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Re: New Book : RIG VEDA AND THE HISTORY OF INDIA [Re: Ishwa] #17707 - 06/21/02 05:19 PM Edit Reply Quote

About the European section The Danavas went out to Europe very early, after being defeated sometime before Yayati, but whether they were Arya is not to say, they were for sure Asuras. The first branche of Arya that went out of India towards the west were Druhyus, they are related to the Puru Arya. The Druhyus may have had connections and intermarriages with the Danavas in Europe. (The Danavas gradually fade or disappear from Hindu mythology). The word Danava is not only attested in the river names in eastern Europe (Danube, Dnjestr, Dnjepr), but also in the name of two people: Tuatha de Danaan in Ireland and the Danaos in Greece. The word Druhyu might be retained in the Russian Slavic word 'druzhba = friendship'. (Whereas 'oriya = slave', from arya in Finno-Ugrian). Druhyu may be a old Prakrtism of Drujhyu/Drughyu. I wonder whether the Celtic god Lugh (Sun- and WarGod), which name was part of even Celtic cities (Lugodunum = Lyon in France, Leyden in Holland), is a Prakrtik form of Drugh-yu. (the regular : dr > dd > d / l) Though I realize that Lugh=Lux=Light(rocati) is more logical. The word drugh/druh has got a negative meaning, as there were hostilities between the Purus and Druhyus, but even with the Anus, because the Avesta calls them Druj, the deceiving ones. In German they have the verbs 'lug-nen' = to lie and 'be-trug-en' = to deceive. (Even the English word 'drug' is in the same order) If the Druhyus were even in Europe negatively seen, they may have been superseded by a new wave from Asia. Maybe it was a Turvasu branche, because a section went to the south(west), and the rest disappeared from the chronicles when the Bharatas rose to power. (The Turvasu king Marutta had adopted Dushyanta, the father of Bharata. Then not much of the Turvasus is heard of, besides a lineage moving more south, the progeny of the Dravidian) Edited by Ishwa (06/21/02 05:37 PM)