08-01-2005, 12:58 AM
<b>The Great and Ancient Hindu-Mayan Nexus.
Can we retrace it? Can we revive it?</b>
It is notable that the zenith of Maya civilization was reached at a time when India also had attained an unparalleled peak during the Gupta period which preceded the Mayan classical age of 320 AD by more than a century. Indian astronomy indicates that Latin America was known to ancient Indians who called it Pataladesa.the Surya Siddhanta a textbook of astronomy composed before 500AD identifies and describes Pataladesa in very clear and definite terms. Alexander Von Humboldt who spent fifty years doing research on ancient America stated â It is surprising to find towards the end of the fifteenth century in a world we now call ânewâ the ancient institutions ,the religious ideas of Asia appear to belong to the first dawn of civilization â. Hindus were mighty navigators and pioneers of cultures a thousand years before the birth of Columbus.Thier large seaworthy ships could carry hundreds of passengers and were certainly capable of proceeding to Mexico and Peru by crossing the Pacific. Indian ships were superior to any made in Europe right up until the eighteenth century.
Indian Hindu-Buddhist civilization of South-East Asia in Mexico and particularly amongst the Maya is incredibly strong and has already disturbed isolationist scholars and historians. Stylized figures of fish found at Chichen Itza evoke such a combination of highly specific details that cannot be accidental. It is suggestive of the existence of some kind of relationship between Mayan Art and not only Buddhist art in general but the school of Amarvati of the second century AD in Particular. The Maya, Toltec, Aztec and Inca are the best know of all Asoamerican civilizations. The Mayans were possibly the earliest people to found a civilization there. They moved from the Mexican Plateau into Guatemala. The archeological remains of ancient Mayan civilization of Mexico are lying scattered in parts of Yucatan, Campede, Tabasco and the Eastern half of Chipas and the whole of Hondouras.In a temple in Guatemala is a statue of an incarnation of Vishnu as Kurma, the tortoise. The sculpture is richly detailed and strongly suggests that it might have been wrought with Hindu hands. Mayan and Aztec architecture styles are remarkably similar to those in India and South East Asia. The similarities between Indian Temples and AsoAmerican pyramids as well as attributes of certain Hindu deities and the Mayan pantheon are impressive. The Hindu God Kubera was God of the North. The Guate in Guate-mala is the only way the Mayans could pronounce Kubare.Mala was one of the seven islands of the Antara-Dwipa of God Vishnu.Anatara means âas distantâ, another country, in the middle .Kuvere-Mala (Guatemala) is also part of the Mayan lands known as Nacaste derived from Sanskrit Naga-Shetra (Land of the Nagas), one of the largest tribes in South America the Gurani derived that collective name from Kurvani âKuberaâsâ people. The sun (Kuarehy) Kuver is the home of the Gurani supreme God Tupa, who may derive from Suva, a name for Shiva.
