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"According to the historian Romila Thapar, the Sanskrit used to write the Rigveda is closer in comparison to Avesta, the language of East Iran in which the Zoroastrian text named for the language is written. This suggests that the Rigveda is much younger than the archaic Hittite-Mittani treaty, a treaty between the Suppiluliuma and Shattiwaza people between 1425-1275 BCE. Unfortunately, historians David Frawley and Georg Fuerstein pointed out that the Rigveda mentions the Saraswati – a river that dried before 1900 BCE. Satellite studies have shown that the Saraswati river actually dried up completely by 1750 BCE, but at that time there was already a desert in that region of Afghanistan. The Rigveda does not mention a desert – in fact one is not mentioned until the Brahmana books 500-1000 years later – so the date for the Rigveda must be before 1750 BCE. Despite the various arguments, the generally accepted date is 1900 BCE. "


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