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Vedic Culture is indigenous to India
It
can be scientifically proven that the
Vedic Culture is indigenous, through
archaeology, the study of cultural continuity,
by linguistic analysis, and genetic
research.
For
example, the language and symbolism
found on the Harappan seals are very
Vedic. We find the Om symbol, the leaf
of the Asvatta or holy banyan tree,
as well as the swastika, or sign of
auspiciousness, mentioned throughout
the Vedas. Om is mentioned in the Mundaka
and Katha Upanisads as well as
the Bhagavad Gita.
The
Holy Asvatta tree is mentioned in the
Aitareya and Satapata
Brahmanas as well as the Taittiriya
Samhita and Katyayana
Smrti.
The
pictoral script of these Harappan seals
has been deciphered as consistently
Vedic and termed "Proto-brahmi,"
as a pre-sanskrit script.
This
piece of pottery from the lowest level
of Harappan excavations with pre-harappan
writing is deciphered as ila vartate
vara, referring to the sacred land
bounded by the Sarasvati River, described
in the Rig Veda.
Additionally,
other archaeological finds are culturally
consistent, such as the dancing girl,
whose bracelets are similar to those
worn by women of Northwest India today
as well as
the three stone Siva Lingas found in
Harappa by M. S. Vats in 1940. The worship
of the Siva Linga is mentioned in the
Maha Narayana Upanisad of the
Yajur Veda and is still ardently
practiced today.
The
Vedas were maligned by early indologists
because of their disagreement with their
Eurocentric colonialists world view,
a view which produced and depended on
the Aryan Invasion Theory. The fact
that the Aryan Invasion Theory has been
seriously challenged recently by scholars
and indologists, adds credence to the
Vedas as viable, accurate and indigenous
sources of information.
Satellite
imagery of the Dried Up Sarasvati River
Basin
Using
modern scientific methods, such as satellite
imagery and dating techniques, it can
be shown that the ancient statements
of the Vedas are factual, not mythical
as erroneously propagated. High resolution
satellite images have verified descriptions
in The Rig Veda of the descent of the
ancient Sarasvati River from it's source
in the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea.
"Pure
in her course from the mountains to
the ocean, alone of streams Sarasvati
hath listened."
The
mighty Sarasvati River and it's civilization
are referred to in the Rig Veda more
than fifty times, proving that the drying
up of the Sarasvati River was subsequent
to the origin of the Rig Veda, pushing
this date of origin back into antiquity,
casting further doubt on the imaginary
date for the so-called Aryan Invasion.
The
Satellite image (above) clearly shows
the Indus-Sarasvata river system extending
from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea.
Here the Indus River is on the left,
outlined in blue, while the Sarasvati
River basin is outlined in green. The
black dots are the many archeological
sites or previous settlements along
the banks of the now dry Sarasvati River.
The
drying up of the Sarasvati River around
1900 B.C.E. is confirmed archaeologically.
Following major tectonic movements or
plate shifts in the Earth's crust, the
primary cause of this drying up was
due to the capture of the Sarasvati
River's main tributaries, the Sutlej
River and the Drishadvati River by other
rivers.
Although
early studies, based on limited archaeological
evidence produced contradictory conclusions,
recent independent studies, such as
that of archaeologist James Shaffer
in 1993, showed no evidence of a foreign
invasion in the Indus Sarasvata civilization
and that a cultural continuity could
be traced back for millennia.
In
other words, Archaeology does not support
the Aryan Invasion Theory.