For more than thirty years Asko Parpola (1983, 1988, 2015 inter alia) has designed a detailed reconstruction of the Indo-Iranian migrations into India, based on extensive archaeological data and his ideas —speculative, but suggestive and convincing in a large degree (Jamison 2004)— on a possible historical stratigraphy of the ṛgvedic religion. The Parpola’s proposal includes the presence in Vedic India of an ancient migration layer of specifically Iranian Dāsas, responsible for the inclusion of the cult of the asura Varuṇa in the ṛgvedic religion. At the other chronological end, E. Pirart (1995, 2012) has studied the interaction of possible Persian groups or individuals with the Vedic tribes during the Ṛg-Veda redaction’s period. In this paper, it will be analyzed in what extent the Vedic linguistic data (vocabulary, Bartholomae’s law, morphological variability, Onomastics, and other identifiable isoglosses) support the presence of “Iranians” —of Indo-Iranian population with specific Iranian isogloses in their language, in any chronological strata—; attention will also be paid to the etymology and dissyllabicity of Vedic dā́sa (Bailey 1959, Vine 1990, Lubotsky 1995).
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