2 of the Rigveda, and the New Rigveda consisting of the New Hymns in Books 5,1,8,9,10 of the Rigveda. The two parts stand centuries apart from each other, as can be seen in the huge chronological gulf between their vocabularies:
https://talageri.blogspot.com/2022/08/final-version-of-chronological-gulf.html
The “Dashrajanya War” took place in the period of the Old Rigveda, and the Vārṣāgira battle took place later, but still well before the period of the New Rigveda.
If the “Dashrajanya War” took place in 1250 BCE, the Mitanni kingdom was already fully in place in Syria-Iraq by that time (or perhaps even in a state of decline at the time of this war). Which means the far-off ancestors of the Mitanni who went out from India had already left India long before even the “Dashrajanya War”, somewhere in the earlier part of the Old Rigveda. So how did they, some time long before 1500 BCE, take with them a new vocabulary which, (according to this man’s chronology) could only have come into existence long after 1250 BCE?
I can only plead with these outdated scholars to move ahead from the late nineteenth century (CE/AD) in their knowledge of the state of art of the data concerning the Aryan debate.
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