More evidence of colonization of Egypt
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My dear Nikita and Sanjna: Niranjan Shah,---------------
So far we saw that people from India using Indus Valley area and coasting along Mekran, Oman, Yemen and Ethiopia migrated to land now known as Nubia and Egypt. They carried their culture and named this new country, rivers, and mountains in Sanskrit. We also saw that these people had developed shipbuilding and navigation since very remote period for ocean travel so that they can carry their culture to new lands.
Here we have more evidence of this cultural colonization of Egypt by ancient India. Author Paul William Roberts states in âEmpire of The Soul: Some Journeys in India.â âRecent research and scholarship make it increasingly possible to believe that the Vedic era was the lost civilization whose legacy the Egyptians and the Indians inherited. There must have been one. There are too many similarities between hieroglyphic texts and Vedic ones, these in turn echoed in somewhat diluted form and a confused fashion by the authors of Babylonian texts and the Old Testament.â Max Muller had also observed that the mythology of Egyptians is wholly founded on Vedic traditions. Eusebius, a Greek writer, has also recorded that the early Ethiopians emigrated from the Indus river and first settled in the vicinity of Egypt.
Louis Jacolliot (1837-1890), who worked in French India as a government official and was at one time President of the Court in Chandranagar, translated numerous Vedic hymns, the Manusmriti, and the Tamil work, Kural. This French savant and author of La Bible Dans LâInde says: âWith such congruence before us, no one, I imagine, will appear to contest the purely Hindu origin of Egypt.... Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von Bissing (1873-1956) wrote in Prehistoricsche Topfen aus Indien and Aegypten: âThe land of Punt in the Egyptian ethnological traditions has been identified by the scholars with the Malabar coast of Deccan. From this land ebony, and other rich woods, incense, balsam, precious metals, etc. used to be imported into Egypt.â
As mentioned in W.H. Schoff writes in âPeriplus of The Erythreansâ by W.H. Schoff, Colonel Speake says: âAll our previous information, concerning the hydrography of these regions, originated with the ancient Hindus, who told it to the priests of the Nile; and all these busy Egyptian geographers, who disseminated their knowledge with a view to be famous for their long-sightedness, in solving the mystery which enshrouded the source of their holy river, were so many hypothetical humbugs. The Hindu traders had a firm basis to stand upon through their intercourse with the Abyssinians. Colonel Rigby now gave me a most interesting paper, with a map attached to it, about the Nile and the Mountains of the Moon. Lieutenant Wilford wrote it, from the âPuransâ of the Ancient Hindus. As it exemplifies, to a certain extent, the supposition I formerly arrived at concerning the Mounta-ins of the Moon being associated with the country of the Moon, I would fain draw the attention of the reader of my travels to the volume of the Asiatic Researches in which it was published. It is remarkable that the Hindus have christened the source of the Nile Amara, which is the name of a country at the north-east corner of the Victoria Nâyanza. This, I think, shows clearly, that the ancient Hindus must have had some kind of communication with both the northern and southern ends of the Victoria Nâyanza.â Let pioneer Indologist and Sanskri-tist Sir William Jones conclude in Asiatic Researches, Volume I: âOf the cursory observations on the Hindus, which it would require volumes to expand and illustrate, this is the result, that they had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians, or Goths, and Celts, the Chinese, Japanese, and Peruvians.â â Grandpaâs blessings.
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Extraordinary similarity between Indian, Egyptian cultural symbols
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Extraordinary similarity between Indian, Egyptian cultural symbols
By Niranjan Shah------ My dear Sanjna and Aryan, So far we have seen, how India had developed shipping and navigation in a very remote period, how they went from Dwarika or Sindh to Oman, Yemen, Ethiopia, Nubia and established kingdom of Egypt. Scholars have confirmed and provided evidence to support colonization of Egypt in India more than eight thousand years ago. We also saw that these people gave Sanskrit names to the new countries, rivers and mountain.
Sudha and Rashmi Chokshi of Detroit want to know about any cultural similarity between ancient India and Egypt. There is a striking similarity in use of lotus both in India and Egypt in relation to rivers. The flower so prolific in the imagery of both India and Egypt, grows out of the waters and opens its petals to be warmed by the sun: to be fertilized. From the earliest imagery in stone at Sanchi, of the first century BC in India, the lotus is associated with Sri, the Goddess of Fertility, who is later invoked as Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth and Abundance - being worshipped by Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus alike. Surya, signifying the fertilizing powers of the sun as he travels through the universe, holds the lotus in each hand.
