Secret of Vaidik Sovereignty : Vaidik Problem and Its Solution

According to current conceptions the heart of that an- cient mystery has been plucked out and revealed to the gazeof all or rather no real secret ever existed. The hymns of the Veda are the sacrificial compositions of a primitive and still barbarous race written around a system of ceremonial and pro- pitiatory rites addressed to personified Powers of Nature and replete with a confused mass of half-formed myth and crude as- tronomical allegories yet in the making. Only in the later hymns do we perceive the first appearance of deeper psychological and moral ideas — borrowed some think from the hostile Dravidi- ans the “robbers” and “Veda-haters” freely cursed in the hymns themselves — and however acquired the first seed of the later Vedantic speculations. This modern theory is in accord with the received idea of a rapid human evolution from the quite recent savage; it is supported by an imposing apparatus of critical re- search and upheld by a number of Sciences unhappily still young and still largely conjectural in their methods and shifting in their results — Comparative Philology Comparative Mythology and the Science of Comparative Religion.