Curiously, in Vedic Sanskrit, the Hindu Kush mountain range ... them warm in the winter months when the sun was not visible. Soma! Early scholars wondered what this Soma was leading to rather ...

The Soma plant (ephedra) grows in the dry mountains ... five centuries after the collapse of the Harappan cities? By 800 BC, Vedic literature starts describing rituals such as Agnicayana rituals ...