The Vedic fathers of geology

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been carried along these, in a ship guided by the fish, to the Northern Mountains or the Himalayas. And in respect of this, Mr. Tilak also says that, “ Nevertheless, it seems that the Indian story of deluge refers to the same catastrophe as is described in the Avesta, and not to any local deluge of water or rain. For, though the Shatapatha Brahmana mentions only a flood (aughah ), the word pralaya, which Panini ( VIL-3-2) derives from pralaya (a deluge ), signifies ‘snow,’ ‘frost,’ or “ice, in the later Sanskrit literature. This indicates that the connection of ice with the deluge was not originally unknown to the Indians, though in later times it seems to have been entirely overlooked.” ( Arctic Home in the Vedas. p. 387 )

Moreover, the prophetic words in the Avesta (ante pp. 81, 82), like those of the Fish in the Shatapatha Brahmana (pp. 135, 137), corroborate and establish the fact that the IndoA’ryan story of the Deluge refers to the same devastation by Ice and Snow-floods, during the Pleistocene Period, and not to any local floods of water or deluge caused by excessive rain.

Because, the close similarity in the Delugestory as narrated in the Vedas and the Avesta, nay, the identity in the incident and even of the names of some of the chief characters therein,