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.
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Introduction: The Problem 287 Materials 288 Language 291 Archaeological, Social and Political Data 296 Archaeology and Texts 296 Place Names 298 Political Situation 299 Herodotus' Ascetics 302 The Political Situation 303 Conclusions 310
