The second point of view is that of the Akkadists.  It is claimed by the late Lacouperie, by Hewitt, and by other well-known writers that a primitive race overran India, China, and the rest of the world, leaving behind it traces of advanced religious ideas and other marks of a higher civilization.  Such a cult may have existed, but in so far as this theory rests, as in a marked degree it does rest, on etymology, the results are worthless.  These scholars identify Gandharva with Gan-Eden, K[=a]ci (Benares) with the land of the sons of Kush; Gautama with Chinese (’Akkadian’) gut, ‘a bull,’ etc.  All this is as fruitful of unwisdom as was the guess-work of European savants two centuries ago.  We know that the Dasyus had some religion and some civilization.  Of what sort was their barbaric cult, whether Finnish (also ’Akkadian’)[36] or aboriginal with themselves, really makes but little difference, so far as the interpretation of Aryanism is concerned; for what the Aryans got from the wild tribes of that day is insignificant if established as existent at all.  A few legends, the Deluge and the Cosmic Tree, are claimed as Akkadian, but it is remarkable that one may grant all that the Akkadian scholars claim, and still deny that Aryan belief has been essentially affected by it.[37] The Akkadian theory will please them that cannot reconcile the Rig Veda with their theory of Brahmanic influence, but the fault lies with the theory.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  The Dasyus, heathen, or pagans, are by no means a wholly uncivilized mass to the poets of the Rig Veda.  They have wealth, build forts, and are recognized as living in towns or forts.  We learn little about them in Brahmanic literature, except that they bury their dead and with them their trinkets.  Their graves and dolmen gray-stones are still found.]

[Footnote 2:  Some scholars think that the Dravidians entered from the Northwest later than the Kolarians, and, pushing them to either side of the peninsula, descended through them to the South.  The fact that some Kolarian tribes closely related by language are separated (to East and West) by hundreds of miles, and have lost all remembrance of their former union, favors this view of a Dravidian wedge splitting and passing through the Kolarian mass.  But all here is guess-work.  The Dravidians may have been pushed on by Kolarians that entered later, while the latter may have been split by the Aryan invasion; and this seems to us more probable because the other theory does not explain why the Kolarians did not go South instead of taking to the hills of the East and West.]

[Footnote 3:  The whole list of these tribes as given by Cust, Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies, is as follows:  The Kolarians include the Sunth[=a]ls, Mund[=a]ri Koles (Koches), Kh[=a]rians, Juangs,