The Vedic fathers of geology

188 Tue Vepic Fatarrs or GEOLOGY.

{ Muir’s Original Sanskrit ‘l'exts. Vol. I. pp. 182-3, Second Edition )

Now, the Northern Mountain in the above narrative evidently refers to the Snow-cladHimalayas ; and by the expression gat faz, the commentator also understands the Himavat ( हिसवत्‌ ) or the Himalaya to be the Mountain to the North of A’ryavarta and Bharata-Khanda or India. Besides, the phrase Tat fife shows but the past reminiscence of a very vivid recollection of the great snowy mountain, which in the hoary days of the Tertiary Period, was observed by our oldest ancestors to the North of the region of the renowned Seven Rivers (a7Ta4: ), which was the A’ryan cradle and the Birth place of the Primitive ancestors of our Rig-Vedic Fore-Fathers, from where we had extended our conquests in all directions, and colonised the vast Arctic Regions in the Tertiary and Inter-Glacial Epochs ; but which, on account of the advent of the Great Ice Age, having become uninhabitable in the Pleistocene Period, we were compelled to return home, bag and bagoage, by way of that everlasting showy Peak of the highest mountain in the worldthe Himalaya—which has been the Northern Boundary of A’vyAvarta, whose Majesty was ever all in all to us.