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Indian religious tradition has been unique in various ways when one takes a review of the development of religious thoughts of man in general from the archaeological point of view. The conviction of the archaeologists is that the religious thought also underwent distinct and significant change when man became urban. With lot of discussion as to what exactly the nature of religious thought was during the Harappan civilization, some have concluded that it was primitive Saiva or Rudra cult, while some others hold with reasons to support that the mother Goddess cult was predominant factor in the religion of urban civilization, and prospered in present regions of Sindh, Punjab and Haryana.
Archaeologists have emphatically pointed out that Rgvedic Aryans represent the late Harappan period which is estimated to be from 1800 to 1600 BCE. It is very difficult to decide the date of the Vedic literature especially, the Rg-veda which is supposed to be the earliest text of that tradition.
