Thomas In India? History Of Christianism In India

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<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Mar 29 2007, 10:00 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Mar 29 2007, 10:00 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Land reclamation by Parasurama : Mahabharat gives a very detailed account of this.  Though not sure that land was modern Kerala.  Other opinions are it may be in eastern Iran (the name Persia : ParasUya)[right][snapback]66297[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Bodhi, from what I read, Persia appears to have been called Parsa by its own people after its main city (like the Roman empire was thus called after its main city of Rome). And those who were from the capital Parsa were called Parsi/Parsee similar to their language Parsi (later on all Persians were called Parsee), at least they were so in the later times of the empire. Whereas in early times Persians called their own tribe Parshya.
I think S. Talageri identified the Persians with the Parshu tribe, so in that case, that would have been the Indian name for the early tribe of Persians-to-be.

Still, might ParasUya not have something to do with the name of Parashurama (who I don't think had anything to do with the Parshus) rather than with the Parshya/Parshu tribe? There are after all many similar sounding words which do not necessarily derive one from another. Is there any other indication that the land, 'Parasuya', reclaimed by Parashurama can indeed be identified with Pars?


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