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rences clearly indicate that the Aryans knew thick blazing forests. The fodder-producing steppy lands and the thick forests covered the Aryan habitat. The northern parts of the Āryan habitat, the Tundras, were populated by thick forests Circa 3000 B. C. or so. The phenomena of recurrent mass fires may happen only in thickest forests. Central Europe, Bhārata and Central Asia did not possess thick and extensive forests. The Aryan Cradle-land covered steppy regions and thick forests. This geological evidence afforded by Rgveda, excludes the possibility of the claims of these regions to be the Aryan Cradle-land.
Rgveda preserves certain remniscences of the geological conditions obtaining in the Aryan Cradle-land in the present Pregent Geological geological age. The present formations of the
Formations Earth had taken its shape not earlier than 20,000 years ago. It may be that the remnants of the Tethys Sea in the shapes of separate shallow pools of water at some places became habitable Circa 7000 or 10,000 years back. It is completely futile to try to discover in Rgveda some thing of the pre-Fourth Ice Age. Øgvedic geological references, when tested in the light of the present geological formations, sufficiently establish that the vast stretches of the south Ural regions claim to be the Aryan Cradle.land.
References
1. Ķgveda 1.8.3.7; 1.12.1.3; 4.2.7.3; 4.2.10.6; 5.4.10.5; 6.3.3.4 ;
8.2.2.4 ; 8.2.1.28 ; 8.2.2.5; 8.10.1.12 ; 8.10.3.2; 8.10.5.4 ; 2. Ķgveda 5.3.11.4 ; 9.3.2.4 ; 9.4.18.10; 9.5.10.4 ; 9.6.2.9 ; 3. Řgveda 3.4.10.2. 4. Kgveda 9.4.15.3. 5. F. Maxmuller ; The Vedas ; 1956 ; Pages 111-114. 6. Rgveda 1.8.7.7 ; 6.3.5.7 ; 8.6.3.30 ; 9.4.13.3. 7. B.G. Tilak ; The Aretic Home of the Vedas; 1956, Pages 13, 421. 8. H.G. Wells ; An Outline of History; 1931 ; Pages 77, 84.
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