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Geography, Peoples And Geodynamics Of India In Puranas And Epics : A Geologist’s Interpretations
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Aryan Books International
| Author:
K.S. Valdiya
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
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Author:
K.S. Valdiya
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Written by a geologist who read the texts of the Puranas and the Epics in conjunction with a mass of studies on geological history of the larger Indian continent and his own extensive field work in different parts of the country, this illustrated book endeavours to demonstrate that the narratives by scholarly sages embodied in these ancient Sanskrit works do not represent figments of poetic imagination, but provide ? if shorn of metaphors, idiomatic phrases and allegories ? the revealing facts and invaluable information on the geography and geomorphological layout, the ethnicity of the people who lived in different parts of the country, the flora and fauna that peopled the land of Bharatvarsha, and the drastic geodynamic events and climatic changes that overtook the land particularly in the last 12,000 years of the Holocene Epoch ? called the Chaturyuga in the Pura?as and Epics. The scholars of the Pura?as and Epics time were quite knowledgeable about the origin, evolution and progression of life, including the coming of man, the interior of the earth, the dynamics of crustal upheavals, the occurrence, mining and metallurgy of minerals, the tapping of natural gas, reclaiming land from seas, and building bridges across even a sea. The relevant original Sanskrit text given in the Devanagari script is accompanied by the author?s interpretation, rigorously tested on the anvil of incontrovertible evidence adduced from scientific studies on geological phenomena, human genetic markers, climate changes and backed up by tell-tale photographs.
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Written by a geologist who read the texts of the Puranas and the Epics in conjunction with a mass of studies on geological history of the larger Indian continent and his own extensive field work in different parts of the country, this illustrated book endeavours to demonstrate that the narratives by scholarly sages embodied in these ancient Sanskrit works do not represent figments of poetic imagination, but provide ? if shorn of metaphors, idiomatic phrases and allegories ? the revealing facts and invaluable information on the geography and geomorphological layout, the ethnicity of the people who lived in different parts of the country, the flora and fauna that peopled the land of Bharatvarsha, and the drastic geodynamic events and climatic changes that overtook the land particularly in the last 12,000 years of the Holocene Epoch ? called the Chaturyuga in the Pura?as and Epics. The scholars of the Pura?as and Epics time were quite knowledgeable about the origin, evolution and progression of life, including the coming of man, the interior of the earth, the dynamics of crustal upheavals, the occurrence, mining and metallurgy of minerals, the tapping of natural gas, reclaiming land from seas, and building bridges across even a sea. The relevant original Sanskrit text given in the Devanagari script is accompanied by the author?s interpretation, rigorously tested on the anvil of incontrovertible evidence adduced from scientific studies on geological phenomena, human genetic markers, climate changes and backed up by tell-tale photographs.
About Author
Recipient of many national awards, including S.S. Bhatnagar Prize (1976) of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, National Mineral Award of Excellence (1997) of the Ministry of Mines, Pitambar Pant Environment Fellow (1982-1984) of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Hindi Sevi Samman (Atmaram Puraskar) (2007) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Padmashree (2007) of the Government of India, National Lecturer (1977-1978) of the University Grants Commission, D.N. Wadia Medal (1995) of Indian National Science Academy and L. Rama Rao Gold Medal (1980) of the Geological Society of India, Professor K.S. Valdiya is a Fellow of all the three national Science Academies of India, the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Geological Society of America and the Geological Society of Nepal. Presently, he is Honorary Professor of Geodynamics at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru. He has held high positions as Additional Director in the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, as Professor of Geology, Dean Science and Vice-Chancellor in Kumaun University, and Golden Jubilee Research Professor of Indian National Science Academy at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He has also been a Distinguished Guest Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Visiting Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has written several books and monographs, including Geology of Kumaun Lesser Himalaya (1980), Aspects of Tectonics: Focus on Southcentral Asia (1984), Environmental Geology: Indian Context (1987), Dynamic Himalaya (1998), Saraswati, the River That Disappeared (2002), Geology, Environment and Society (2005), The Making of India: Geodynamic Evolution (2010) and Ek Thi Nadi Saraswati (2010). He is a prolific writer popularizing earth science and general science.
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