{"id":684,"date":"2018-04-19T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:04:11","slug":"harappan-civilization-and-rigveda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/harappan-civilization-and-rigveda\/","title":{"rendered":"Harappan Civilization and Rigveda"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A careful consideration of the evidence of the Rig Veda will lead to the conclusion that references it contains about people and their civilization may be taken to refer to the <em>Harappan<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Discovery of <em>Boghaz-Koi<\/em> inscription (of 14<sup>th<\/sup> century B.C.) mentioned Rig Vedic deities that the Rig Veda existed earlier and the culture migrated from India to Asia Minor in that early age.<\/li>\n<li>The time period of the Rig Veda in its final form should be placed not later than about 3,000 B.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Similarities between Rig Vedic and Harappan Civilizations<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The geographical distribution of the <em>Harappan<\/em> sites can be seen in the light of Rig Vedic geography as well.<\/li>\n<li>The geographical features, mentioned in the Rig Veda, confirms the extension of Vedic Civilization from Afghanistan in the north to Gujarat in the south, <em>Ganga<\/em> in the east to <em>Kubha (Kabul)<\/em> in the west.<\/li>\n<li>The Rig Vedic culture was flourished in the area around the <em>Saraswati<\/em> river and its tributaries; more than 80% of the <em>Harappan<\/em> settlements are found around the <em>Saraswati<\/em> valley thus it was the main area of <em>Harappan<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The animals known to the Indus people are also known to the Rig Veda, including sheep, dog, buffalo, bull, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The animals hunted by the Rig Vedic people were antelopes, boars, buffalos (gaur), lions, and elephants most of them were also familiar to the Indus people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-686\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Untitled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Terracotta Figurine of Horse found from Lothal. The horse was an important animal in the Vedic period. Horse bones and terracotta figurines have been found at some <em>Harappan<\/em> sites as well.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the religious practices of the <em>Harappan<\/em> people like worship of <em>Pipal<\/em> trees, bull, <em>Siva-lingas<\/em> are still followed by the modern Hindus.<\/li>\n<li>Some terracotta figurines of women found at Nausharo still have vermillion in their hair-parting. <strong>Vermillion in the Hair Parting<\/strong> is the most precious and sacred symbol of married Hindu women even today.<\/li>\n<li>A terracotta tablet from <em>Harappa<\/em> depicts the scene of <strong><em>Mahisa sacrifice<\/em><\/strong>, reminding us of <em>Mahisasuramardini<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Harappan<\/em> people were aware of using ornaments like earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, garlands, and jewels.<\/li>\n<li>Rig Veda mentions the use of gold and <em>ayas<\/em> (copper). <em>Ayas<\/em> was used in making of vessels.<\/li>\n<li>The above-discussed similarities found between the Rig Vedic and <em>Harappan<\/em> civilization have led to the conclusion that the <strong><em>Harappan<\/em> civilization is the same as the Vedic civilization<\/strong> and <strong>the Aryans did not come to India from outside.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A careful consideration of the evidence of the Rig Veda will lead to the conclusion that references it contains about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-revision-prelims-history"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}