12-10-2005, 12:51 PM
so alexander predates chandragupta or is it the other way round??
as for hindu and sindhu... its right.
the persian h is the indian s.
so sapt-sindhu became haft hindu.
the people of sind are not persians. they are indians who live in the estuary of the sindhu (indus) river. and they call themselves sindhi and their land sind.
the persians meanwhile call all the people living on this side of the sindhu river as the hindus.
even the name india comes from that. the greeko-romans took the persian name for indians (ie.hindu) and then droped the h (very common in romance languages to have the h rendered silent) and added the -ia as they do to so many other names. (eg - rus-ia= russia, chaldees-ia = chaldea)
as for hindu and sindhu... its right.
the persian h is the indian s.
so sapt-sindhu became haft hindu.
the people of sind are not persians. they are indians who live in the estuary of the sindhu (indus) river. and they call themselves sindhi and their land sind.
the persians meanwhile call all the people living on this side of the sindhu river as the hindus.
even the name india comes from that. the greeko-romans took the persian name for indians (ie.hindu) and then droped the h (very common in romance languages to have the h rendered silent) and added the -ia as they do to so many other names. (eg - rus-ia= russia, chaldees-ia = chaldea)