Soon came the elaborate rituals of Yajna (the sacrificial fire) and fire- worship: We won’t perish, O fire, if you give us protection from perils and pestilences… The other vital ingredient of life was fire to ignite which dry woods were rubbed. They sang paeans of praise for water: Give us strength, O waters, like the mother’s milk to the infant and rid us of ailments Give us cheers, O waters, and offer us the elixir of life… The agriculturists were naturally looking for cattle-wealth as well as water even at the expense of others and were always deliriously happy when they reached a riverfront that would perpetuate supply of sweet water to the fields. There were other tribes and peoples who came to India from the Northeast and became absorbed in India. Could the Indus Valley civilisation disappear altogether? More likely, thought Nehru, it was a synthesis and fusion between the new Aryans and the Dravidians who were probably the representatives of the Indus Valley.
The rise of the Aryans, with their river-bound agricultural community, took place perhaps 1000 years after the Indus Valley period. Dubey, Virendra Razdan, Rajendra Mehra, Mano, Shrivastava, Navtej Hundal, Nafisa Sharma, Abha Mishra, Sujata Kanego, Kanika Vajpai, Poonam lha, Ila Arun, Vijay Kashyap
A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service BroadcasterĮpisode 3: The Vedic People and The Rigveda
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