The Vedic fathers of geology

152 Tue Vepic Fatuers or Gronoey.

“ Traversing Persia, Arabia, Higypt, and even forcing their way to the cold and cloudy North, far from the sunny soil of their birth ; invain they may forget their point of departure, their skin may remain brown, or become white from contact with snows of the West......” (La Bible Dans L’ Ind. pp. VII, VIM. Edition 1870 )

In the same way, Count Bjornstjerna also says, “It is there (in A’rydvarta) we must seek not only for the cradle of the Brahmin religion, but for the cradle of the high civilization of the Hindus, which gradually extended itself in the West to Ethiopia, to Egypt, to Phrenicia ; in the East to Siam, to China, and to Japan; in the South to Ceylon, to Jaya, and to Sumatra ; in the North to Persia, to Caldza, and to Colchis, whence it came to Greece and to Rome, and at length to the remote abode of the Hyperboreans.” (Theogony of the Hindus. p. 168).

Last but not least, Mr. Pococke writes follows :—“ The mighty human tide that passed the barrier of the Punjab, rolled onward towards its destined channel in Europe and in Asia, to fulfil its beneficent office in the moral fertilization of the world”. (India in Greece.

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