Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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the period contemplated by Das. Sind had come into existence side by side the rise of Himalayas and both the Indus and the Saraswati had independently flowed to the Rann of Cutch in the Arabian Sea. Saraswati flowed to the Rann of Cutch in historical times. It was lost in the desert sands of Bikaner in post-Vedic period. The geological evidence put forward by Das so vehemently, does not go to prove his thesis.
The fundamental mistake that Tilak and Das laboured under is that they used the geological epithets of the Vedic literature in proving only the region and not the habitat of the people. The aim of their enquiry was to locate the habitat of the people, but the people they forgot. The correct line of enquiry would have been to know the characteristics of the people first and then to find out the probable region where such people could inevitably live. The hardy mountainous pastoral nomads could not be brought up in the pleasing congenial climate of the Sapta Sindhu hot plains. The map constructed by Das includes the hilly tracts of South Russia beyond the Himalays in the boundaries of his Sapta-Sindhu region. This is the region given by Das as the Irānāryans; Airyana Vaejo. This region takes us to the Southern fringe of central Asia. But this is not the region of Indus or Saraswati. Das thus stands demolished by himself.
Rgveda mentions the prevelance of a cold climate in the original Aryan Home. Aryans know of Hima or winter. They counted the number of years by reference
Cold Climate
to so many Himas or winters. The cold climate could not have been so extreme and severe as to forbid all life. It should have been a tolerable cold climate which could give birth to robust, optimistic and life-loving people. This cold climatic region should have been in the