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JAINA ANTIOUPAY
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Vol. XIV
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July
ARRAH (INDIA)
No. 1
1948
M1OHEN-JO-DARO ANTIQUITIES & JANISM.
By
Kinta Prasad Juin, JIRAS.
Mohenjodaro antiquities nuk an epochmaking discovery in regard to the civilisation of India. I pushes back the begininng of our historical dala !y thousands of year's but it is not sound to consider the Indus civilisation as pre-Aryan or non-Indian. We have reasons to believe that Indus civilisation is a creation of Aryans; whose home was nowhere else than India. To wit in the words of Prof. Humayun Kabir, "tigre have been scholars who doubt whether Mohenjodaro represents a pre Arvan culture at all. They believe that India was the original home of the Aryans and Mohenjodaro marks only an early stage in the development of Aryan culture."? Olcourse the Aryans, who created the high level of civilisation in Indus valley, were not of Vedic pursuasion. Sir John Marshall was emphatic on the point when he remarked that "a comparison of the Indus and Vedic cultures shows incontestably that they were unrelated...... The Vedic religion is normally aniconic. At Mohenjodaro
1. Humayun Kubir, 'Our Heritage (Bombay), p. 12.
