The Vedic fathers of geology

Episope oF THE GuAcIaL Periop. 139

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यस्येमे हिमवन्तो महित्वा -..... ATE: | (ऋ० वे ० १०-१२१-४. ) गिरयस्ते पर्वता हिसवन्तः ... -. i (अ० वे° १२१-१९. )

This Hindlaya Mountain, before we colonised the Arctic and other regions, we used to behold in the North, while yet we were lying in our cradle of the Seven Rivers ( सप्तसिंधवः ); धात्‌ this had saved us and given us shelter, when we were at the point of being buried beneath the thick sheets of Ice and Snow, that covered the Arctic tracts and the higher Northern latitudes in the Glacial Period.

I may here state, that the same story of the deluge, with a few variations and difference of names, appears in the mythologies of other Aryan nations ; and as it bears great resemblance to the Deluge story of Manu, described in the Shatapatha Brahmana, from which it seems to have apparently been borrowed by others, I venture to give the following extract from the History of Greece for the sake of comparison :-—

“ The enormous iniquity with which earth was contaminated—as Apollodorus says, by the then existing brazen race, or as others say, by the fifty monstrous sons of Lykaon—provoked Zeus to send a general deluge. An unremitting and terrible rain laid the whole of Greece under