Jan Gonda
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Biography
"For Gonda, “chariot drives and other races have often the function of regenerating the productive forces in nature,” while the gods “are described as driving swift horses [10.92.6 ...,] as approaching the sacrificers in their chariots [1.84.18, 7.2.5]” (Gonda 1965: 72, 98)."
"[The Aryan invasion] is not reflected in the [Rig-Vedic] hymns."