Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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vicinity, to the south, of the circumpolar region and know its natural environments. The regions in which they lived were cold but still habitable.
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A. C. Das, foremost among Sapta-Sindhu theorists, developed his geological argument on the references of certain Ṛgvedic hymns mentioning sea. maintains that Eastern Sea is mentioned in Ṛgveda alongwith four seas and Saraswati river flowed from the Himalayas to the ocean. He refers to two maps of H. G. Wells.
Das's Theory of Four Seas
The Rgvedic references mentioning the Eastern and the Four Seas appear in the Tenth Mandal of Rgveda. The theosophic and cosmogonic speculations of "gveda only appear in the Tenth Mandal which indicate remarkable similarity to the theosophic and cosmogonic hymns of Atharvaveda. The age of Atharvaveda may be placed Circa 800 B. C.10 The Tenth Mandal of the Rgveda cannot be placed earlier than 800 B. C.
The Fourth Ice Age map shows a vast stretch of ice wherefrom the Himalayas rose later. The Southern Sea
joins the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. To the North is a stretch of land comprising Eastern Afghanistan, Kashmir, upper Punjab, Tarai regions North Bihar, North Assam and Burma. To the West is a small stretch of ice where a part of Suleman ranges later arose. To South-West, there are vast long-stretching land regions. The later Wells' map indicating later paleolithic age about 35000-25000 years ago shows the Pamir range, the Suleiman range and the Himalayan range come into existence. Lands upto Allahabad, South Bihar, Banga, Anga and Kalinga have become populated. Ceylon is still unseparated from Indian mainland. Sea remains in West Gujerat and South Punjab. There is