The Vedic fathers of geology

GEOLOGICAL ANTIQUITY UF THE VEDAS. 55

car lay smashed on the river Vipdsh, after it was broken by indra; and that she had afterwards fled away from thence.” The origmal is as under:— |

^ एतदस्या अनः शये संपिष्टं विपारया । सर सीं परावतः ॥ @ Bo. 22 ).

“ That car of ners lay smashed on the Vipat. Away she ran from thence.” ( 8. P. Pandit )

** So, there, this car of Ushas lay, broken to pieces, in Vipas. And she herself fled far away.’” (R. T. H. Griffith ).

It is hardly necessary here to state, that the Dawn ( उषासम्‌ ) 810 116 अ ( @#) were created in Aryavarta by Indra, who was also of Aryayarta, as the Dawn had appeared and disappeared: in the region of the river Vipash (modern Beeas), and the Sun also had made its appearance om the horizon of the same rigion, viz. Beeas, which evidently forms part of the Punjab. ( vide RigVeda. IV. 30. 9, 11 )

Here, then, we stand on solid ground and terrestrial evidence. Vor, the river Vipash? referred to in the aforesaid verse isthe modern Beeas,! and Yaska identifies it with the river

1 Vide Max Muller’s Indiv. What canit teach us? p. 172, Edition 1883 ; and Muir’s Original Sanskrié Texts, vol. I. pp. 845. 342, Note 116. Edition 1871,