and went on steadily till they reached the southernmost extremity of the Peninsula in or sometime before fourth century B.C. It is believed that their southern movement began during the period of Brahmana literature, about 1000 B.C. Gradually the Aryans moved towards South India. Of the new kingdoms in the east, the most important were Kurus, Panchalas, Kasis, Kosalas and Videhas. The spread of Aryans over the whole of India completed before 400 B.C. During the period represented by Later Samhitas the Aryans covered the whole of Northern India, from the Himalayas to the Vindhyas. All these later Vedic texts were compiled in the Upper Gangetic basin in 1000-600 B.C. This age witnessed the composition of three later Veda Samhitas namely, the Samveda Samhita, the Yajurveda Samhita, the Atharvaveda Samhita as well as Brahmanas and the Upanishads of all the four Vedas and later on the two great epics-the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The period that followed Rig Vedic Age is known as Later Vedic Age.
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