The Vedic fathers of geology

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Tur Veprc Faraurs or GEOLOGY.

The Tertiary or Cainozoic Era.

The Vedic and Purdnic Texts.

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(ज) स ( प्रजापातिः ) वशहो- | रूपं कूस्पौपन्यमज्जव्‌ ।

(ते. न्ना. १ १.३. ६).

(ज) वाराहं वपुरास्थितः । ( FASTICITT १. ४. ७ ). (ङ) वराहो नरसिंहश्च वामनो | राम एव च । (महाभारतम्‌ ९२. ३६९. ६०३ -४). |

( ई ) तस्मानज्नखिहअासीस्परमेन्धुः ॥ ( नृ. घु. ता. उ. २.९).

STATEMENT No. IV.

English Translation thereof. joe SS 1 (@) “ He ( Prajapati) having assumed the form of

| a boar plunged beneath”

into waters ). ( Taitt. By. 1. 1. 3.6 ). Muirs O.8. T, Vol. L P58, 2 Kd. (6) Had taken the form of a boar. (Vishnu Purina I, 4. 7) (c) The Boar, the ManLion, the Man or the Dwarf. Waman, and Rima (were all the incarnations of God). (h) Vide p. 89 above.

All these expressions evidently seem to be an indication of the coming into being of the

mammalian order, represented by Boar. And although, the idea of of the geological evolution, and successive grades of hazy, and does not appear

Fathers, im respect progressive creation, vitality, looks rather

awe or the our Vedic

to have been duly expressed in so many distinct

words, still reading betw necting the disjomted links

een the lines,

and conof stray thoughts

found in the Vedic Literature, it is by no means