aryavartta

Updated: May 10, 2025

It is only five years since he appeared on the arena of great reforms, but till then, he lived, entirely secluded, in a jungle, like the ancient gymnosophists mentioned by the Greek and Latin authors. At this time he was studying the chief philosophical systems of the "Aryavartta" and the occult meaning of the Vedas with the help of mystics and anchorites.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan