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Main article: The Vedas are among the. The Samhitas date to roughly 1700–1100 BCE, and the 'circum-Vedic' texts, as well as the of the Samhitas, date to c. 1000-500 BCE, resulting in a, spanning the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, or the and the.
English translation of Holy Vedas - Sama Veda English translation by Ralph T.H. Griffith taken from http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sv.htm.
The Vedic period reaches its peak only after the composition of the mantra texts, with the establishment of the various all over Northern India which annotated the mantra with discussions of their meaning, and reaches its end in the age of and and the rise of the (archaeologically, ). Michael Witzel gives a time span of c.
Witzel makes special reference to the Near Eastern of the 14th century BCE, the only epigraphic record of Indo-Aryan contemporary to the Rigvedic period. He gives 150 BCE () as a for all Vedic Sanskrit literature, and 1200 BCE (the early ) as for the Atharvaveda. Transmission of texts in the Vedic period was by, preserved with precision with the help of elaborate. A literary tradition is traceable in post-Vedic times, after the rise of in the, perhaps earliest in the recension of the Yajurveda about the 1st century BCE; however oral tradition of transmission remained active. Witzel suggests the possibility of written Vedic texts towards the end of 1st millennium BCE.