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( 101 ) no Sea to the North, the East and the West. Das has constructed his own geological map,11 but his own map does not show any sea to the West of Sapta-Sindhu region. If at all any icy stretch which may be called a Sea existed to the West of Sapta-Sindhu regions, it existed long before 50,000 or more years. The Deccan beyond the Vindhyas was surrounded by seas on all the four directions but nobody assigns that region the credit of being the original Aryan home. Řgvedic Āryans did not even know of it during these times.
The references to Samudra, given by Das, do not relate to the boundary of any country. Das failed to detect a reference to four Seas in the Ninth Mandal of Regveda. Soma is prayed to pour upon the worshippers four oceans of riches from every side. Similarly Indra is the filler of four seas in Rgveda 10.4.5.2. The institution of Muni is a preAryan Bhāratīya institution. They are spoken as residing in the Eastern and the Western Seas. Some Aryan adventurers might have travelled to the Bay of Bengal before its final Brahmāryan occuptation and brought the knowledge of the region they were later to occupy. They had earlier navigated in the Arabian Sea. This may as well be the geographical knowledge of the land of their occupation. The reference of the Eastern and the Western Seas do not signify any geological importance. Manu defines Åryāvarta as the region between the two mountains (the Himalayas and the Vindhyas) as far as the Eastern and the Western oceans.13 This dos not prove that Manusmriti was existing 20,000 years before.
Das also maintains that river Saraswati Howed directly to Sea from its origin in Himalayas and never joined the
river Indus. Rgveda also maintains that Saraswati River
Saraswati flowed to the ccean.14 Das con
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