Vedic Timeline – Older Than We Thought

Fri, 03/05/2010

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http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/scientific-verif-vedas.html

The early Vedic people congregated in an area that is now modern Pakistan and Eastern Iran (mostly). It is now commonly believed, based on archaeological evidence from these sites, that this ancient culture flourished from about 3000 – 1900 B.C. - Later moving once the Saraswati river dried up. The earliest culture was centered around the Saraswati River. For centuries the existence of this river has been disputed or called a myth. Yet, modern satellite imagery from this area shows the remnants of a dried up riverbed that would have supported the culture referred to in the Rig Veda and other ancient texts.

There are more than 2,500 Archaeological sites, two-thirds of which are along the recently discovered dried up Sarasvati River bed. These sites show a cultural continuity with the Vedic literature from the early Harrapan civilization up to the present day India.

The archaeological sites along the dried up Sarasvati River basin are represented by black dots. Several independent studies of the drying up of the Sarasvati River bed, all indicate the same time period of 1,900 B.C.E. The significance of establishing this date for the drying up of the Sarasvati River is, that it pushes the date for the composition of the Rig Veda back to approximately 3,000 B.C.E., as enunciated by the Vedic tradition itself. There are many references to events that happen in Vedic times that place the precession of the equinoxes in Krittka Nakshatra, which would have occurred around 3,000 BC. – the same time frame as the Sarsawati river civilization and this satellite imagery suggests. Since the River did not dry up until 1900 B.C., and the archaeological evidence reaches back to at least 3300 B.C., the rig Veda must be dated somewhere in this time.

Megasthenes, one of the earliest European visitor in Chandragupta Mourya’s court in fourth century BC noted in his book Indika, "All Indians are free and none  of  them is a slave. Indians neither invade other people, nor do other people invade India. They fare happily, because of their simplicity and frugality. Since they esteem beauty, they practice everything that can beautify their appearance, Further they respect alike virtue and truth."

In 1068 AD an Arab writer from Spain named Andalusi, wrote: "The Indians, among all nation, through many centuries and antiquity, have been the source of wisdom, fairness, and moderation. They are creators of sublime thoughts, universal apologues, rare inventions and remarkable concepts."

Five centuries later Akbar’s friend Abdul Fazl wrote, “The Hindus are religious, affable, lovers of justice, given to retirement, able in business, admirers of truth, grateful and of undoubted fidelity, and their soldiers know not what it is to fly from the battle field”

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