Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.s1.3

c9.s1.3

Pargiter has gone so far as to assert that Rigvedic learning had originated in the East and spread to the West on the ground that the rivers mentioned in the famous *Nadī-stuti* are from the east to the west, beginning with Gaṅgā, Yamunā, and Sarasvatī, in accordance with the course of migration of Rigvedic learning from east to west. Hopkins adds to this geographical evidence that of the physical or natural scenery depicted in the Rigveda. A part of the Rigveda and of its highest poetry is inspired by Ushas, the deity of Dawn, whose splendours are best seen in the western parts of the Panjab, to the west of the Indus, which are not troubled much by clouds and rainfall. But the other parts of the Rigveda tell of contrary natural phenomena, of clouds and storms, outbursts of torrential rains, thunder, and lightning, which point to the easterly region between the Sarasvatī and the Dṛishadvatī.