The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c8.7

c8.7

From another standpoint, we may have to believe in no distant future that the Vedic *Ṛiṣis* were not without culture-contacts with the *Ṛiṣis* of Mohenjo Daro. May be, some of the items of the Mohenjo Daro complex are actually to be found in certain Vedic strands. Perhaps it may be established somewhat that during certain periods of this culture-contact the Mohenjo Daro monuments and the Vedic texts supplemented each other. In other words, the archæology of the Mohenjo Daro finds may have a part of its literary background in the Vedas, while the archæological monuments corresponding to Vedic literature may have in part to be detected in the finds of Mohenjo Daro, Harappa and allied regions. The antiquity of Vedic life and thought may altogether have to be pushed farther back towards the third or fourth millennium B.C.