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Rg-veda

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dAnu and danAyu

the shatapatha brAhmaNa version of the vR^itra mytheme +++(9.5)+++ … preserves a memory of the old IE or Aryan homeland. dAnu and danAyu: where on the map you might find rivers with related names in the vicinity.

MT

Objection

And danu as a river is not mentioned either.

Inner Asia Mountain Corridor

फ॒ल्गु॒नी॒-पू॒र्ण॒-मा॒से दी᳚ख्षेरन् ।
मुख॒व्ँ वा ए॒तत् ,[28] सव्ँवथ्स॒रस्य॒ यत् फ॑ल्गुनीपूर्णमा॒सः ।
मु॒ख॒त ए॒व स॑व्ँवथ्स॒रम् आ॒रभ्य॑ दीख्षन्ते ।
तस्यैकै॒व नि॒र्या+++(=निकृष्टा प्राप्तिः)+++ यथ् साम्मे᳚घ्ये विषू॒वान्थ्+++(=मध्यदिनं [गवामयन-संवत्सरस्य], विष्वञ्चि नाना गच्छतीति अहानि)+++ स॒म्पद्य॑ते +++(Inner Asia Mountain Corridor इत्यत्र, यत्रार्याः प्रायेणावर्तन्त)+++ ।

तैत्तिरीय-संहिता 7.4

Mujavat

MuzhTagh Ata, near Tajikistan

तेना॑व॒सेन॑ प॒रो मूज॑व॒तो ऽती॒ह्य्,
अव॑तत-धन्वा॒ पिना॑क-हस्त॒ᳵ कृत्ति॑वासाः ॥
TS 1.8.6

With it for food, do thou go away beyond the Mujavants.With unstrung bow, thy club in thy hand, clad in skins.

the Ṛgveda mentions the mountain Mūjavant (“Having Mūja”), from where the best soma comes. A Muža tribe is also found in the Avesta in an eastern area that has Vedic-like names. The name seems to survive as the impressive 7,549-meter-high Muzh Tagh Ata Mountain in the Kirghiz and Sariqoli (Saka) lands of southwestern Xinjiang.

M Witzel

Objections

Mujavant is found only from eighth mandala of RV where we find the arya lands of nwfp etc being mentioned. Not found in earlier books. It is no real memory of tajikistan. Rather it talks about arya expansion there

आक्रमणस्मृतिः

prajā́ dakṣiṇā́ ‘bhi-jáyantīr yanti (MS 4.7.9)
“their descendants go southward, conquering.”

Objections

Descendants going south - could refer to arya movement into central and southern India. Rather than from northern cold lands