The Vedas and The Upanishads
Around 2000 B.C., scholars believe, groups of Indo-Europeanspeaking peoples calling themselves arya, or noble, began to enter the Indian subcontinent through the Hindu Kush. There, in the Indus river valley, they found a civilization already a thousand years old, thriving and advanced in technology and trade. From the fusion of these two cultures, the Aryan …