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The Ṛgvedic culture in the Sarasvatī valley shared many Indus valley traditions such as pottery and bronze-making styles, use of burnt brick, use of seals, binary and decimal digits for standardisation, geometry in altar construction, astronomy etc. The Vedic literature amply testified the spirit of enquiry. In the Nāsadīya Sūkta (RV.10.129), the origin of creation was discussed. The existence in nature of a self-supporting principle was inferred (RV.10.129.5).