The Vedic fathers of geology

88 Tue Vepic FatHers or Gronoey.

Upanishad II. 1 ) ; or to the Mish (V. P.1. 4. 7, foreshadowed in the Shata Patha Brahmana I. 8.1.1 @6), or to the Tortoise (T. A, 1. 23.4; Sh. P. Br. VIL. 5.1.5), or to the Boar (Sh. P. Br. XIV. 1.2.11), The Man-ZLion (M. Bh. XII. 339-103,104 ), the Dwarf-Wdman or Man ( Agni. P. IV. 7), &e., as having appeared on Earth in various forms and made this creation, only indicates that after the Earth had cooled down and life appeared thereon, the various life-types of the kind, wiz. the lowly weeds represented by the Lotus or the Herbs, the aquatic beings represented by the ish, the reptiles represented by the Tortoise, the mammalia represented by the Boar, the intermediate order between beast and man represented by the J/anLion, or according to the Western Geologists and Scientists by the Ape, and finally the man represented by the Dwart-Incarnation or Wamanthe crowning piece of creation—had made their appearance on Earth, in the evolution and progressive gradation of vitality, from time to time, and in geological sequence.

Now, with reference to the type of the ManLion, alluded to before and supposed by our Vedic as well as Pauranic geologists to be the precursor of Man-kind, and probably as a connecting link between the brute intellagence and