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There are references to eastern and western oceans in the Satapatha

Brahmana, which indicate acquaintance with the Bay of Bengal and


the Arabian Sea in the later Vedic era.
The Deserts
The Rig Vedic Aryans were not familiar with any kind of desert.
However, an implied reference to Maru as the country of desert
mounds near Kurukshetra has been traced in Taittiriya Aryanka

The Aryans used the term Sapta Saindhavas as the region


where they settled down. They used this term in the context
of country. The country of the Aryan was also designated as
Aryavarta in the latter Scriptures. The Rig-Vedic Aryans had
not yet established settlements in the southern India.
The Sapta Saindhavas country of the Rig Vedic period was
bounded by the Himalayas and Tibet in the east, Turkistan in
the north, Afghanistan, in the west and the Aravallis in the
south.
a cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a
strong center of low atmospheric pressure,
counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and
clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed
from above
Water crisis is
the lack of
fresh water
resources to
meet the
standard
water
demand. Two
types of water
scarcity have
been de ned:
physical or
economic
water scarcity.
Physical water
scarcity is
where there is
not enough
water to meet
all demands,
including that
needed for
ecosystems to
function
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