 The Mahabharata War is dated at 3139 BCE, while various dynasties are dated more than a millennium earlier, Gautama Buddha is dated at 1894-1814 BCE, and Jagadguru Shankaracharya at 509-477 BCE.These ideas claim a continuous cultural evolution of India, denying a discontinuity between the Harappan and Vedic periods.According to Kak,
The idea of "Indigenous Aryanism" fits into traditional Hindu ideas of religious history, namely that Hinduism has timeless origins, with the Vedic Aryans inhabiting India since ancient times.