Artic Home of the Aryans by Lokamanya Bal ... - Mandhata Global

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ancestors of our race abandoned it not out of “irresistible impulse,” or
“overcrowding,” but simply because it was ruined by the invasion of
snow and ice brought on by the Glacial epoch. In short, the Avestic
tradition, as recorded in this Fargard, is the oldest documentary
evidence of the great climatic convulsion, which took place several
hundreds of years ago, and the scientific evidence of which was
discovered only during the last forty or fifty years. It is, therefore, a
matter of regret that the importance of this tradition should have been
so long misunderstood or overlooked.
It will be seen from the foregoing discussion that the traditional
evidence preserved in the first two Fargards of the Vendidad is
especially important for our purpose. The Dawn-hymns in the يig-
Veda supply us with the evidence of a long continuous dawn of thirty
days in the ancient home, and there are passages in the Vedas which
speak of a long continuous night of six months or of shorter duration,
and a year of seven or ten months. It can also be shown that several
Vedic myths and deities bear an unmistakable stamp of their Arctic
origin. But, as stated before, in the whole Vedic literature there is no
passage which will enable us to determine the time when the Polar
regions were inhabited, or to ascertain the reason why they were
abandoned. For that purpose we drew upon geology which has
recently established the fact that the climate of the circumpolar
regions, which is now so cold as to render the land unsuited for
human habitation, was mild and genial before the last Glacial-period.
It followed, therefore, that if the Vedic evidence pointed to an Arctic
home, the forefathers of the Aryan race must have lived therein not
after but before the last Glacial epoch. But the traditions preserved in
the Avesta dispense with the necessity of relying on geology for this
purpose. We have now direct traditional evidence to show (1) that the
Airyana Vaêjo had originally a good climate, but Angra Mainyu
converted it into a winter of ten and a summer of two months, (2) that
the Airyana Vaêjo was so situated that the inhabitants of Yima’s Vara
therein regarded the year only as a day, and saw the: sun rise only
once a year,