Peru's Ancient Vedic Culture

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Peru's Ancient Vedic Culture [PDF]<http://vedicempire.com/index2.php?option=com_content & do_pdf=1 & id=25>[Print]<http://vedicempire.com/index2.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=25 & po\p=1 & page=0 & Itemid=26> [E-mail]<http://vedicempire.com/index2.php?option=com_content & task=emailform & id=\25 & itemid=26> Written byVedic EmpireVEDIC PERUhttp://vedicempire.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=25 & Item\id=26<http://vedicempire.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=25 & Ite\mid=26>In the Western Hemisphere too there is evidence of Hinduism having onceflourished there. In Mexico a festival is celebrated at the same time asour Navaratri; it is called "Rama-Sita". Wherever the earth isdug up images of Ganapati are discovered here. The Aztecs had inhabitedMexico before the Spaniards conquered that land. "Aztecs " mustbe a distorted form of "Astikas". In Peru, during the time ofthe holy equinox [vernal?] worship was conducted in the sun temple. Thepeople of this land were called Incas: "Ina" is one of theSanskrit names of the sun god. Don't we call Rama "InakulaTilaka ?", (Ornament of the solar dynasty.)Copyright Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham

The Hindus were mighty navigators and pioneers of culture centuriesbefore Columbus was born. They established their cultural empires inJava, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Cambodia, Champa, Annam andSiam and ruled there until after the 14th century. By Chaman LalThe fact that the Hindus were capable of sailing to far off countries

like Mexico and Peru is proved by the official historien of Mexico, whoin his book published by the Mexican Foreign Office."Those who first arrived on the continent later to be known asAmerica were groups of men driven by that mighty current that set outfrom India towards the east."The U. S. Ambassador Miles Poindexter states in his book The Ayar-Incasthat primitive Aryan words and people came to America especially fromIndo-Arya by the island chains of Polynesia. The very name of the boatin Mexico is a South Indian (Tamil) word: Catamaran.Most of you in India are familiar with the Charak Puja ceremonialobserved in Bengal and several States in South India. This HinduCeremonial also observed in Mexico historian call it the mexicon andperu. The Spanish Valador ritual. A relief of Bayon central temple of

Angkor Thom in Cambodia represents a rite similar to the Mexico Valador.The use of parasol (Chhatra) is an age-old sign of royalty and rank inIndia, Burma, China and Japan. The Maya Astec and the Incas also used itas a sign of royalty. Frescoes of Chak Multum in Yucatan show two typesof parasols both of which correspond to types still in use in South-EastAsia.In reading descriptions of the palace and court of the Astec emperors ofMexico, any one familiar with South-East Asia cannot fail to be remindedof the courts of Burma, Siam and Cambodia. The same applied to the formof government. Thus the institution of four chief officials in Mexicoand Peru corresponds to the four ministers of state and Governors of thefour quarters of the Kingdom in Hindu Buddist empires of South-EastAsia. In both cases this institution is based on cosmologicalprinciples. This indicates similar pictorial story of the Hindu Buddistorigins in the field of art, religious architecture, government,kingship, cosmology and mythology proves close cultural contacts betweenancient India and countries of South-East Asia with the countries ofCentral and South America. Dr. Robert Gelern and Dr. Ekholm have come tothe following conclusion:"The large number of highly specific correspondences in so manyfields precludes any reponsibility of mere accidental coincidence norwould it help us to take refuge in any kind of explanation based on somealleged psychological laws. There is no psychologial law which couldhave caused the peoples on both sides of the Pacific to stylize thelotus plant in the same manner and to make it surge from the mouth of ajawless demon's head, to invent the parasol and use it as a sign ofrank and to invent the same complicated game (Pachisi). There is noexplanation other than the assumption of cultural relationship. We mustbow to the evidence of facts even tough this may mean a completely newstart in our appraisal of the origin and development of the AmericanIndian higher civilizations."The Ayar RulersThe use of throne, the litre and of fans mounted standard like on longpoles as insignia of rank and royalty in the countries of Central andSouth America bears the strong imprint of India. It may be observed herethat the last Ayar ruler of Peru was carried in his palanquin on the daythe Spaniards invaded Peru. His turban with the plume and his Mudra ofthe hand are unmistakable proofs of his Hindu origin. His four Ranisperformed Sati after he was murdered by the Spaniards. A hundred Ayarrulers ruled Peru.The Mexican national throne preserved in the National Museum of Mexicobears the typical Hindu Buddist disc of the Sun. The Mexicans also hadthe Hindu Simhasan (Lion throne). A scene of Buddha-Sangh as preservedin a relief temple in Java has its parallel in the famous pyramid templein Piedras Negras, Guatemala. This is the finest piece of Mayasculpture in America. Is has no real incidence in Maya Arts history butit does have a remarkable similarity to a number of ""Life ofBuddha reliefs"" of the Boro Budur in Java. There is no way ofknowing what the subject matter of the American relief might be but thecomposition with the placing of the figures on several levels is verysimilar to the one in Java. Images of Gods

