Vedic period

literature are discernible: the Vedic period, approximately 1500–200 BC; and, somewhat overlapping it, the classical period, approximately 500 BC–AD 1000

https://books.google.com/books?id=b8urRsuUJ9oC  ^ Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1898). Vedic Mythology. Motilal Banarsidass (1996 Reprint). pp. 167–169. ISBN 978-81-208-1113-3

id=Vu95WgeUBfEC&pg=PA199  ^ For use of the term śiva as an epithet for other Vedic deities, see: Chakravarti, p. 28. ^ Chakravarti 1986, pp. 21–22. ^ Chakravarti

^ a b c Krishan Kant Bhardwaj (2017-04-20). The Essence of Vedic Astrology: Divine Light To Illuminate The Path of Life. Educreation Publishing

word during the Indo-Iranian period." (p.449) "The origin of the concept of dharman rests in its formation. It is a Vedic, rather than an Indo-Iranian