The Vedic fathers of geology

GEOLOGICAL ANTIQUITY OF THE VepaAs. 77

Himalaya Mountain to the North of A’ryavarta, where he and his older ancestors were born and had lived first, and seen the Mountain—wall to their North, proves that we did not at first belong to the Arctic Regions, nor to Europe, nor to the Central Asiatic Plateaux, but had gone there from Ary4varta, for colonization, for conquests abroad, and for quenching the thirst of curiosity.

Moreover, this appears to have been corroborated by the remarkable Deluge-story

narrated in the Shata-Patha-Brahmana, in which the Fish is said to have sailed to the South and landed Manu in a ship on a peak of the highest mountain, Known to him as the Northern Mountain, because it was to the North of A’rydvarta, “the Aryan Cradle.”

सत ओधे उध्थिते नावमाेदें । ते स मत्स्य उषन्यापुषरवे । तस्य श्चुंगे नावः पाड प्रतिञ्मोच । तेन पतय॒त्तरं भिप्स्माधेgara | (Sh. P. Br. I. 8. 1. 5).

However, apart from this, and to crown the whole, there comes in unexpectedly the testimony from an altogether independent source, and the Avestic evidence affords, beyond all doubt, strong corroboration and supports the theory of the A’ryavartic Home and the A’ryan Cradle in the Land of the Sapta-Sindhus, or the famous region watered hy the World-renowned