Indian religious art and culture seem naturally to have exercised an extraordinary fascination over the indigenous peoples of all these territories no doubt owing to the attraction offered by Hinduism and Buddhism. India was unique in that her hoary spiritual civilization spread through the prestige of her magnificent culture as opposed to the barrel of a Spanish gun or the blade of steel wielded by the aggressive European colonizers on thousand years later when Columbus encountered the ancient Mayans on his third voyage to the Americas. The scope and magnitude of Hindu influence in the Americas is at once startling. The rich diffusion of Hindu culture is common to Mexico, Guatemala, Java and Indochina in the form of the pyramids. Maya and Aztec architectural styles are remarkably similar to those in India and South Asia. Baron Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859) an eminent Prussian scholar and anthropologist was one of the first to postulate the Asiatic origins of the Indians civilizations of the Americas. Dr.Robert Heine Gledern , an anthropologist stated that the influences of the Hindu-Buddhist culture of South East Asia in Mexico and particularly amongst the Maya are remarkably strong and have already disturbed the same Americanists who donât like to see them but cannot deny them.The emigrant races of India took with them wherever they went their system of measurement of time,their local Gods, their customs including games such as Patolli or Pachisis in Mexican as well as dances and ceremonials. The belief in the four Hindu Yugas or epochs, the existence in America of the Hindu Gurukula scheme of education ,The Hindu Panchayat system, the Bazaar economy, the soma yagna (sacrifice),the worship of Indira,Trinity and Hindu Gods. Both Hindus and AsioAmericans used similar items in their worship rituals and maintained a concept of cosmological seasons extending over thousands of years. Another scholar by the name of Ramon Mena,author of Mexican archaeology called the Nahuatl,Zapoteca and Mayan languagesâ writing and the anthropological type as well as their personal adornments of Hindu origin and still yet another scholar Ambassador Miles Poindexter called Mayan civilization âunquestionably Hinduâ. There are plenty of architectural elements and other data to show that ancient American civilizations date as far back as twelve to fifteen thousand years ago. It has been postulated that Aryan words and peoples came to the Americas by the Island chains of Polynesia. It is striking that through the long succession of centuries the word for boat in Mexico is âcatamaranâ a south Indian Tamilian word.
The Mayans had attained the highest maturity in art,craft,sculpture and hieroglyphs.Thier magnificent achievements in social,economic,political and religious fields, their calendar and hieroglyphic writings ,reasons of the sudden collapse of their classical culture everywhere in Mesoamerican are yet still a mystery although to quote Glyn Daniel in his book â Civilizationsâ within fifteen years between 1519 to 1533 the Western world discovered and brutally destroyed three civilizations, the Aztecs of Mexico and the Mayans of Yucatan, Guatemala and Inca of Peru. The âMayaâ Indians had spent thousands of years in building their magnificent monuments at Mayapan, Palenque, Copan, Tikal, Kaminalijuyu and Piedras Negas all links to their Hindu culture depicting a panel of the great Indian epic Ramayana and about which most Mexican historians are resolutely silent.
Mayans preferred to settle in that part of Central America which was unhealthy but rich in precious stones and minerals and like their Hindu forefathers prospected precious mineral stones and gold and handcrafted symbolic ornaments from them as well as heavily studded and jeweled deities. Mayan deities were a pantheon of divine manifestation of creation and even the fanatical Catholic Bishop Diego De Land who was a Spanish inquisitor who presided over the ruthless destruction and systematic annihilation of all sacred books and literature containing many invaluable codices of astronomy, art, poetry, literature, had to admit his admiration of the Mayan Temple architecture and their having Godâs representing even the remotest aspects of creation such as insects, animals and plants which were worshipped as part of the Divine. The Mayan elephant which was detected in 1850âs on a sculptural pillar at Copan was regarded by those who favor diffusion of Hindu civilization influence as an Indian elephant which cannot be traced to the local tradition and provides incontrovertible evidence that Mayans were familiar with Indian mythology. The Mayan long nosed God is believed to be the elephant-headed God Ganesha.The art style is discernibly Indian as in no other religion in the world are deities of this type worshipped. In view of so many fundamental conceptions and detail in mythology, ritual, iconography, architecture, religious beliefs and customs with evidence of migration it appears incredible that the isolationists should continue to insist on the independent evolution of Asioamerican civilization. An interesting point of detail is that the Mayan priestly class âBalamâ is a pronunciation of the Hindu âBrahmâ.
The syncretic encompassing nature of Hindu civilization never imposed its influence by the force of arms of aggressive proselytization but radiated its glorious civilization by the prestige of its advanced spiritual philosophy and rich diversity of accomplished arts, voluminous literature, science ,technological superiority and lofty and illuminating principles and policy which was to always enrich the lands in which the ancient Hindus encountered and gently enhance the existing peoples not by coercion but by enlightenment. This is why Hindu culture melded in a subtle and sublime process with the ancient indigenous cultures of the Asoamerica.
