History of Classical Sanskrit Literature c5.44

c5.44

commencing with the *Kṛta-yuga* of this present Mahāyuga, the Ṛishis,¹ through *tapas*, re-produced in substance if not in form the ante-diluvian Vēdas which they carried in their memory by the favour of God.] [This is another expression of the historical view of modern scholars, like Mr. Tilak. They state that the Vedic or Āryan religion can be proved to be interglacial, but its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity, that the Āryan religion and culture were destroyed during the last glacial period that invaded the Arctic Āryan home, and that the Vedic hymns were sung in post-glacial times by poets, who had inherited the knowledge or contents therein of an unbroken tradition from their ante-diluvian fore-fathers.]