The Vedic fathers of geology

62 Tsu Vepic Fatruers or GEOLOGY.

victorious arms, all over the globe. Indra, accordingly appears, in right earnest, to have been supplicated as under, in the following verse:

अप प्राच इन्द्रं विश्वाँ अमित्रानपापाचो अभिभूत नुदस्व । अपोदीचो BAT INIT च उरौ यथा तव शर्मन्मदेम ॥ १ ॥ ( Rig-Veda. X. 131.1)

“ Drive all our enemies away, O Indra, the western, mighty Conqueror, and the eastern.

Hero, drive off our northern foes and southern, that we in thy wide shelter may be joytul.” ( Griffith )

Thus, impelled by a new spirit of adventure and conquests abroad, our ancestors of yore had left their Mother-land-Aryavarta and crossed the Hindu-Kusha, and after traversing the vast Asiatic Plateaux had gone even as far as the Arctic regions; where they had brought under their sway extensive tracts, which having been colonised by them, they had remained there for a considerable time, enjoying the genial climate and pleasant long days, expressing their astonishment at the wonderful sight of continuous Dawns lasting for days and months together, and also manifesting their overwhelming dread of the supposed endless nights, keeping, however, all the while, constant communication