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Hinduism_ A Christian Heresy

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<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 40<br />

Destruction of the Indus Dam System & Flooding<br />

The larger metropolises of the Indus managed to withstand the Aryan<br />

onslaught due to the protection of massive walls. To force their<br />

capitulation, the Aryans smashed the sophisticated Indus dam and<br />

irrigation system, no trace of which now remains. This led to widespread<br />

monsoon flooding, causing slit deposits, which are still to be found in the<br />

ruins of the Indus cities, and destruction of the fertile topsoil. This meant<br />

the end of settled agriculture in the Indus basin. Thus, the Vedas proudly<br />

praise Indra as the destroyer of this irrigation system, no trace of which<br />

now remains (vrtra=dam in Sanskrit):

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