But then a strong objection to such changes arrived from a group of U.S. scholars, led by Michael Witzel, the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University.
Michael Witzel believes that the city's name is of Indo-Aryan origin and is recorded in the Vedas .
Michael Witzel (born 1943), Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University
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