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

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by snow and ice, as well as about the Arctic origin of the Vedic
deities, were definitely known to the bards of these races. In short,
researches in Vedic chronology and calendar do not warrant us in
placing the advent of the last Glacial epoch, which destroyed the
ancient Aryan home, at a time several thousands of years previous to
the Orion period; and from what has been stated in the first two
chapters of the book, it will be seen that this estimate well agrees with
the conclusions of American geologists, who, from an examination of
the erosion of valleys and similar other well-ascertained facts, assign
to the close of the last Glacial epoch a date not older than about 8000
B.C. We might even go further and say that ancient Vedic chronology
and calendar furnish an independent corroboration of the moderate
view of the American geologists; and when two independent lines of
research unexpectedly lead us to the same result, we may very well
reject, at least in the present state of our knowledge, the extravagant
speculations of Croll and his followers, and, for all practical purposes,
adopt the view that the last Glacial epoch closed and the post-Glacial
period commenced at about 8000 B.C. From this to the Orion period
is an interval of about 3000 years, and it is not at all improbable that
the traditions of the ancient home should have been remembered and
incorporated into hymns whose origin can be clearly traced to that
period. In short, the Vedic traditions, far from being contradictory to
the scientific evidence, only serve to check the extravagant estimates
regarding the age of the last Glacial epoch; and if the sober view of
American geologists be adopted, both geology and the traditions
recorded in the ancient books of the Aryan race will be found alike to
point out to a period not much older than 8000 B.C. for the
commencement of the post-Glacial era and the compulsory migration
of the Aryan races from their Arctic home.
And not only Vedic but also Purânic chronology, properly
understood, leads us to the same conclusion. According to the
Purânas the earth and the whole universe are occasionally subjected
to destruction at long intervals of time, the earth by