Wisdom of the Ancient Seers Mantras of the Rig Veda - 3rd Reprint Edition 2016 by David Frawley
The most recent archaeological evidence points to a dispersal of the Indo-European people toward Europe, and an expansion within India starting about 7000 BC. The spread of agriculture appears to have been at the basis of this expansion. David Frawley has recently brought together this evidence as well as a new analysis of the literary evidence in another book called Gods, Sages and Kings to provide a new synthesis of our knowledge of the Vedic age. This book reviews the astronomical references in the Vedas and describes the geography of Sapta Saindhava, the original home of the Indo-Aryans. This region lay roughly between the Indus and the Ganga rivers, although the periphery of the Aryan world stretched all the way to the steppes of Central Asia, to the Caspian sea and the Oxus river. The Rigvedic hymns were composed mostly on the banks of Sarasvati and its tributary Drishadvati in the Aryan heartland called Brahmavarta.
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- Author:David Frawley
- Binding Type:Hardcover
- ISBN:9788120811591
- Total Pages:275
- Publishing Year:2016
- Language:English