. The ruling races of prehistoric times in India, South-western Asia and Southern Europe. mthe south-west to the north-east, crossing the first, and thusthe sacrificer dedicates to Indra, the speaking or thunderinggod, saying, Om ! for Indra this, not for me, showing thatthe rain-god comes from the south-west with the south-westmonsoon, which brings the rains. The Adhvaryu then layson these lines the lower kindling stick from north-west tosoutli-east, and places across it the fire-drill from south-westto north-east. He thus makes the triangle a picture of themother-land of Nortliern India, str
. The ruling races of prehistoric times in India, South-western Asia and Southern Europe. mthe south-west to the north-east, crossing the first, and thusthe sacrificer dedicates to Indra, the speaking or thunderinggod, saying, Om ! for Indra this, not for me, showing thatthe rain-god comes from the south-west with the south-westmonsoon, which brings the rains. The Adhvaryu then layson these lines the lower kindling stick from north-west tosoutli-east, and places across it the fire-drill from south-westto north-east. He thus makes the triangle a picture of themother-land of Nortliern India, stretching from the Panjabin the north-west to Bengal in the south-east, made pregnantby the rains coming from the south-west. By this series ofceremonies the altar is completed, and its figure is as slioAvnin the accompanying diagram. ^ Eggeling, SaL Brah. \: I, 2, 17; iv. i, 5, S and 15; vol. 16; vol. xxvi. pp. 274, 276. ^ Eggeling, Sat. Brdh. i. 3, 4, 5 ; i. 4, 4, 2-7 ; vol. xii. pp. 91note \, ^ note i, and 128 note 2. 168 THE RULING RACES OF PREHISTORIC TIMES. South A, the western Paridhi ; B, tlie southern, sacred to Indra,the rain-god ; C, the northern, sacred to Mitra Varuna. D. E. The line North from north-west tosouth-east, on whichthe mother Urvashiis placed, who isshown in tlie Pre-face to be the mothergoddess of the yearof three The line from south-west to north-east, by which therain and father-god comes, H I, the two vrishanau of Kusha grass, symbolising thepassage of the peojile who consecrated the altar from westto east. This elaborate ceremonial tells us that the fathers andmothers of the race who framed the ritual entered India fromthe north-west, and settled in the land watered by tlie rains ofthe south-west monsoon, for the western enclosing stick (A) isthe first that is laid down, and it is this which is first touchedby Urvashi, the fire-mother of the race, before it is placedon the altar, while it is the Northern stick wh
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