05-20-2006, 12:31 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-agnivayu+May 20 2006, 03:08 AM-->QUOTE(agnivayu @ May 20 2006, 03:08 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nevertheless, if a Euro can law claim to the entire Western Hemisphere and Australia, and Arabs can claim wide swaths of land in Asia and Africa, certainly Hindus need to be more ambitious in extending our reach.
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and as per the purans, arya vartha extended not an inch south of the vindhyas. even maharashtra falls outside it. marathis came from ayodhya and other places.
also read
http://northernway.org/school/onwarticles.html
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er, i meant to point out that aryavarta as explicitly defined in the Puran was confined to the triangular region as described.
in 100 years time aryavarta may extend to all english speaking countries possibly - still it wont alter the fact that originally it referred to the land noirth of the vindhyas.
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and as per the purans, arya vartha extended not an inch south of the vindhyas. even maharashtra falls outside it. marathis came from ayodhya and other places.
also read
http://northernway.org/school/onwarticles.html
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er, i meant to point out that aryavarta as explicitly defined in the Puran was confined to the triangular region as described.
in 100 years time aryavarta may extend to all english speaking countries possibly - still it wont alter the fact that originally it referred to the land noirth of the vindhyas.