Can we retrace it? Can we revive it?</b>
It is notable that the zenith of Maya civilization was reached at a time when India also had attained an unparalleled peak during the Gupta period which preceded the Mayan classical age of 320 AD by more than a century. Indian astronomy indicates that Latin America was known to ancient Indians who called it Pataladesa.the Surya Siddhanta a textbook of astronomy composed before 500AD identifies and describes Pataladesa in very clear and definite terms. Alexander Von Humboldt who spent fifty years doing research on ancient America stated â It is surprising to find towards the end of the fifteenth century in a world we now call ânewâ the ancient institutions ,the religious ideas of Asia appear to belong to the first dawn of civilization â. Hindus were mighty navigators and pioneers of cultures a thousand years before the birth of Columbus.Thier large seaworthy ships could carry hundreds of passengers and were certainly capable of proceeding to Mexico and Peru by crossing the Pacific. Indian ships were superior to any made in Europe right up until the eighteenth century.
Indian Hindu-Buddhist civilization of South-East Asia in Mexico and particularly amongst the Maya is incredibly strong and has already disturbed isolationist scholars and historians. Stylized figures of fish found at Chichen Itza evoke such a combination of highly specific details that cannot be accidental. It is suggestive of the existence of some kind of relationship between Mayan Art and not only Buddhist art in general but the school of Amarvati of the second century AD in Particular. The Maya, Toltec, Aztec and Inca are the best know of all Asoamerican civilizations. The Mayans were possibly the earliest people to found a civilization there. They moved from the Mexican Plateau into Guatemala. The archeological remains of ancient Mayan civilization of Mexico are lying scattered in parts of Yucatan, Campede, Tabasco and the Eastern half of Chipas and the whole of Hondouras.In a temple in Guatemala is a statue of an incarnation of Vishnu as Kurma, the tortoise. The sculpture is richly detailed and strongly suggests that it might have been wrought with Hindu hands. Mayan and Aztec architecture styles are remarkably similar to those in India and South East Asia. The similarities between Indian Temples and AsoAmerican pyramids as well as attributes of certain Hindu deities and the Mayan pantheon are impressive. The Hindu God Kubera was God of the North. The Guate in Guate-mala is the only way the Mayans could pronounce Kubare.Mala was one of the seven islands of the Antara-Dwipa of God Vishnu.Anatara means âas distantâ, another country, in the middle .Kuvere-Mala (Guatemala) is also part of the Mayan lands known as Nacaste derived from Sanskrit Naga-Shetra (Land of the Nagas), one of the largest tribes in South America the Gurani derived that collective name from Kurvani âKuberaâsâ people. The sun (Kuarehy) Kuver is the home of the Gurani supreme God Tupa, who may derive from Suva, a name for Shiva.
