The Vedic fathers of geology

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The Vedic Texts and Authorities.

(ज) तस्मात्तपनाद्धूमोऽनाUe |... SACHA I... उ्यातिरजायत ।..-तद- | अररिव समहन्यत । (तै. ना. २.२. ९.२).

(इ) तद्ररिदनाभिनन्‌ ।

(तेः नाः २. २.९. २.). |

(ते. च २.२ ९.३). | | (ङ) यदष्स्ववापद्त सा पथिः | ST . | & pe ॥ | (तं. ज्ा- २.२.२९. ४). | (उ) तां ( प्रथिवीं प्रजाधातिः) | यकराभिग्डृहत्‌ । (a. AT. ९.१. ३.९).

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Tne Vepre Faruers oF Grorocy.

English “Whe vatielagant | Walsh ton. thereof,

(Taitt. Br. II. 2. 9. 1). WV. B, I may here gratefully note, that the translation of the original text has been borrowed from Muir’s Original Sanskrit

Texts. Vol I. 2. 28. Second Edition, ( Lhe

Author )

(0) ‘From that fervour, smoke was produced, ० (28 also ) fire, ...light, ...and blaze, ....It then became condensed like a cloud.”

(Taitt. Br. IT. 2. 9. 2)

(c) “It ( afterwards ) clove its bladder, and that became the sea” ( that is, the Dhermal Ocean ) (Paitt. Br. IT. 2, 9, 2/3).

(dq) “That which fell into the waters became the Harth”’, (viz. Prajapati’s crystal like tears),

( Paitt, Br 11.2.9. 4), And Prajapati

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| “strengthened her ( the | Earth ) with gravel,”

( Taitt, Br T.1.3,5) vide. Muir's O. 8. ‘TE.

I, 28, 29, 53. 2nd Bad

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Now, it would not be out of place here to remind the Reader, that all ideas of our Primitive

ancestors

and Ancient fore-fathers, whether