The Vedic fathers of geology

GrotocicaL ANTIQUITY OF THE VEDAS. 33 And above all, even Sir Charles Lyell, the oreat authority in Geology, has admitted the existence of the Tertiary Man, from the facts available and the evidence placed before him, which he had personally scrutinized and sifted, and yery ably discussed in his interesting work entitled “ The Geological evidences of the Antiquity of Man ”, with all the requisite care which the subject demanded. ( Vide ante p 5. Note ). Besides, relics of Miocene Man were also found in Further India, and, therefore, in regard to this, Edward Clodd, President of the Folk Lore Society stated that, “ Quite lately, there have been discovered in an Upper Miocene deposit in Further India, some clipped fit flakes, of undoubted human workmanship.” ( The Story of Primitive Man p 23. Ed. 1895 ).

Thus, the Tertiary Man having been proved, the solution of the second and the fourth question has naturally become simpler. The answer thereto is evidently in the affirmative, since both the Ice Age and the Quaternary Era were preceded by the Tertiary Epoch ; while, our Rig-Vedic Rishis had seen the last and the Great Ice Age, and were older than the Quaternary period, as we shall presently show.

Now, we shall for a while tun cur attention to the remaining questions, and see if there