Evidence of colonization of Egypt by ancient India...

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Evidence of the colonization of Egypt by ancient India...

 

My dear Nikita and Sanjna: Niranjan Shah,--------------- So far we saw that

people from India using Indus Valley area and coasting along Mekran, Oman, Yemen

and Ethiopia migrated to land now known as Nubia and Egypt. They carried their

culture and named this new country, rivers, and mountains in Sanskrit. We also

saw that these people had developed shipbuilding and navigation since very

remote period for ocean travel so that they can carry their culture to new

lands. Here we have more evidence of this cultural colonization of Egypt by

ancient India. Author Paul William Roberts states in " Empire of The Soul: Some

Journeys in India. " " Recent research and scholarship make it increasingly

possible to believe that the Vedic era was the lost civilization whose legacy

the Egyptians and the Indians inherited. There must have been one. There are too

many similarities between hieroglyphic texts and Vedic ones, these in turn

echoed in somewhat diluted form and a confused fashion by the authors of

Babylonian texts and the Old Testament. " Max Muller had also observed that the

mythology of Egyptians is wholly founded on Vedic traditions. Eusebius, a Greek

writer, has also recorded that the early Ethiopians emigrated from the Indus

river and first settled in the vicinity of Egypt. Louis Jacolliot (1837-1890),

who worked in French India as a government official and was at one time

President of the Court in Chandranagar, translated numerous Vedic hymns, the

Manusmriti, and the Tamil work, Kural. This French savant and author of La Bible

Dans L'Inde says: " With such congruence before us, no one, I imagine, will

appear to contest the purely Hindu origin of Egypt.... Friedrich Wilhelm,

Freiherr von Bissing (1873-1956) wrote in Prehistoricsche Topfen aus Indien and

Aegypten: " The land of Punt in the Egyptian ethnological traditions has been

identified by the scholars with the Malabar coast of Deccan. From this land

ebony, and other rich woods, incense, balsam, precious metals, etc. used to be

imported into Egypt. " As mentioned in W.H. Schoff writes in " Periplus of The

Erythreans " by W.H. Schoff, Colonel Speake says: " All our previous information,

concerning the hydrography of these regions, originated with the ancient Hindus,

who told it to the priests of the Nile; and all these busy Egyptian geographers,

who disseminated their knowledge with a view to be famous for their

long-sightedness, in solving the mystery which enshrouded the source of their

holy river, were so many hypothetical humbugs. The Hindu traders had a firm

basis to stand upon through their intercourse with the Abyssinians. Colonel

Rigby now gave me a most interesting paper, with a map attached to it, about the

Nile and the Mountains of the Moon. Lieutenant Wilford wrote it, from the

" Purans " of the Ancient Hindus. As it exemplifies, to a certain extent, the

supposition I formerly arrived at concerning the Mounta-ins of the Moon being

associated with the country of the Moon, I would fain draw the attention of the

reader of my travels to the volume of the Asiatic Researches in which it was

published. It is remarkable that the Hindus have christened the source of the

Nile Amara, which is the name of a country at the north-east corner of the

Victoria N'yanza. This, I think, shows clearly, that the ancient Hindus must

have had some kind of communication with both the northern and southern ends of

the Victoria N'yanza. " Let pioneer Indologist and Sanskri-tist Sir William Jones

conclude in Asiatic Researches, Volume I: " Of the cursory observations on the

Hindus, which it would require volumes to expand and illustrate, this is the

result, that they had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians

and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians, or Goths,

and Celts, the Chinese, Japanese, and Peruvians. "

 

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