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

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antiquity — Theological views regarding the origin and character of the
Vedas summarized — Differently supported by writers on the different
schools of philosophy — Patanjali’s and Vyâsa’s view that the Vedas were
lost in the last deluge and repromulgated in substance, if not in form, at the
beginning of the new age — The four periods into which the Post-Glacial
era may be divided on astronomical grounds — Compared with the
characteristics of the four yugas given in the Aitareya Brâhmana —
Theological and historical views regarding the origin &c. of the Vedas
stated in parallel columns and compared — Vedic texts, showing that the
subject matter of the hymns is ancient though the language may be new,
cited — Vedic deities and their exploits all said to be ancient —
Improbability of Dr. Muir’s suggested reconciliation — Vedas, or rather
Vedic religion, shown to be inter-Glacial in substance though post-Glacial
in form — Concluding remarks.
We have now completed our investigation of the question of the
original home of the ancestors of the Vedic Aryans from different
stand-points of view. Our arguments, it will be seen, are not based on
the history of culture, or on facts disclosed by linguistic paleontology.
The evidence, cited in the foregoing chapters, mainly consists of
direct passages from the Vedas and the Avesta, proving
unmistakably that the poets of the يig-Veda were acquainted with the
climatic conditions witnessible only in the Arctic regions. and that the
principal Vedic deities, such as the revolving Dawn, the Waters
captivated by Vṛitra, the Ashvins the rescuers of the afflicted gods
and Sûrya, Indra the deity of a hundred sacrifices, Vishnu the vaststrider,
Varuna the lord of night and the ocean, the Âditya brothers or
the seven monthly sun-gods, Tṛita or the Third, and others, are
clothed with attributes which clearly betray their Arctic origin. In other
words, all the differential, mentioned in the third chapter as
characteristic of the Polar and Circum-Polar regions, are met with in
the يig-Veda in such a way as to leave no doubt regarding the
conclusion to be drawn from them. A day or a night of six months,
and a long continuous dawn of several days’ duration with its
revolving splendors, not to mention the unusually long Arctic day and
night or a year of less than twelve months’ sunshine, were all known
to the Vedic bards, and have been described