02-12-2007, 03:52 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-ishwa+Feb 11 2007, 09:37 PM-->QUOTE(ishwa @ Feb 11 2007, 09:37 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus, a very small amount of "Saka" returned, and that too mostly in Afghanistan. Their significance to Indian population is negligable.
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Ishwa
The main problem starts beacuse of our excessive reliance on foreign authors and terminologies given by them , some of which even didn't come in contact with real people and our attempts to find their exact match in native population.So Huna of Herodotus and Huna of Procopius may have obvious differences.
A better approach in this regard would be to take real indian people and see what were they called by other historians as Herodotus ,Procopius or Heuntsang.
When we equate Sakas with Scythian and attest their presence in Indus region from ancient times we can not think that there would have been boundaries to restrict their to and fro movement between central asia and northwest , and distances between Parama ,Kamboja ,Tukharas ,Sindh Peshwar ,Sogandia ,Parthia,were even some times less than southern and northern parts of present indian nation
We can not forget the existence of a nation of Sakas called Scythia by author Periplus of Eurythrian sea and Sindhu Sauvira by native scholars at the same place with in India. Similary movement of Turusakas and Bala hords in to and out of indian lands.These Tur sah or tur saka are recorded as per Iranian records ruling north west and at the same time we are finding the rise of Tur and tomars of Indian Jats Rajputs or Gujjars .Similarly Paramabhattaraka Balas are reported with their genealogies shifting from Indian names to Turanian names and at the same time emergence of Balas of Indian Jats gujjar or Rajputs.
Some authors do find it difficult to differenciate scythian and aryan as a people.
So many times we are seeing the same race moving at different times and being treated as a different groups.
Again we can not rule out the fact that people from Parthia and Parma called parthihar ,parthavas ,parmaras did come and established their rule and most probably gave rise to some legends of Agani kula nature.
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Ishwa
The main problem starts beacuse of our excessive reliance on foreign authors and terminologies given by them , some of which even didn't come in contact with real people and our attempts to find their exact match in native population.So Huna of Herodotus and Huna of Procopius may have obvious differences.
A better approach in this regard would be to take real indian people and see what were they called by other historians as Herodotus ,Procopius or Heuntsang.
When we equate Sakas with Scythian and attest their presence in Indus region from ancient times we can not think that there would have been boundaries to restrict their to and fro movement between central asia and northwest , and distances between Parama ,Kamboja ,Tukharas ,Sindh Peshwar ,Sogandia ,Parthia,were even some times less than southern and northern parts of present indian nation
We can not forget the existence of a nation of Sakas called Scythia by author Periplus of Eurythrian sea and Sindhu Sauvira by native scholars at the same place with in India. Similary movement of Turusakas and Bala hords in to and out of indian lands.These Tur sah or tur saka are recorded as per Iranian records ruling north west and at the same time we are finding the rise of Tur and tomars of Indian Jats Rajputs or Gujjars .Similarly Paramabhattaraka Balas are reported with their genealogies shifting from Indian names to Turanian names and at the same time emergence of Balas of Indian Jats gujjar or Rajputs.
Some authors do find it difficult to differenciate scythian and aryan as a people.
So many times we are seeing the same race moving at different times and being treated as a different groups.
Again we can not rule out the fact that people from Parthia and Parma called parthihar ,parthavas ,parmaras did come and established their rule and most probably gave rise to some legends of Agani kula nature.