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Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods
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2009
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Religious HistoryRelative Historical LayeringHistorical ArchaeologyBuddhismEarly Buddhist PeriodsLate VedicOrientalismEducationArchaeologyEast Asian LanguagesEarliest Buddhist TextsAnthropologyCultural HistoryYogaLanguage StudiesPrehistoryBuddhist Studies
Abstract The Late Vedic and earliest Buddhist texts are investigated to indicate their relative historical layering. Besides the texts themselves, their language, place names, archaeological and inherent historical background are brought to bear. These data and those on some historical contemporaries of the Buddha do not indicate a correlation with late Vedic personalities and texts. A certain period of time separates both corpora.