Let's go back to the top over again. This time we'll tell the story as it appears in the Aryan's and the Dravidian's own records-the Hindu version of Hindu history.
The descendants of the Vedic Aryan's that is, the people who live mostly in northern India today and speak languages realted to Sanskrit, believe they have been right where they are today since the time immemorial. The Veda, their ancient Bible, describes the landscape of northern India and Pakistan. It never mentions countryside like the area in the Caucaus near the Caspian Sea that Western scholars thought was the Aryan's original home.
In fact, to explain why the Veda describes a lush homeland like India rather than a barren location like the Caucaus, these scholars decided that throughout the Veda the Aryans were imaginning what they wished their homeland looked like, not describing how it actually appeared!
Over and over the Veda mentions a mighty river called the Sarasvati where Aryan communities flourished and Vedic priests sang the hymns of glorious gods, like the Indra, slayer of the terrifying dragon Vritra, and Agni, lord of fire who transport prayers to heaven on flames and smoke.Western scholars speculated that the Sarasvati might have been one of the rivers to the east of Aral Sea in Soviet Central Asia. Perhaps, some even speculated, it had never been anything more than a figment of the ancient poet's imaginations! Hindus insists the river was real, but disappeared in the course of time. They say it continues to flow underground, where only saints with very pure vision can see it.
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