07-03-2007, 06:33 PM
Re: Indra being tribal God of Indians
Where does Indra or Vedic-hymns about Indra, ever mention that Indra is exclusively for the Arya-s or Indians?? He is invoked as helper in war, but not as a power partial only to Arya-s. Even in purANa-s, shiva, brahmA etc repeatedly give dangerous boons to asura-s, rAkshasa-s and daitya-s and are never thought of as partial only to a tribal grouping.
And calling Arya-s as tribal is also incorrect. Within Arya-s there were many tribes/clans/gotra-s. Literal meaning of Arya never had a tribal or racial implications until the discovery of "Aryans" by the european indologists.
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Where does Indra or Vedic-hymns about Indra, ever mention that Indra is exclusively for the Arya-s or Indians?? He is invoked as helper in war, but not as a power partial only to Arya-s. Even in purANa-s, shiva, brahmA etc repeatedly give dangerous boons to asura-s, rAkshasa-s and daitya-s and are never thought of as partial only to a tribal grouping.
And calling Arya-s as tribal is also incorrect. Within Arya-s there were many tribes/clans/gotra-s. Literal meaning of Arya never had a tribal or racial implications until the discovery of "Aryans" by the european indologists.
Menon has swallowed the half-baked MaxMooli pie. <!--emo&
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