The Iranians may have been an offshoot from India. - Frederick Eden Pargiter

[The fact that there are Indo-European languages outside India: Pargiter clearly attributes the presence of these languages to the] Aila outflow of the Druhyus through the northwest into the countries beyond where they founded various kingdoms.

"The Druhyus occupied the Punjab, and Mandhātṛ of Ayodhya had a long war with the Druhyu king Aruddha or Aṅgāra and killed him" (PARGITER 1962:167).

The next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country.