Fwd: The Afghan Connection

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Afghanistan is under intense turmoil today. Yet it enjoyed close

ties with mainland India for millennia.

 

Afghanistan was part and parcel of the socio-religious-political

ethos of India. Close cultural ties of Afghanistan and India go back

to 4500 B.C. It enjoyed the cultural and trade relations with the

Indus-Saraswati culture that flourished in the Indus valley. The

deities of the Vedic culture like Apam Napat, Ahirbudhnya, Maruts

and the lost recension, the Bashkala samhita of the Rg Veda can be

linked to Afghanistan. The Arya-Dasa conflicts in the Rig Veda

occured in the Seistan province of southern Afghanistan. The purs

destroyed by Indra were the mounds or butts formed in the region due

to the erosive action of Bad-i-sad-o-bist, ie. wind of 120 days.

 

Many tribes of Afghanistan today are traced back to the Vedic

period. They participated in the famous Ten kings war of the Rig

Veda lore. The name of the nation itself is rooted in the ancient

Indian literature. The celebrated text of Brhatsamhita by

Varahamihira (6th century A.D.) refers to a group of people named

avagana along with Huns and Chinese (brhatsamhita 11.61) which in

later period turned into Avagana and then to Afghan. The Afghan

identity is closely associated with the Sanskrit origin. The

Pakhtoons are the most dominating tribal group in Afghanistan. The

oldest text of the world, the Rig Veda refers to the tribal enemies

of the king Sudasa who had formed a federation against the king. The

tribal federation against the king Sudasa included Pakhtha,

Bhalanasa, Alinasa, Visani and Siva tribes.

 

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