History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.179

v5.c72.179

What the state of things was before the composition of the Ṛgveda cannot be said with certainty. There is no general agreement as to the age of the Ṛgveda and of the ruins found at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Sir John Marshall (in Mohenjodaro vol. I. p. 86) refers to complete burials, partial burials and post cremation burials. The excavations at Lauriya⁵⁴¹ Nandangarh have brought to light supposed Vedic burial mounds in which has been found a small repousse golden plaque bearing the figure of a nude female, the Earth Goddess. These and the disposal of corpses in paleolithic ages are matters for archaeologists and are outside the proper scope of the present work.