01-30-2006, 11:03 AM
Hello, I am new to the board. I have been reading the whole rigveda/AIT/AMT/Indus-Saraswati civilzation theme for a few months now and I really think that there are some interesting events mentioned in the rig veda which may help calrify/explain some of the genetic similarities between Indians and east europeans.
The Rigveda is the sory of the bharatas but it does not exclude the presence of other tribes/people on the Indian subcontinent at the time. It mentions five bharta tribes - the Purus, Anus, Dhruyus, Yadus and the Turvasas (spellings?). Depending on which interpreptation you believe, the Dhruyus were supposed to be a tribe in the northwest corner and not much is mentioned about them. It is believed that they were the first to be expelled after being defeated in a war with the other tribes. It is conceivable that this tribe made its way thorugh central asia into eastern europe.
After the battle of Sudas and the 10 kings (in Punjab) the Anus were belived to be expelled and may have constituted the Indo-Iranian branch. Some of the tribes within the Anus were known as persus, parthavas etc.
If one were to believe the above account/interpretation it is not difficult to account for similarities between Indians and east europeans. Ofcourse, the above hypothesis would be greatly strenghtened if the timeline for the creation of the rigveda based on astronomical events/ river saraswati etc was more accepted as opposed to the timeline proposed by Nazi scholars (Muller, Witzel etc).
I find it ironic that when it comes to Indian history the Nazi interpretation is still more acceptable that that proposed by indian (and now american) scholars.
On a completely different matter, does anyone have a good explanation of where the name "India" comes from. From what I have read, it is the hellenised version of "Hindu", which is in turn the persian word for "Sindhu". From the above reasoning it would appear that we are identifying ourselves using terminology used by Persians and Greeks to refer to people living on the other side of the the rives Sindhu (Indus). I would certainly appreciate input from anyone on this board if they have a different interpretation/explanation.
The Rigveda is the sory of the bharatas but it does not exclude the presence of other tribes/people on the Indian subcontinent at the time. It mentions five bharta tribes - the Purus, Anus, Dhruyus, Yadus and the Turvasas (spellings?). Depending on which interpreptation you believe, the Dhruyus were supposed to be a tribe in the northwest corner and not much is mentioned about them. It is believed that they were the first to be expelled after being defeated in a war with the other tribes. It is conceivable that this tribe made its way thorugh central asia into eastern europe.
After the battle of Sudas and the 10 kings (in Punjab) the Anus were belived to be expelled and may have constituted the Indo-Iranian branch. Some of the tribes within the Anus were known as persus, parthavas etc.
If one were to believe the above account/interpretation it is not difficult to account for similarities between Indians and east europeans. Ofcourse, the above hypothesis would be greatly strenghtened if the timeline for the creation of the rigveda based on astronomical events/ river saraswati etc was more accepted as opposed to the timeline proposed by Nazi scholars (Muller, Witzel etc).
I find it ironic that when it comes to Indian history the Nazi interpretation is still more acceptable that that proposed by indian (and now american) scholars.
On a completely different matter, does anyone have a good explanation of where the name "India" comes from. From what I have read, it is the hellenised version of "Hindu", which is in turn the persian word for "Sindhu". From the above reasoning it would appear that we are identifying ourselves using terminology used by Persians and Greeks to refer to people living on the other side of the the rives Sindhu (Indus). I would certainly appreciate input from anyone on this board if they have a different interpretation/explanation.