"Tradition or myth… directly indicates that the Ailas entered India from the mid-Himalayan region."

“There was an outflow of people from India before the fifteenth century BC.”

“The next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country.”

“Indian tradition distinctly asserts that there was an Aila outflow of the Druhyus through the northwest into the countries beyond where they founded various kingdoms.”

“The arguments used to prove the advance of the Aryans from Afghanistan into the Punjab might simply be reversed.”

“Indian tradition knows nothing of any Aila or Aryan invasion of India from Afghanistan, nor of any gradual advance from thence eastwards.”

“One branch, headed by Uśīnara established several kingdoms on the eastern border of the Punjab his famous son Śivi originated the Śivis in Śivapura, and extending his conquests westwards occupying the whole of the Punjab except the northwestern corner.”