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Rigveda And Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilization

Dr. S. Kalyanaraman

19 Temple Ave., Srinagar Colony, Saidapet, Chinnai-600015, India;

kalyan99

 

The discovery of the ancient courses of the Sarasvati river is a discovery of

the millennium and the dates of desiccation of this great river (ca. 1700 to

1300 B.C.)are fundamental in providing a broad range of dates for the Rigveda

and in establishing the continuity of the Indian civilization from ca. 7000 B.C.

The desiccation of the river led to migrations of people away from the banks of

the river to other parts of India.

Rigveda relates to the period when the river was in full flow, fed by the

glacier waters from three sources: (1) Mt. Kailas (S'atadru), (2) Yamuna

(erstwhile Chambal river) fed by the glacier waters of Yamunotri and (3) Tons

and Giri rivers fed by the Har-ki-dun glacier complex (Rupin and Supin) of the

Bandarpunch massif (20 kms. NW of Yamunotri, in W. Garhwal, UP) The banks of the

Sarasvati river had nourished the civilization ca. 3000 to 1700 B.C. (Website:

http://www.probys.com/sarasvati) The river also binds the Rigvedic culture and

the Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization since the Sarasvati river is the locus of over

1200 ancient archaeological settlements and sapta-sindhu is the Rigvedic domain.

Archaeology has provided C-14 dates for the settlements on the banks of the

Sarasvati river and work in historical metallurgy has established the antiquity

of the Ganeshwar mines in Rajasthan which provided the mineral sources to

sustain the bronze age civilization. Earth sciences have established the

secular sequence of desiccation of the Sarasvati river in a period ranging from

4000 to 8000 years Before Present (B.P.) The conclusions from these earth

science perspectives are that when the Sarasvati river was in its mighty flow,

it had carried the glacier waters which are now carried by Shatadru and Yamuna

and that the Rigveda is dated to a period of two millennia starting from a date

earlier than 3000 B.C.

The soma yajna is the soul of the Rigveda (a_tma_ yajn~asya: RV. IX. 2,10;

6,8). What is soma? Soma was electrum (gold-silver ore) which was purified in

the pavitra to yield potable gold and silver after reducing and oxidizing the

baser metals using ks.a_ra supplied by plants and using bones also as reducing

agents. (Kalyanaraman, Indian Alchemy: Soma in the Vedas, Delhi, Munshiram

Manoharlal, in press).

Maha_vrata is a remarkable example of the continuity of the civilization and

culture on the banks of the Sarasvati). Maha_vrata is the day of the winter

solstice which is celebrated as the New Year's Day in Punjab, Assam, Andhra

Pradesh and Tamil Nadu (cf. festivals of Rohri, Bogali Bihu, Bhogi-man.t.alu,

Bhogi-Pongal; the tradition is to burn out the old and herald the new by using

the fresh produce from the harvest.) Aitareya a_ran.yaka which is an integral

component of the Rigveda explains the maha_vrata as a ritual and as an allegory.

A decipherment of the script of the civilization has led to the announcement

that the inscriptions are lists of bronze-brass-copper weapons produced by the

fire- and metal-workers of the bronze-age civilization. The website is:

http://sarasvati.simplenet.com (kalyan99) The decipherment of the

inscriptions of the civilization uses an Indian Lexicon which integrates the

lexemes of all the languages of India in semantic clusters. This is a change in

paradigm in philology establishing India of the days of the Rigvedic culture and

Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization as a Linguistic Area as the bronze age dawned ca.

3000 B.C. and matured for the next two millennia with further advances in

philology, philosophy, mathematics, alchemy, architecutre, iconography and other

cultural phenomena, resulting in the formation of thousands of new lexemes in

Indian languages.

 

Scientific Basis of Hinduism

Dr. Parveen Kumar Khosla,

P.O. Box 8665, Kansas City, MO 64114-0665

 

Hindus believe that several thousands years ago, their ancestors were able to

create a scientifically advanced society. The teachings of that society, which

are crudely called Hindu Teachings, were based upon very firm scientific logic

and hence modern medicine and modern societies can tremendously improve their

functioning by incorporating those teachings into their social set up. In this

presentation, I will review the available medical and scientific data to

demonstrate that the above assertion is true.

Firstly, I will review various recent medical studies which conclusively

demonstrate that the Lecto-Vegetarian diet is an ideal human diet. This is the

same conclusion which Hinduism reached about two to five thousand years ago.

This discussion will prove that Hindus of that era must have possessed

sophisticated scientific knowledge of human nutrition to reach the conclusion,

which modern medicine reached only recently. Furthermore, this discussion will

also make it obvious that, had modern medicine paid proper attention to this

Hindu teaching, it would not have to wait up till now to give proper dietary

advice to the members of modern society. It would have been able to do that many

thousands years ago.

Then, by reviewing the medical data on the human brain, I will demonstrate that

by incorporating the Hindu teachings on the subject, modern medicine and modern

societies can avoid the same mistake they committed by not paying proper

attention to Hindu teachings on the human diet.

 

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