Journal of the Gujarat Research Society April 1939

The Report of the Director of Public Instruction of the Bombay Presidency (1937) furnises the following figures for the year 1935-36 the available figures for the Baroda State are those for the year 1934-35. [...] The object of this article is to explain and interpret the possible direction of Aryan migration on the plains and the river valleys of the mainland of Gujarat. [...] All the24 JOURNAL OF THE GUJARAT RESEARCH SOCIETY same we find a number of Rishis of outstanding merit associated with the plains of Gujarat from the topmost pinnacle of the Mount Abu to the adjoining plains near Siddhapur and Palanpur the upper courses of a network of rivers large and small towards the east and the south-east in the terrtories of the northern Gujarat. [...] A large number of villages have their names with a prefex which transcribe the symbol of Shiva's form in worship.2 The northern tracts and especially the barren hills presented the phenomenon of the worship of Goddess a form of worship posibly strange to the Vedic lore.3 The Aryans were patriarchal4 while the `Asuras' were matriarchal. [...] Many of the names of the Rishis as also the holy places once associated with the course of the Saraswati are now extinct while some of them are left to link with the upper courses of the rivers draining the the north Gujarat plains.5 In view of such a continuous long course of the Sarawati from the Himalayas right upto Gujarat in its lower basin 2. qljTUT MriT4U.