In Egypt, the blue lotus appears in the earliest wall paintings of the VI Dynasty at the pyramids of Saqqara and in all funerary stelae. They are offered to the deceased, and held in the hand as thought they possess the power to revitalize them: to bring the deceased back to life. Carved out of blue lapis, along with the golden falcon and the sun that are the symbols of the God Horus, the lotus appears among the funerary treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamen. The lotus then, becomes a leitmotiv, a symbol most apt since its links the waters with the sun, the earth to sky - signifying fertility and regeneration in both Egypt and India. For, it is the seed of the plant which spells out the cycle of birth-decay-death and rebirth that forms the essential pattern of belief in these two riverine and agricultural societies.
In India and Egypt, the rivers Saraswati and Ganga and the Nile have brought sustenance to the land and nourished these civilizations which have survived more than five millennia. Both these rivers, the Ganga and the Nile, are personified and worshipped. They provide the dramatic backdrop against which myths and indeed created, to explain the topographic conditions of the land. From its source in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the Ganga flows some 2,500 kilometers, through the rich deltaic region which is known as Aryavarta, in the most densely populated area of India. Puranic myths recount the divine origins of the the Ganga, as she fell from heaven to earth in response to penance performed by the sage Bhagiratha: to bring the powers of water to an earth parched for over a thousand years.
At the seventh century seaport of Mahabalipuram in south India, this epic theme is entirely carved out of a granite rock spanning almost 50 feet. A natural cleft in the rock allows the rainwater to pour down in great torrents - as though this were the descent of a mighty river. Besides this cleft are carved the serpentine forms of the naga devatas (snake divinities), the sun and the moon, the gandharvas and kinnaras (celestial beings), the hunters and animals of the forest - all of them re-joicing in this great event where the divine rive is celebrated as the savior of all mankind. Here is a spectacular instance of the way in which myth is used to relate man to the environment. In this myth one senses an acute awareness of the ecological balance which needs to be maintained: of the vapors of the sea rising to the sky through heat, described in the myth as tapas, and then falling back to earth as the divine river, to flow down through the matted locks of Lord Shiva, on to the Himalayas, to flow back into the ocean. A
s in India, so in Egypt, the river is personified in human form. A sandstone relief from the temple of Rameses II at Abydos depicts Hapi, god of the Nile, holding a pair of blue lotus stalks in his hands; suspended from the Godâs right arm is the ankh, the symbol of life. Unlike the Ganga, the blue god of the Nile is male, but with one female breast to symbolize his role as nourisher - releasing the waters each year to provide sustenance to mankind. Grandpaâs Blessing<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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My dear Nikita and Sanjna: Niranjan Shah,---------------
So far we saw that people from India using Indus Valley area and coasting along Mekran, Oman, Yemen and Ethiopia migrated to land now known as Nubia and Egypt. They carried their culture and named this new country, rivers, and mountains in Sanskrit. We also saw that these people had developed shipbuilding and navigation since very remote period for ocean travel so that they can carry their culture to new lands.
Here we have more evidence of this cultural colonization of Egypt by ancient India. Author Paul William Roberts states in âEmpire of The Soul: Some Journeys in India.â âRecent research and scholarship make it increasingly possible to believe that the Vedic era was the lost civilization whose legacy the Egyptians and the Indians inherited. There must have been one. There are too many similarities between hieroglyphic texts and Vedic ones, these in turn echoed in somewhat diluted form and a confused fashion by the authors of Babylonian texts and the Old Testament.â Max Muller had also observed that the mythology of Egyptians is wholly founded on Vedic traditions. Eusebius, a Greek writer, has also recorded that the early Ethiopians emigrated from the Indus river and first settled in the vicinity of Egypt.
Louis Jacolliot (1837-1890), who worked in French India as a government official and was at one time President of the Court in Chandranagar, translated numerous Vedic hymns, the Manusmriti, and the Tamil work, Kural. This French savant and author of La Bible Dans LâInde says: âWith such congruence before us, no one, I imagine, will appear to contest the purely Hindu origin of Egypt.... Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von Bissing (1873-1956) wrote in Prehistoricsche Topfen aus Indien and Aegypten: âThe land of Punt in the Egyptian ethnological traditions has been identified by the scholars with the Malabar coast of Deccan. From this land ebony, and other rich woods, incense, balsam, precious metals, etc. used to be imported into Egypt.â
As mentioned in W.H. Schoff writes in âPeriplus of The Erythreansâ by W.H. Schoff, Colonel Speake says: âAll our previous information, concerning the hydrography of these regions, originated with the ancient Hindus, who told it to the priests of the Nile; and all these busy Egyptian geographers, who disseminated their knowledge with a view to be famous for their long-sightedness, in solving the mystery which enshrouded the source of their holy river, were so many hypothetical humbugs. The Hindu traders had a firm basis to stand upon through their intercourse with the Abyssinians. Colonel Rigby now gave me a most interesting paper, with a map attached to it, about the Nile and the Mountains of the Moon. Lieutenant Wilford wrote it, from the âPuransâ of the Ancient Hindus. As it exemplifies, to a certain extent, the supposition I formerly arrived at concerning the Mounta-ins of the Moon being associated with the country of the Moon, I would fain draw the attention of the reader of my travels to the volume of the Asiatic Researches in which it was published. It is remarkable that the Hindus have christened the source of the Nile Amara, which is the name of a country at the north-east corner of the Victoria Nâyanza. This, I think, shows clearly, that the ancient Hindus must have had some kind of communication with both the northern and southern ends of the Victoria Nâyanza.â Let pioneer Indologist and Sanskri-tist Sir William Jones conclude in Asiatic Researches, Volume I: âOf the cursory observations on the Hindus, which it would require volumes to expand and illustrate, this is the result, that they had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians, or Goths, and Celts, the Chinese, Japanese, and Peruvians.â â Grandpaâs blessings.
