The Vedic fathers of geology

A’RYAVARTIC CRADLE SUPPORTED BY Proor. 153

It is, however, not the province of this work to cite evidence and give details for proving the A’ryan Cradle in Arydvarta. I would, therefore, only recapitulate 111 brief some main points against the Arctic theory, the European hypothesis, and the Central Asian question, to avoid misunderstanding. The supposition that the tropics were too hot for life, even after the Polar regions and temperate zones were inhabited, “is open to question on physical grounds, and appears contradicted by the similarity of Silurian fossils in the Southern hemisphere to hose in the northern.” ( Vide Manual of the Geology of India. By Messrs. Medlicott and Blanford. p. XXIL). Besides, “there are very curious indications of a low temperature having prevailed in the Indian area, in very ancient

epochs.” (Manual of Indian Geology. p. X XII).

Moreover, the discovery of the fossils belonging to the Vindhyan or Algcnkian Era, in the Salt Range of the Punjab, indicates that A’ryavarta or the Land of the Seven Rivers ( aaftza: ) having sufficiently cooled down, had enjoyed a low temperature and mild climate, even during Pre-Cambrian and subsequent Bpochs. Since, life in A’ryAvarta has been proved by geological evidence to he older than even the Lowest Cambrian Age, as