The fish is identified with Prajapati. Was this a memory of monsoon floods that the early Aryans encountered? The Vedic Manu who received the falcon is forgotten by the time the Mahabharata was ...

The terms “Vedic period” and “Arya” have captured ... helped to sustain the myth of Aryans arriving from Central Asia. However, discoveries made at the Sinauli Archaeological site in ...

The Vedas comprise a vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry, philosophical dialogue, myth, and ritual incantations developed and composed by Aryans over 3,500 years ago ... oldest surviving cultural ...