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Reading a River: Ecology, Settlement and Climate in the Late Rigvedic Northwest
What the Nadistuti (RV 10.75) implies about the Holocene landscape of the Vedic Punjab. Snowmelt and monsoon regimes, settlement patterns inferred from the river-list, the 4.2 ka climate event, and what the hymn is silent about.
What the Rigveda Says About Nature: Rivers, Fire, Dawn, and the Cosmic Order of Ṛta
The Rigveda is the oldest surviving record of how a literate culture saw the natural world. A close reading of its rivers, its fire-sciences, its dawn observations, and the principle of ṛta that holds them together.