Now the Vedas and these epic poems were originally orally transmitted, but then later, either in the late Vedic period or after the Vedic period, was when they were actually written down. And just so you have some context here, Sanskrit is considered one of the oldest Indo-European languages we have. And I'll talk more about Indo-European languages in a little bit, because it turns out that Sanskrit is related to European languages, like Greek and Latin, and even Germanic languages. And Sanskrit's one of the oldest alongside Mycenaean Greek and the Hittite language. And those were all contemporary civilizations of around this period right over here, in the second millennium BCE. And just so you have context, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, his life was in one of these Vedic kingdoms in the northeast of India. Now, as I mentioned, the Vedas laid the foundation for much of what we consider to be modern-day India.