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Discuss the geographical area known to the Rigvedic people. Were they familiar with the sea?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

The Rigveda is a poet's map, not a surveyor's one — its geography survives only incidentally, in the rivers its tribes fought over, the cattle-tracks its chiefs patrolled, and the mountains its sages named. Reconstructing the physical world of the Rigvedic Aryans therefore means reading their hymns for place-names and gauging how far their horizon…

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