Guest guest Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 >By Vamadeva --- vedicinst wrote: > VFA-members > vedicinst > Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:32:16 EDT > Re: [VFA-members] The word "India" > > In a message dated 9/13/2004 12:44:43 PM Mountain > Daylight Time, > friend_vijai writes: > 1. Arabs do not have the word "sa" or "si", they > usually called as "ha" or > "hi" > 2. So people and practices on the side of "river > sindu" became "hindu" > The shift of h and s occurs in dialects inside India > as well, including not > only regions of the northwest (Panjab) but also the > northeast. For example, > Assam is also Ahom. The term Hindu itself occurs > first in written form in the > Zend Avesta (which has been dated well before 500 > BCE) with Sapta Sindhu as Hapta > Hindu, so it existed long before the Arabs. Some > kings in north India as > early as the twelfth century already called > themselves Hindu Rayas. > 6. The greeks did not know how to promounce "hi" or > "ha" instead prefered > "in", so hind became "indi" and british made it > indian. > This was the case, ancient Greek Sindhu became Indu. > Megasthenes called his > fourth centry BC work on India as Indika. > > The Chinese called India, the land of Indu, showing > a similar change of > words, but I am not certain where they got it. They > also identified Indu as the > Moon, which the term does mean in Sanskrit. > > Such terms do however reflect a common tendency even > in India to call the > region Sapta Sindhu or Sindhu desha as the land of > the rivers, which can be found > as early as the Rig Veda. > > Vamadeva > _______________________________ Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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