Horses in South India

[Guest guest]

Today's Leftist Historians tend to move away from the discussions of

Origins and chronology of Archaeological artifacts(The Penguin History

of Early India, RT,2002). Reason for distancing from such debates is,

the more the discussions go deeper, the more they are forced to refute

their own models.

 

Fr. Br., had to eat an unceremonious humble pie, in the latest

discussions on Ind-Arch group. He had to concede that he was wrong

in rejecting the well established fact that South

India did have presence of horse prior to 1500 bce.

 

It has been established as long as ago as 1992 that South India had

equid remains dating prior to 1500 bce (K.R. Alur's paper " Aryan

Invasion of India, Indo-Gangetic Valley Cultures " (in B.U. Nayak and

N.C. Ghosh,eds., _New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology: S.R. Rao's

70th Birthday Felicitation Volume_, New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1992,

vol. 2, pp. 561-62)). Further, the rock art at Karikkiyur (Tamil

Nadu),the largest rock art site in South India is dated to prior to

1500 bce, depicts horse riders. In fact, the inner limit is 2000 bce

for this rock art center.

 

This proves that the tamed horse was quite prevalent in South India in

pre 1500 bce times.

 

The law makers of India have granted exemption to South Indian

merchants from the prohibition on horse trading. This goes on to prove

that the horse population was quite heavy in South India and hence,

the law makers were under pressure to grant such an exemption.

 

In fact, the very word Aswa comes from the Sea, Aswat, the expanse.

Saindhava , another name for horse, is directly connected to sea

(sindhu)This again shows that horses owe their origin to south India.

 

The above archaeological and liturgical/linguistic proof goes onto

support my hypothesis that Mitannis have learned horse sciences from

South India. It was already an established fact that Mitannis were on

trading terms with Ceylone and hence, this again proves that they have

connections with South India also.

 

This will make the models of AIT (that ancient Indians were pushed to

South India from sindhu area by incoming Aryans) tupsy turvy, in the

sense, it is South Indians who moved to North India.

 

 

Kishore patnaik

[Guest guest]

Apprently Right,

 

in one of our works on archaeoastronomy we have found a Corroboaration.

 

....."it is South Indians who moved to North India" ........[actually it should be phrased as ...to north of the Vindhyas]

 

the likley date works out to between 10000 yrs before present and 27000 yrs before present. This is only a rough estimate....exact dates will be published along with mathematical calculations based on positional astronomy.

 

Deepak Bhattacharya

Bhubaneswar

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Kishore patnaik

Saturday, August 02, 2008 2:13 PM

Horses in South India

 

 

Today's Leftist Historians tend to move away from the discussions ofOrigins and chronology of Archaeological artifacts(The Penguin Historyof Early India, RT,2002). Reason for distancing from such debates is,the more the discussions go deeper, the more they are forced to refutetheir own models.Fr. Br., had to eat an unceremonious humble pie, in the latestdiscussions on Ind-Arch group. He had to concede that he was wrong in rejecting the well established fact that SouthIndia did have presence of horse prior to 1500 bce.It has been established as long as ago as 1992 that South India hadequid remains dating prior to 1500 bce (K.R. Alur's paper "AryanInvasion of India, Indo-Gangetic Valley Cultures" (in B.U. Nayak andN.C. Ghosh,eds., _New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology: S.R. Rao's70th Birthday Felicitation Volume_, New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1992,vol. 2, pp. 561-62)). Further, the rock art at Karikkiyur (TamilNadu),the largest rock art site in South India is dated to prior to1500 bce, depicts horse riders. In fact, the inner limit is 2000 bcefor this rock art center.This proves that the tamed horse was quite prevalent in South India inpre 1500 bce times.The law makers of India have granted exemption to South Indianmerchants from the prohibition on horse trading. This goes on to provethat the horse population was quite heavy in South India and hence,the law makers were under pressure to grant such an exemption.In fact, the very word Aswa comes from the Sea, Aswat, the expanse.Saindhava , another name for horse, is directly connected to sea(sindhu)This again shows that horses owe their origin to south India.The above archaeological and liturgical/linguistic proof goes ontosupport my hypothesis that Mitannis have learned horse sciences fromSouth India. It was already an established fact that Mitannis were ontrading terms with Ceylone and hence, this again proves that they haveconnections with South India also.This will make the models of AIT (that ancient Indians were pushed toSouth India from sindhu area by incoming Aryans) tupsy turvy, in thesense, it is South Indians who moved to North India.Kishore patnaik