The Vedic fathers of geology

GrotogicaL ANTIQUITY OF THE VEDAS. 5%

अधरानवातिरत्‌ ), त let the waters flow for the Brahman worshippers (4% ), for the first time, and before all ( THT ).

But, more than this, there is yet a further distinct statement that the rain was created and the showers were made ( atqara... aé ate R: V. TV. 26. 2) only for the sake of the Sacrifice loving mortals ( at& Aaa ), and these certainly were our Primitive Aryans, the ancestors of our Rig-Vedic Fore-fathers. And above all, as if to signify his special favour to the Saerifice-loving Aryans-our Prinutive ancestors—, and to make his own seal in token of approval, Indra had alsogiven land (ataazeta) to our Primitive Ancestors (आर्याय).

अहं भूमिमददामायायाहं बरं दाशुषे मर्त्याय । ( Rig-Veda, IV. 26. 2)

‘“ T have bestowed the earth upon the Arya,. and rain upon the man who brings oblation.”

And what land or region could this be, other than the one, where in company with, and. by the assistance of Soma, Indra ( who like Soma, the Reader should remember, was born in Aryavarta, vide ante pp. 41-42 ) had made thewaters of the renowned Seven Rivers of Arya-

arta flow for the sake of our Progenitor Manu (इन्द्रो अपो मनवे सचखतस्कः।... अरिणात्‌ सप्तसिन्धूच ...1. ए. 1४. 28. 1); भ्यः slaying the Vvitra-Serpent