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In David Anthony’s pithy phrase, ‘The Rig Veda was a ritual canon, not a racial manifesto. If you sacrificed in the right way to the right gods, which required performing the great traditional prayers in the traditional language, you were an Aryan, otherwise you were not.’

— David W. Anthony Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)

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