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

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hovering in the sky to be eventually broken up by the god of rain and
thunder, thereby giving rise to the worship of natural elements and
thus laying down the foundations of later Aryan mythology. It was on
these plains that they learnt the art of weaving, the products of which
superseded the use of hides for clothing, or constructed their
chariots, or trained their horses, or discovered the use of metals like
gold and silver. In short, all the civilization and culture which
Comparative Philology proves on linguistic grounds to have been
common to the different Aryan races before their separation is
regarded to have, first originated or developed on the plains of
Central Asia in post-Glacial times. Dr. Schrader, in his Pre-historic
Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples, gives us an exhaustive summary of
facts and arguments regarding primitive Aryan culture and civilization
which can be deduced from Linguistic Palæology, or Comparative
Philology, and as a repertory of such facts the book stands unrivalled.
But we must remember that the results of Comparative Philology,
howsoever interesting and instructive they may be from the linguistic
or the historical point of view, are apt to mislead us if we know not the
site of the original home, or the time when it was inhabited or
abandoned by the ancestors of our race. Comparative Philology may
teach us that cow was an animal known and domesticated before the
Aryan separation, or that the art of weaving was known in those old
days, because the words “cow” and “weave” can be traced in all the
Aryan languages. But it is now found that equations like these do not
help us much in definitely ascertaining where the united Aryans lived
and when they separated; while recent researches in Archaeology
and Anthropology have exhibited the improbability of a Central Asian
home of the Aryan races and successive migrations therefrom to
European countries. The hypothesis of a Central Asian home is,
therefore, now almost abandoned; but strange to say, that those, who
maintain that Europe was inhabited at the beginning of the Neolithic
age by the ancestors of the races who now inhabit the same regions,
are prepared to leave undetermined the question whether