Fwd: Extracts from Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization

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hinducivilization , " mkelkar2003 " <swatimkelkar

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" Not surprisingly, the history of India as portrayed in modern

textbooks dominated by Western thinking is an embarrassment to the

Hindus that causes them to distrust their ancestors. It shows not a

noble indigenous people—which is not the traditional view—but nomads,

invaders, barbarian hordes weaving a tale of superstition, destruction

and deception—a view the non-Hindu groups can easily use for their own

benefit. If this were a scientifically proven fact, one would have to

live with it, but the facts actually are quite contrary.

Fortunately today, there is a revolution happening in the historical

interpretation of India. The Aryan invasion model is crumbling like a

house of cards. The Vedic view of ancient India is being

re-vindicated, not by wild speculation, but the most solid evidence

and combination of disciplines (Frawley 2006, p. x, in Foreword to

Rajaram 2006). "

" I (Rajaram) see Indology as a `period disciple' like eugenics (race

science) and colonial anthropological theories that were created

mainly to give a veneer of respectability to political and religious

motives. I see it as having two sides—racial and political. The two

became intermixed as in the case of German Nationalism, but continues

today in the guise of Indo-European studies (Rajaram 2006, p. xvi). "

" This (No horse at Harrapa argument) is demonstrably false. Horse

remains—both domestic and the wild variety—have been found at places

like Koldhiwa and Mahagara in the Interior India dating to before 6500

BC! These are Neolithic sites. The issue of horse has been blown out

proportion by scholars with a vested interest in preserving the

invasion theory and the non-indigenous basis of the Vedas and the

Vedic civilization (Rajaram 2006, p. 10, parenthesis added). "

" On the basis of a comparison of archaeology with the literary records

of India and Mesopotamia, K. D. Sethna and others have independently

shown that the Harrapan Civilization of c. 3000 to 2000 BC corresponds

also to the Sutra period of the Vedic literature. The Harrapans

carried on a brisk trade with the Sumerians who had their own empire

in the valleys of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in West Asia….

Sethna noted that the evidence of cotton in Sumeria and at Harrapan

sites, combined with references to cotton for the first time in the

Sutra literature imply that both Harrapan and the Summerian-Akkadian

civilizations belong to the Sutra period (Rajaram 2006, p. 21). "

" The question next is who really are the Dravidians? As far as the

Indian sources go Dravida is simply a geographical term describing

roughly the geographical south or Peninsular India. Traditionally,

the panca dravida Brahmins are—Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka,

Andhra, and Dravida. These refer to the people living (roughly) in

the present day states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra

Pradesh and Tamil Nadu (and Kerala), (Rajaram 2006, p. 56). "

" In the recently published Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's

Undeciphered Scripts, Andrew Robinson drawing upon Parpola attacks,

Jha's decipherment as: " an unashamedly nationalistic `decipherment' by

a North Indian. "

In other words, Jha's work should be rejected not on scholarly grounds

because he is a north Indian! This is not far removed from the

position taken by some `scientists " in Nazi Germany who rejected

Einstein's Theory of Relatively because its creator was a Jew (Rajaram

2006, pp. 59-60). "

" What is interesting is that some archaeological evidence is now

beginning to surface, lending support to the idea that Vedic India had

a strong maritime component. At an international conference on

seafaring recently held in New Delhi, several papers were presented

showing that Indian cotton was exported to South and Central America

as far back as 4000 BC. According to Sean McGrail, a marine

archaeologist at Oxford University, seagoing ships called `clinkers'

that were thought to be of Viking origin were known in India a good

deal earlier (Rajaram 2006, p. 66). "

" F. E. Parigiter observed long ago:

These facts prove (1) that there was an outflow of people from India

before the fifteenth century BC; (2) that they brought Aryan gods from

India; (3) that therefore Aryans and their gods existed in India

before the sixteenth century; and (4) that the Aryans had entered

India earlier still. These facts and conclusions are hardly

reconcilable with the current theory about the entrance of the Aryans

into NW [northwest] India…

But these facts and conclusions are in full agreement with what

tradition says about the outspread of the Druhyus beyond the

north-west of India..(Parigeter 1922; pp 301-302 in Rajaram 2006, p. 78). "

" When mathematicians Kruskal, Dyen and Black applied statistical tests

to the languages that make up the Indo-European family the results

were extraordinary. (Kruskal, Dyen, and Black 1971.) The most

important member of the Indo-European family is Sanskrit, but their

analysis threw up a major contradiction: Indian and Iranian languages

failed the grouping test! This is a bombshell, for according to

Indo-European linguistics, Indo-Iranian is the lynchpin of the whole

discipline, but the one quantitative test that was applied to the

hypothesis discredited it (Rajaram 2006, p. 80). "

" .. the motions of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500

years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and

Meyer (used in Europe in the nineteenth century). The Indian tables

give the same annual variation of moon as that discovered by Tycho

Brahe—a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also the

Arabs who followed the calculations of the school.. The Hindu system

of astronomy are by far the oldest and that, from which the Egyptians,

Greeks, Romans and even the Jews derive the knowledge (French

astronomer Bailey 1736-93, as quoted by Rajaram 2006, p. 133). "

" .. British astronomer John Playfair estimated that Hindu astronomy

must go back to 5000 BC; I believe it must be at least a thousand

years older than that. Both David Frawley and Lokmanya Tilak have

found references in the Rigveda that point to dates before 6000 BC

(Rajaram 2006, p. 134). "

" A medieval Arab scholar Sa'id ibn Ahmad al-Andalusi (1029-1070) wrote

in his Tabaquat al-`umam, on of the earliest books on the history of

sciences:

" The first nation to have cultivated science is India. .. India is

known for the wisdom of its people. Over many centuries, all the

kings of the past have recognized the ability of the Indians in all

the braches of knowledge. .. The Indians not to all nations for many

centuries are the metal (essence) of wisdom, the source of fairness

and objectivity. They are people of sublime pensiveness, universal

apologues, and useful and rare inventions. " (quoted by Rajaram 2006,

p. 135). "

Rajaram, N. S. (2006). Sarasvati river and the Vedic civilization:

history, science and politics. New Dehli: Aditya Prakashan, ISBN:

81-7742-066-6

 

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