The Vedic fathers of geology

Toe QuATERNARY ERA. 117

difficult to give a connected whole; nor is it a hopeless task to get a proper view of the Vedic studies in Geology.

For, from the very brief summary and extremely synoptical view, obtained from the rather contused, disorderly, and stray utterances of our Vedic and Puranic ancestors, it seems obvious that during successive periods of our Planet’s history, different life-types, as also sroups of plants and animals, appeared on the Earth. That the dominant types of each succeeding Epoch belonged to higher organisation and still more complex structure. That these attained wonderful development. And that they _also characterised the area by their numbers and variety of form. For instance, the Paleozoic was the period of flora and fauna, e. g. herbs, fishes, &e. (vide pp. 109 @113). While Mesozoic was “the Age of Reptiles.” And Cainozoie or Tertiary was “the Age of Mammals”. (Vide the Student’s Lyell. Edited by Professor John W. Judd. 1896. p. 447 ; and above pp. 114, 116 )

The aforesaid statements, therefore, I think will bring mto prominent relief the evolution and the transformation of rocks from their very commencement to the Quaternary period, as found and conceived by the Vedic Rishis and our hoary fore-fathers, while the quotations indicat-