The Vedic fathers of geology

CHAPTER IV.

Geological Researches of the East and the West compared.

In the present chapter, 1 introduce a few important facts to enable the Reader to get a view of the other side of the shield, and to see for himself how the Vedic Rishis were immeasurably in advance of the times, and had anticipated the Western geologists and scientists, in the deep researches they had made even at that distant date, not to say in the remotest period of time, when all the other ancient nations, including even the Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the Assyrians, were still in the dark.

For, says Thornton in his History of India, “ Ere yet the pyramids looked down upon the valley of the Nile—when Greece and Ttaly those cradles of modern Civilization, housed only the tenants of the wilderness,India was the seat of wealth and grandeur.”

[ had, in the second chapter (pp. 35 @ 83)

ade passing reference to the A’ryan cradle in Aryayarta from the geological point of yiew; anc shown therein, that the origin of life was in