Fwd: interesting news item on discovery of vishnu idol in russian village

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HinduThought, kalyan97 <kalyan97 wrote:

 

Dear Prabhu and bandhu,

 

This has also been flashed on Moscow News four hours ago.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/01/04/harevishnu.shtml

 

Yes, the discovery of an ancient Vishnu idol can change view on

ancient

Russian history.

 

It will be nice if a photograph of the image is obtained. I hope

Bharatiya

scholars will also participate in the international conference

proposed to

be organized. The comment of Kozhevin is notable; his hypothesis is

that

middle-volga region was the original land of Ancient Russia.

 

Of course, skeptics will as usual start nit-picking on the

stratigraphical

details, the basis on which the pratimaa is claimed to be ancient,

and start

speculating, indology-style, that it could be a stray find of someone

walking across Khyber pass as an Aryan tourist and picking up an

antique

from the Janpath Avenue in New Delhi.

 

The fact that Heliodorus column of Vasudeva (Vishnu) is real and

dated to

ca. 175 BCE should make us pass on how a Greek could become a

vishnu-bhakta. "This Garuda <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda>-

column of

Vasudeva <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasudeva>

(Visnu<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visnu>),

the god of gods, was erected here by Heliodorus, a worshiper of

Visnu, the

son of Dion, and an inhabitant of

Taxila<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila>,

who came as Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks> ambassador

from the

Great King Antialkidas

(Antialcidas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antialcidas>)

to King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the savior, then reigning prosperously

in the

fourteenth year of his kingship." (Transliteration and translation of

this

ancient Brahmi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi> inscription was

published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London: JRAS,

Pub.,

1909, pp. 1053-54.) We need not, therefore, be surprised if the date

of the

Vishnu pratimaa is dated to early centuries BCE. See notes and images

on

Vis'varupa by TS Maxwell at http://ignca.nic.in/visvb001.htm Many

pratimaa

of Vis'varupa and Vaikuntha (rupa of Vishnu) are found in the Kashmir

region.

 

See map location of Ulyanovsk province close to Volga river at page

130 of

http://www.naturalis.nl/sites/naturalis.en/contents/i000860/nieukerken

_etal2004volganotalep.pdf

 

Alternative spellings for the archaeological site are: Staraya Mayna,

Staraja Majna.

 

This remarkable, in fact, stunning discovery should lead to an in-

depth

study of interactions between mleccha, samskrtam and proto-russian

languages

of the Ulyanovsk region with particular reference to semantics which

form

the basis of common cultural metaphors as merchants of meluhha spread

out

far and wide in search of minerals.

 

See the map of the Ulyanovsk-Samara region. It is close to Kazakhstan.

http://tinyurl.com/yy6p6d See map of Southcentral Asia regions at

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/gazette/jpg/regions/fr_sca.jpg

 

I think it is the responsibility of scholars from Russia and Bharatam

to get

together and conduct a joint review of the discovery of the

millennium. The

proposed conference is a good start.

 

kalyan

 

 

On 1/4/07, Prabhu Bharathan <prabhu_bharathan wrote:

>

> Namaste Dr. Kalyanaraman,

>

> What bearing does this have on Indic studies?

>

> rgds

> prabhu

>

> http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=79102

>

> Moscow, January 4:

> An ancient Vishnu idol has been found during excavation in an old

> village in Russia's Volga region, raising questions about the

prevalent

> view on the origin of ancient Russia.--

> Let noble thoughts come from all sides.

> aa no bhadraah krtavo yantu vis'vatah

>

> S. Kalyanaraman