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

and not made by man (apauruṣheya).
2. The Vedas were destroyed in the
deluge, at the end of the last Kalpa.
3. At the beginning of the present
Kalpa, the Rishis, through tapas,
reproduced in substance, if not in
form, the ante-diluvian Vedas, which
they carried in their memory by the
favor of god.
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inter-Glacial; but its ultimate
origin is still lost in geological
antiquity.
2. Aryan religion and culture were
destroyed during the last Glacial
period that invaded the Arctic
Aryan home.
3. The Vedic hymns were sung in
post-Glacial times by poets, who
had inherited the knowledge or
contents thereof in an unbroken
tradition from their ante-diluvian
forefathers.
On a comparison of the two columns it will be found that the
tradition about the destruction and the reproduction of the Vedas,
recorded by Vyâsa in the Mahâbhârata verse referred to above, must
be taken to have been founded substantially on a historical fact. It is
true that according to the Pûranic chronology the beginning of the
current Kalpa is placed several thousands of years before the present
time; but if, according to the estimates of some modern geologists,
the post-Glacial period is, even now, said to have commenced some
80,000 years ago, if not earlier, we need not be much surprised at the
Pûranic estimate, especially when, as stated above, it is found to
disclose a real tradition of 10,000 years assigned to a cycle of the
four yugas, the first of which began with the new Kalpa, or, in the
language of geology, with the present post-Glacial period. Another
point wherein the two views may be said to differ is the
beginninglessness (anâditva) of the Vedas. It is impossible to
demonstrate historically or scientifically that Vedic religion and
worship is absolutely without a beginning. All that we can say is that
its beginning is lost in geological antiquity, or that the Vedic religion is
as old as the Aryan language or the Aryan man himself. If theologians
are not satisfied with the support which this scientific view accords to
their theory about the eternity of the Vedas,