Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c4.7

c4.7

Chapter II, Pre-historic Period, draws attention to the artefacts or tools of men living in the Old and New Stone ages. The collective evidence proves the distribution of Primitive Man in India from Kashmir to Madras. Besides the modern terms for the pre-historic implements attention may be drawn to the old terms as aśman-mayī vāśī (stone celts), ayasī vāśī (copper celts), aśma-chakra (stone wheel or pulley), *svadhiti* (axe) all used in the Rigveda, pointing to the fact that Rigvedic man knew some details of the culture of the pre-historic man.