India's with Ancient America

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India's Cultural Link with Ancient America

 

Swami Vivekananda once said about the God Shiva that he had traveled

from India, on the one side, to Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Australia,

as far as the shores of America, and on the other side, this old

Shiva battened his bull in Tibet, Japan and as far as Siberia …

Right from the peroid of first Spanish historist Mr. Fray Shahaun

(1515AD) till today, a number of scholars have worked over the life

of native Americans and some of them almost came to the conclusion

that in ancient times people from India and the Indiana archipelago

migrated to America and developed a great civilization there. In his

book 'A Compact History of Mexico', Mr. Ignacio Bernall states that

people from Asia entered America some thirty-five thousand years

before, whereas Mr. Arcio Nuns, a Brazilian nuclear scientist,

mentions about the Dravidians of Asia with America as old as eleven

thousand years.

An article published in the 'Hindu' of 27th Sept. 1985 writes about

the discovery made by Dr. Harry Fell, renowned epigraphist of USA

goes to suggest that the early merchant settlers of South-East Asia

had sailed to far off lands in pursuit of their profession, whose

presence in Mexico is available in the form of inscriptions. Dr.

Fell has deciphered the Indic inscription from Tihosuco which reads

that merchant Vusaluna, the captain of the ship, sailing along the

coast line, had got the inscription engraved on the stone slab in

the month of July of the year 845. It is assumed that year mentioned

is of Saka era.

Cultural Links:

Worship - The archaeologists found many Hindu deities like Shiva,

Shiv-Linga, Ganesh, Kali, Sun, Buddha etc. (in similar or slightly

different forms) which were worshipped in ancient America.

The Hindu God of luck, the Ganesh, was worshipped in Central-South

America. Idols of Ganesh have been excavated in plenty in Mexico.

This God of the Elephant's trunk is frequently depicted in Mexican

manuscripts and in the temple ruins in Central America as the God

with a proboscis-like horn, whence water is squirting, and his head

is most frequently portrayed on the corners of temple walls, which

are always built with reference to the original points. And idol

of 'Ekdant Ganesh' was noticed in the temple at Kopan by great

Indonologist lateDr. W.S. Wakankar.

An idol of Hanuman called by the name 'Wilka Huemana' and measuring

50 feet in height and 12 feet in breadth was found in Guatemala.

Similar idol was found during an excavation of an Aztec temple in

Mexico city and was known as 'Euhectal', a wind God, a monkey God.

Buddhism also had a vast influence on pre-Colombian America.

Professor F.W. Putnam found in the jungles of Honduras a sculpture

which greatly resembles Buddha. According to the July, 1901 issue of

American Harper's magazine, it has been proved with evidence that

five Buddhist monks had reached Mexico in ancient times, via Alaska.

 

Ceremonies, Beliefs and Customs :

Hindu culture, civilization, custom and belief also dominated

ancient America to some extent. Ancient Americans believed in

legendary cataclysm, rebirth, four yugas and the concept of two

planets like Rahu and Ketu causing solar eclipse. The Hindu doctrine

of the ages is preserved in a stone monolith popularly known as the

Aztec calendar. This remarkable piece of stone carving is in the

form of an immense disc 12 feet in diameter and weights over 20

tons. A festival called Sita-Ram (Situa-Raimi) was celebrated in

Mexico during Nav-Ratri or Desserah's period which has been

described on page 5867 in the book 'Hamsworth History of the World'.

Both in Central and South America, there are found Sati-Cremation,

priesthood, Gurukul system, Yagnya, birth, marriage and death

ceremonies to some extent similar to the Hindus.

 

Social life :

The ancient American's dresses (male and female) were simple and

similar to those of Hindu dresses. Mexican face types were found to

be similar to those of Asam, Naga, Nepal and Haryana people. Even

their reddish brown skin complexion bear distinct similarity with

those of Nepalies and Nagas. If an Indian is shown a Maya lady of

Yucatan province from Mexico, he will recognize her as a Jat Lady of

Haryana. Ayar Inoa King used to wear a turban, earring and a trishul

type trident in his hand.

Today there live native red Indians of America in the states of

California, Arizona, New Mexico who are now left only few lacs in

number. These tribes are still vegetarians. Similarly, only two lacs

natives are survived in Canada who are still called as 'Indians'.

Their lifestyle, customs, and beliefs are identical to those of red

Indians, so similar to Bhartiya.

Trade :

Goldsmiths from Peru and Mexico prevailed working style similar to

Indian traditional goldsmiths. Mr. Michael Long of the National

Geographic Society was surprised to see the back strap weaving

method in Handloom at Santa Rosa of Peru. This is used to separate

thread. It is very well known that cotton is a gift given by Indians

to the whole world.

 

Language:

Professor Raman Mena, curator of the National Museum of Mexico, said

that the general appearance of Maya's writing is considered of

oriental origin. According to scholar Orozco V. Berra, Maya and

other languages are of Sanskrit origin. A few Sanskrit and Quichua

words are given here to show their similarity and origin.

Quichua Sanskrit

A hina (also) ena (also)

Killa (moon) Kil (shining)

Illapi (chant) lap (to speak)

Paksa (fortnight) Paksha (Fortnight)

 

The word 'Wara', a unit of measurement, was also used by Maya

people. They used to call Antyas as Antis. Professor Hug Fox of

Michigan State University found a strange mix of Tamil and local

American languages in use some millennia ago. For example, shasta,

Indiana, Arevada, Utah, Guyana etc. Mr. Arcio Nuns, from the Federal

University of Brazil, found evidence of our Gorani language in the

form of Bruhi language during his long research work conducted in

South America. 'Gorani' language was practiced thousands of years

before in Tamilnandu as per Arcio Nuns. This language is still used

in the Adi-Chandlur tribal area of Tamilnanadu and shows similarity

to the Bruhi language being practiced in South America.