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Extraordinary similarity between Indian, Egyptian cultural symbols
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Extraordinary similarity between Indian, Egyptian cultural symbols
By Niranjan Shah------ My dear Sanjna and Aryan, So far we have seen, how India had developed shipping and navigation in a very remote period, how they went from Dwarika or Sindh to Oman, Yemen, Ethiopia, Nubia and established kingdom of Egypt. Scholars have confirmed and provided evidence to support colonization of Egypt in India more than eight thousand years ago. We also saw that these people gave Sanskrit names to the new countries, rivers and mountain.
Sudha and Rashmi Chokshi of Detroit want to know about any cultural similarity between ancient India and Egypt. There is a striking similarity in use of lotus both in India and Egypt in relation to rivers. The flower so prolific in the imagery of both India and Egypt, grows out of the waters and opens its petals to be warmed by the sun: to be fertilized. From the earliest imagery in stone at Sanchi, of the first century BC in India, the lotus is associated with Sri, the Goddess of Fertility, who is later invoked as Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth and Abundance - being worshipped by Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus alike. Surya, signifying the fertilizing powers of the sun as he travels through the universe, holds the lotus in each hand.
In Egypt, the blue lotus appears in the earliest wall paintings of the VI Dynasty at the pyramids of Saqqara and in all funerary stelae. They are offered to the deceased, and held in the hand as thought they possess the power to revitalize them: to bring the deceased back to life. Carved out of blue lapis, along with the golden falcon and the sun that are the symbols of the God Horus, the lotus appears among the funerary treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamen. The lotus then, becomes a leitmotiv, a symbol most apt since its links the waters with the sun, the earth to sky - signifying fertility and regeneration in both Egypt and India. For, it is the seed of the plant which spells out the cycle of birth-decay-death and rebirth that forms the essential pattern of belief in these two riverine and agricultural societies.
In India and Egypt, the rivers Saraswati and Ganga and the Nile have brought sustenance to the land and nourished these civilizations which have survived more than five millennia. Both these rivers, the Ganga and the Nile, are personified and worshipped. They provide the dramatic backdrop against which myths and indeed created, to explain the topographic conditions of the land. From its source in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the Ganga flows some 2,500 kilometers, through the rich deltaic region which is known as Aryavarta, in the most densely populated area of India. Puranic myths recount the divine origins of the the Ganga, as she fell from heaven to earth in response to penance performed by the sage Bhagiratha: to bring the powers of water to an earth parched for over a thousand years.
At the seventh century seaport of Mahabalipuram in south India, this epic theme is entirely carved out of a granite rock spanning almost 50 feet. A natural cleft in the rock allows the rainwater to pour down in great torrents - as though this were the descent of a mighty river. Besides this cleft are carved the serpentine forms of the naga devatas (snake divinities), the sun and the moon, the gandharvas and kinnaras (celestial beings), the hunters and animals of the forest - all of them re-joicing in this great event where the divine rive is celebrated as the savior of all mankind. Here is a spectacular instance of the way in which myth is used to relate man to the environment. In this myth one senses an acute awareness of the ecological balance which needs to be maintained: of the vapors of the sea rising to the sky through heat, described in the myth as tapas, and then falling back to earth as the divine river, to flow down through the matted locks of Lord Shiva, on to the Himalayas, to flow back into the ocean. A
s in India, so in Egypt, the river is personified in human form. A sandstone relief from the temple of Rameses II at Abydos depicts Hapi, god of the Nile, holding a pair of blue lotus stalks in his hands; suspended from the Godâs right arm is the ankh, the symbol of life. Unlike the Ganga, the blue god of the Nile is male, but with one female breast to symbolize his role as nourisher - releasing the waters each year to provide sustenance to mankind. Grandpaâs Blessing<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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