Indian religious art and culture seem naturally to have exercised an extraordinary fascination over the indigenous peoples of all these territories no doubt owing to the attraction offered by Hinduism and Buddhism. India was unique in that her hoary spiritual civilization spread through the prestige of her magnificent culture as opposed to the barrel of a Spanish gun or the blade of steel wielded by the aggressive European colonizers on thousand years later when Columbus encountered the ancient Mayans on his third voyage to the Americas. The scope and magnitude of Hindu influence in the Americas is at once startling. The rich diffusion of Hindu culture is common to Mexico, Guatemala, Java and Indochina in the form of the pyramids. Maya and Aztec architectural styles are remarkably similar to those in India and South Asia. Baron Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859) an eminent Prussian scholar and anthropologist was one of the first to postulate the Asiatic origins of the Indians civilizations of the Americas. Dr.Robert Heine Gledern , an anthropologist stated that the influences of the Hindu-Buddhist culture of South East Asia in Mexico and particularly amongst the Maya are remarkably strong and have already disturbed the same Americanists who donât like to see them but cannot deny them.The emigrant races of India took with them wherever they went their system of measurement of time,their local Gods, their customs including games such as Patolli or Pachisis in Mexican as well as dances and ceremonials. The belief in the four Hindu Yugas or epochs, the existence in America of the Hindu Gurukula scheme of education ,The Hindu Panchayat system, the Bazaar economy, the soma yagna (sacrifice),the worship of Indira,Trinity and Hindu Gods. Both Hindus and AsioAmericans used similar items in their worship rituals and maintained a concept of cosmological seasons extending over thousands of years. Another scholar by the name of Ramon Mena,author of Mexican archaeology called the Nahuatl,Zapoteca and Mayan languagesâ writing and the anthropological type as well as their personal adornments of Hindu origin and still yet another scholar Ambassador Miles Poindexter called Mayan civilization âunquestionably Hinduâ. There are plenty of architectural elements and other data to show that ancient American civilizations date as far back as twelve to fifteen thousand years ago. It has been postulated that Aryan words and peoples came to the Americas by the Island chains of Polynesia. It is striking that through the long succession of centuries the word for boat in Mexico is âcatamaranâ a south Indian Tamilian word.
The Mayans had attained the highest maturity in art,craft,sculpture and hieroglyphs.Thier magnificent achievements in social,economic,political and religious fields, their calendar and hieroglyphic writings ,reasons of the sudden collapse of their classical culture everywhere in Mesoamerican are yet still a mystery although to quote Glyn Daniel in his book â Civilizationsâ within fifteen years between 1519 to 1533 the Western world discovered and brutally destroyed three civilizations, the Aztecs of Mexico and the Mayans of Yucatan, Guatemala and Inca of Peru. The âMayaâ Indians had spent thousands of years in building their magnificent monuments at Mayapan, Palenque, Copan, Tikal, Kaminalijuyu and Piedras Negas all links to their Hindu culture depicting a panel of the great Indian epic Ramayana and about which most Mexican historians are resolutely silent.
Mayans preferred to settle in that part of Central America which was unhealthy but rich in precious stones and minerals and like their Hindu forefathers prospected precious mineral stones and gold and handcrafted symbolic ornaments from them as well as heavily studded and jeweled deities. Mayan deities were a pantheon of divine manifestation of creation and even the fanatical Catholic Bishop Diego De Land who was a Spanish inquisitor who presided over the ruthless destruction and systematic annihilation of all sacred books and literature containing many invaluable codices of astronomy, art, poetry, literature, had to admit his admiration of the Mayan Temple architecture and their having Godâs representing even the remotest aspects of creation such as insects, animals and plants which were worshipped as part of the Divine. The Mayan elephant which was detected in 1850âs on a sculptural pillar at Copan was regarded by those who favor diffusion of Hindu civilization influence as an Indian elephant which cannot be traced to the local tradition and provides incontrovertible evidence that Mayans were familiar with Indian mythology. The Mayan long nosed God is believed to be the elephant-headed God Ganesha.The art style is discernibly Indian as in no other religion in the world are deities of this type worshipped. In view of so many fundamental conceptions and detail in mythology, ritual, iconography, architecture, religious beliefs and customs with evidence of migration it appears incredible that the isolationists should continue to insist on the independent evolution of Asioamerican civilization. An interesting point of detail is that the Mayan priestly class âBalamâ is a pronunciation of the Hindu âBrahmâ.
The syncretic encompassing nature of Hindu civilization never imposed its influence by the force of arms of aggressive proselytization but radiated its glorious civilization by the prestige of its advanced spiritual philosophy and rich diversity of accomplished arts, voluminous literature, science ,technological superiority and lofty and illuminating principles and policy which was to always enrich the lands in which the ancient Hindus encountered and gently enhance the existing peoples not by coercion but by enlightenment. This is why Hindu culture melded in a subtle and sublime process with the ancient indigenous cultures of the Asoamerica.