It is also believed that Quichua's (language of Peruvians)

characteristic of mouth transmission is derived from Indians.

Writing mathematical figures by using vertical and horizontal

straight lines was a system commonly practiced by Indians and Mayas

Shilpa :

Southern and Central American excavations revealed ancient cities,

forts, bridges, tanks, canals, houses, and pyramids which indicated

the high state of civilization and what is found that some

sculptures of those archaeological remnants are similar in form and

design to that found in Indian sculptural monuments. 'Supporting the

buildings over the arms of Yaksha' is an Indian art. Similar types

of construction was found in ancient Mexico. Similarly, sculptures

of human figures with headgear similar to Tamilians, sculptures of

Indian style ornamentation of elephants were found in Copan

(Honduras) and Palenque. Thousands of ancient baked-clay bricks were

found in Comalcalco in Mexico over which Pali scripts were engraved

and these were used in the construction of pyramid temples which

were similar to the pyramid temple in the Chidambaram village

situated on the Coromondal coast in Southern India. In an article

written by scholar Ronald Shiller named 'Unsolved Mysteries of! the

Incas' appeared in Reader's Digest of August 1982, he claims to have

seen the imprints of South-East Asian culture over the sculptures

found in Peru dating to the second century BC.

I hope my findings will help the scholars to study the influence of

Indian Culture over the Meso-American culture, so as to bring before

the world the universality of great Vedic culture in the past.

 

(Arun Chinchmalatpure)

 

Shri Arun Chinchmalatpure

Near Primary School,

Kelibag Road, Mahal

Nagpur - 440 002

India

 

 

Extract from Another Written Text

Source: ???

The fact that a highly civilized race inhabited America long before

the modern civilization of Europe made its appearance there, is

quite clear from the striking remains of ancient and his refinement

existing in the country. Extensive remains of cities which must have

been once in a most flourishing condition, of strong and well-built

fortresses, as well as the ruins of very ancient and magnificent

buildings, roads, tanks and canals that meet the eye over a very

wide area of the southern continent of America, irresistibly force

us to the conclusion that the country must have been inhabited at

one time by a very highly civilized nation. But whence did this

civilization spring?

 

The researches of European antiquarians trace it to India. Mr.

Coleman says : "Baron Humboldt, the great German traveler and

scientist, describes the existence of Hindu remains still found in

America"

 

Speaking of the social usages of the inhabitants of Peru, Mr.

Pococke says : "The Peruvians and their ancestors, the Indians, are

in this point of view at once seen to be the same people." The

architecture of ancient America resembles the Hindu style of

architecture. Mr. Hardy says "The ancient edifices of Chichen in

Central America bear a striking resemblance to the tops of India."

Mr. Squire also says : "The Buddhist temples of Southern India, and

of the islands of the Indian archipelago, as described to us by the

learned members of the Asiatic Society and the numerous writers on

the religion and antiquities of the Hindus, correspond with great

exactness in all their essential and in many of their minor features

with those of Central America." Dr. Zerfii remarks : "We find the

remarkable temples, fortresses and viaducts, aqueducts of the Aryan

group."

 

A still more significant fact proves the Hindu origin of the

civilization of ancient America. The mythology of ancient America

furnishes sufficient grounds for the inference that it was a child

of Hindu mythology. The following facts will elucidate the matter :-

 

 

 

 

Americans worshipped Mother Earth as a mythological deity, as the

Hindus still do – dharti mata and pritvi mata are well known ad

familiar phrases in Hindustan.

 

 

Footprints of herces and deities on rocks and hills were worshipped

by the Americans as devoutly as they are done in India even at the

present day. Mexicans are said to have worshipped the footprints of

Quetzal Coatle, a the Indians worship the footprints of Buddha in

Ceylon, and of Krishna in Gokal near Muttra.

 

 

The Solar and Lunar eclipses were looked upon in ancient America in

the same light as in modern India. The Hindus beat drums and make

noises by beating tin pots and other things. The Americans, too,

raise a frightful howl and sound musical instruments. The Carecles

(Americans) think that the demon Maleoyo, the hater of light,

swallows the moon and sun in the same way as the Hindus think that

the demons Rahu and Ketu devous the sun and the moon.

 

 

The priests were represented in America with serpents round their

heads, as Siva, Kali, and others are represented by the Hindus.

 

 

 

Ancient Heritage of Tamils

V.G. Ramachandran

Have we not evidence that the ancient Cholas discovered South

America long before Columbus did and that the Inca Sun Worshippers

of Peru are none but the descendants of "our Chola ancestors" (vide

Neelakanta Sastri-History of S. India and M. Monohan's "Chola's in

America 1976" – pp11-20). The Incas had their Temple of the Sun God

(Peru) much like the one in Konarak in Orissa built by the Cholas.

The Chola chieftains (Incas) of America styled themselves

as "Raghuvamsa Manickam". This shows that they belonged to the

Raghuvamsa of Sri Rama whose ancestor Sibi Chakravarthi is well

described in ancient Tamil literature as the Chola king Sembian.

This takes us to a very relevant inference that the ancestors of

Dasaratha are as much the ancestors of the Tamils. One other

ancestor of Sri Rama, Musu Kunthan, is none other than the Musu

Kuntha Chola in ancient Tamil history. This Musu Kunthan's reighn

was during the second ! Tamil Sangam age 4800-2800 BC.