India has the reputation to be the land of gods but Mexico, Guatemala,Peru, Bolivia and Honduras had more gods and richer temples than we hadin India at any time. Shiva, Ganesha, Indra, the Sun, Hanuman, Vishnuand his tortoise incarnation (Kurma Avatar) were some of the Hindu godsworshipped in central and South America. I present to you the galaxy ofour Gods preserved in the museums of America. Here you can see Shiva,Ganesha and even his rat from the Inca mythology in Peru, Ganesha fromthe temple of Diego Riviera in Mexico City, various images of Hanumanand Shiva from the Guatemala Museum, Shiva Linga from Vera Cruz inMexico City. The Mexican Vishnu in spite of his Mexican features can beeasily recognised from the mace (Gada) and Chakra that he holds in histwo hands. The image of Vishnu's tortoise incarnation preserved bythe United Fruit Line in the museum at Quiragua, Guatemala, is thegreatest puzzle for anthropologists. They have named this image as theTurtle Stone although any one familiar with Hindu mythology can see thatit is Vishnu's Kurma Avatar (Tortoise incarnation). Indra ispreserved in the Mexican National Museum as well as Vaman Avatar calledthe Diving God. There are two images of this Hindu God, one from Baliand the other from Mexico.Hindu RitualsThe largest temple in Mexico City was the temple of Lord Shiva, theWar God of the Mexican whom the Spanish invaders found entwined bygolden snakes. This temple was built in the 15th century and had 3000Deva-Dasis to perform religious ceremonials. The Mexican temple had theGopuram style. Here you see a reconstruction of the same after it wasdestroyed by the Spaniards. The temples at Tikal in Mexico also bore theimprint of our famous temple at Madura. No wonder E. G. Squire in hisAmerican archaeological researches in 1851 wrote:"It is believed a proper examination of these monuments woulddisclose the fact that in their interior structure as well as in theirexterior form and obvious purposes these buildings correspond with greatexactness to those of Hindustan and the Indian Archipelago."Sir Stamford Raflles wrote, ""The great temple of Borobudurmight readily be mistaken for a Central American Temple. "From child-birth to cremation and Sati the Astecs observed almostall Hindu rituals including the Gurukula system of education followed inIndia. The Incas of Peru with Ayar Brahman ancestry observed the sacredthread ceremony, the ear-piercing ceremony all other Hindu rituals andrigidly observed the caste systems of India. It is not without reasonthat the Spanish author Lopez says in his book Le Races Aryans de Peru :""Every page of peruvian poetry bears the imprint of Ramayana andMahabharata."

Sanskrit was the sacred language of the rulers and quichua the languageof Peruvians. The Aryo-Quichua vocabulary prepared by Lopez proves it.SOURCE: http://www.jansamachar.net/display.php3?id= & num=49 & lang=EnglishOriginal Source : Hindu America