Hinduising History

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>"Ashok Chowgule" >"Ashok Chowgule" >"Vrn Davan" >Subject:

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Hinduising History >Author: Saticurus >Publication: Organiser >January 7,

2001

Lopez, Spanish author of TheAryan Races in Peru writes : "Every page of Peruvian

poetrybears the imprint of Ramayana and Mahabharata."

>Introduction: Conspiracy against Columbus, nexus against >Newton > > >Indian

Express reporters certainly deserve to be on the staff >of India's biggest

English-language daily newspaper. They are >thorough professionals. That is, as

journalists they are >thorough practitioners of the ignorant profession.

Satiricus >is also a journalist, but being far below the standards of >Express

excellence, he reads books to improve his ignorant >mind. That, fortunately, is

not necessary for these gentlemen. >Their minds are already at the acme of

improvement through >ignorance, and there is really nothing more that they can

>unlearn. Some days ago this was admirably demonstrated by the >newspaper's

Chandigarh reporter in his fairy tale. That was >printed by the paper as his

scholarly ridicule of RSS-made >history in the publication circulated during

that >organisation's current all-India mass contact drive. Satiricus >had been

happy to write about that delightful derision, but >what makes him still

happier is to see that what this >"truth-involves-us-all" newspaper's

Chandigarh reporter can >do, its Lucknow reporter can do better. Regretfully

repeating >the fell fact that "world's history has been rewritten" by the

>wretched RSS, the learned man from Lucknow has devoted an >entire opening

paragraph to what fantastic claims the Sangh >makes. > >Detailing the devilry

the reporter writes : "It was an Indian, >and not Christopher Columbus, who

discovered America. It was >Indians Aryabhatta and Bhaskaracharya, and not

Newton, who >first came to know about the gravitational force. Sanskrit is >the

mother of all European languages." All this is, of course, >perfectly

preposterous. But what is far more preposterous is >that quite a few foreigners

masquerading as outstanding >scholars say the same thing. For instance, before

Columbus >discovered America there should have been no America. But

>surprisingly enough there are people who actually say America >existed before

Columbus, that it was highly civilised, and it >was Indians who had done the

civilising. The official history >of Mexico officially admits that "those who

arrived first on >the continent later to be known as America were groups of men

>driven by the mighty current that set out from India". If a >man by name I.S.

Muthanna can be believed in spite of his >being an Indian, he has written a

whole book on Indians in >North America in which he writes that Indians had

reached >North America 5000 years ago. Lopez, Spanish author of The >Aryan

Races in Peru writes : "Every page of Peruvian poetry >bears the imprint of

Ramayana and Mahabharata." > >To cap it all, documents published by the

National Geographic >magazine document many striking parallels in Hindu and

>pre-Columbus American art, architecture, religious symbols, >cosmological

ideas, social structure, vocabulary, even games, >and finally the

not-so-coincidental use of the Hindu-invented >zero in the mathematics of both

cultures. What on earth is all >this? Satiricus can only call it a conspiracy

against >Columbus. Now for the nefarious nexus against Newton. >Satiricus can

understand the RSS claiming that Newton was not >the discoverer of gravitation,

because he expects nothing >better from the Sanghwalas. But what can he say when

the >Jewish Encyclopaedia says the same thing? It actually mentions

>Bhaskaracharya by name and says in his treatise >Siddhantashiromani

Bhaskaracharya has mentioned a force of >attraction resembling gravity,

discovered centuries later by >Newton. > >Then there is also this foreign

fellow by name P. Johnstone >who wrote that gravitation was known to the

Indians before the >birth of Newton. The Indian Express epitome of all

knowledge >on earth sneers at upstarts like Aryabhatta and >Bhaskaracharya, but

Satiricus finds to his consternation that >even Will Durant writes deplorably

enough in his book The >Story of Civilisation that "India is the motherland...

of our >mathematics", and if Encyclopaedia Britannica is to be >believed,

Bhaskaracharya and Aryabhatta are the world's >original mathematicians. The

Encyclopaedia says Arithmetic was >discovered by Indians in the second century

BC and regards >Bhaskaracharya's treatise Lilavati as "the first book on

>modern Arithmetic". It further says : "In 499 AD Aryabhatta >finished his work

giving rules of Arithmetic", and also that >he "was one of the first to use

Algebra". Bhaskaracharya even >calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit

the sun and >stated that it was 365.258,756,484 days"! > >These figures make

Satiricus so dizzy that he cannot figure >out how our intellectuals (apart from

Express experts) can >understand how the RSS could brainwash Bhaskaracharya.

Finally >this claim that Sanskrit is the mother of all Indo-European

>languages. Now it is one thing for swayamsevak Satiricus to >make such a silly

claim, but what can one say when >non-swayamsevak Will Durant makes exactly the

same claim in >exactly the same words? For in his Story of Civilisation, the

>obdurate Durant writes: "Sanskrit is the mother of >Indo-European languages."

What makes things far worse is that >this one-line claim has a hoary history

behind it, which gives >even the English language a Vedic ancestry :

Millenniums ago, >in the Rigvedic age, there was a great battle, called

>Dasharajna, between a Vedic king called Sudas and a >confederacy of ten

peoples with two group names, Anu and >Druhyu. > >They were defeated, after

which the Druhyu migrated from the >Vedic heartland and spread to the

North-West, right up to the >borders of Europe. One of these peoples came to be

known as >Druids, a distortion of Druhyu, and later as Celts. These >Celts spoke

Celtic, which was spoken before the Christian era >over a wide area of Europe,

from Spain to Britain. The >original languages that the ten peoples, including

Druhyu, of >the Dasharajna war, developed into proto-proto-Indo-European

>languages, some of which became extinct, like Latin, while >others developed

into extant, spoken languages, including >English! Good God! Does that mean

English is a distorted form >of Sanskrit? Looking to the distorted English that

the Indian >Express writes, Satiricus would tend to agree. But would that >make

the Sanskrit language the mother of all distortions? Only >poor Panini can say.

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