HUNTING TO FARMING
120pp
The Indus culture was the first human culture on the earth and, that is why, what has been presented to us through inscriptions is just its infancy. The inscriptions say that they had moved from hunting to farming. They founded villages and constructed houses. The useful animals had begun to be domesticated and the heaths were cleared off from harmful creatures for human habitation,.
The book highlights the evolution of human civilization. Readers and scholars may find the book useful.
Dr. Madhusudan Mishra (1933), M. A., Ph. D. is a former Dy. Director of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi. He taught Sanskrit in Goenka College, Sitamarhi, Bihar and Frankfurt University, Germany. He knows all the stages of Indo-Aryan from Vedic to Hindi. He has authored eighteen books. His present interest is Indus language and civilization.
Preface
Introduction
A Long Dry Season
The Drying Summer
The Coming Hot Summer
The Sun Stroke
Plenty of Rain after the Hot Summer
It will Rain
The Arrival of the Rains
The Fertilising Waters
A Torrential Rain in the Evening
The Thunder and Lightning
The Chilly Winter
The Wealth of Nature
The Harmful Aspects of Nature
The Weather Forecast
The Fire Discovered
Fire and Water
The Indus Weaponry
The Snake Bites
A Serpent-killer Invented
The Cow Domesticated
Domestication of Horses
The Hoof of a Horse is Dangerous
Founding a Village
The Perils of the Village Life
The 'rags' of the Rustic Dialects
The Watchman
A Dog as a Guard
The Wheeled Carts Invented
The Flour - mill Invented
Fodder for the Domesticated Cattle
The Man Builds His House
The Beginning of Pottery
A Happy Home
The Oil - lamp
The Cattle - breeding
The Village- Well
The Agricultural Started
Lavatory System
Storing Waters
The Reservoir of Waters
The Perennial Waters from the Mountain
The Soma- juice
To Look Inward and to See with Eyes
The Generation of Light
There is Life After Death
The Vedic Carsani
An Engineer : nisara
The Transition of Thought
At Rbhus of the RV
The Vedic rata - and rati
The Big Gap between the Indus and Vedic Culture
A Dry Reservoir of Waters
The Origin of the Savitri - stanza
Conclusion