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Answer: The Vedic religion was the religion of some of the Vedic Indo-Aryan tribes, the aryas,[17][18][b] who migrated into the Indus River valley region of the Indian subcontinent.[3][c] The Vedic religion, and subsequent Brahmanism center on the myths and ritual ideologies of the Vedas, as distinguished from Agamic, Tantric and sectarian forms of Indian religion, which take recourse to the authority of non-Vedic textual sources.[3] The Vedic religion is described in the Vedas and associated voluminous Vedic literature including the early Upanishads, preserved into the modern times by the different priestly schools.[20][3] It existed in the western Ganges plain in the early Vedic period from c. 1500–1100 BCE,[21][d] and developed into Brahmanism in the late Vedic period (1100–500 BCE).[12][24] The eastern Ganges-plain was dominated by another Indo-Aryan complex, which rejected the later Brahmanical ideology, and gave rise to Jainism and Buddhism, and the Mauryan Empire.[1][2]
The Indo-Aryans were speakers of a branch of the Indo-European language family, which originated in the Sintashta culture and further developed into the Andronovo culture, which in turn developed out of the Kurgan culture of the Central Asian steppes.[25][c][e] The commonly proposed period of earlier Vedic age is dated back to 2nd millennium BCE.[46]