They found burial grounds at the site, but don't we cremate our dead?
The IVC practiced different ways to dispose their dead. Burial and cremation were both in vogue and the same can be seen from the archeological record. The society may have consisted of different groups which mutually exclusive cultural traits, Including burial customs. However cremation may have been the most commonly followed practice.
Parsis(Zoroastrians) even today don't cremate their dead coz they believe Fire is pure and corpse is impure. And Vedics perform cremation. Any chances of co-existence between the two back at IVC times which we need to ponder upon? The multitude of customs explains a multi-cultural society.
The indo-gangetic region was ideal ground for swift horse driven Chariots and such elite weapon, such as a war Chariot, requires existence of well organized political states which emerged in the western UP and Doab region in the post Vedic period...
Standard scholarship is of the opinion, though now much contested, that Vedic society, along with the attendant culture, emerged much later than IVC and hence the latter could not have influenced the former by a great degree. Since old Avestan was closely connected to the Vedic, so unlikely to have been influenced by IVC either.
It would be premature to draw any conclusions until ASI publishes it's full report on excavation going on in Sanauli. Remember Sanauli was first excavated in mid 2000 and going by ASI's previous track record, it's still early days for a full report (field reports for excavations conducted in the Mahabharata & Ramayana sites by the B. B. Lal is yet to be fully published)
Sir how true can be existences of this river in the past.
I was merely referring to references in literary texts that talk about battles fought in the western region. Of course we'll never see a clinchinsg evidence for the existence of river Saraswathi. However we have hydrological surveys dating to mid nineteen century, which shows existence a very large paleochannel running from the the siwalik ranges to the rann of match, in the broad regions that parallel the course of Saraswathi of the literature. Isro and other recent findings merely reinforce these old studies.
So Talageri was right?He mentioned the west ward flow of hostilities starting from our NW U.P,Haryana till Pakjab. He gave a periodic analysis of the Rigvedic era where he spoke abt the geographical features in RV mentioned in each -Late,Middle and post rigvedic periods with Dasarajnya Yuddha as a point of focus.
yes we do. but there are exceptions depending on situation....
If I'm not wrong Rishis and Spiritual Leaders are buried in some of our cultures.
Talageri's analysis of the Rg veda mandalas and their relative chronology depends on whether you accept his rearrangement of the 10 mandalas. Of course his argument is correct that the traditional arrangement of the mandalas(1-10) was not based on any chronology and probably he is the first person, in recent years, to have made an attempt to study the texts chronology.
