Environmental Issues in Vedic, Epic and Purāṇic Literature (A Study of Forest Fire Anecdotes)

Abstract

The need for this research is current trends in environmental changes and degradation. Climate change, floods, droughts, Pollution, Environmental degradation and resource depletion, bio-diversity loss etc are the outcome of anthropogenic exploitation of natural resources. There is a sudden rise in the Green House Gases in the atmosphere of earth and hence the average temperature of the planet earth is rapidly uprising for the past hundred years. This, in turn, is responsible for the weather changes, Sea Level Changes, Land Use Patterns – collectively termed as climate change. Environmental Pollution is a major challenge for the World in the years to come. Massive burning of woods in Amazon of Brazil and Indonesia Archipelago for the unending human greed, the recurrent seasonal forest fires in the woods of California, the trans-boundary Asian Brown Hedge formed in between Earth and Ether of South and South East Asia are the environmental issues of prime concern for this decade. This paper deals with the solution to modern pollution problems in the Vedic, Epic and Puranic Literature. It also explores the sustainable mechanism as mentioned in the above-mentioned pieces of literature. These Forest Fire anecdotes are described, analysed, critically discussed and arrived at a conclusive resolve of the research problem.