Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Is it right then? [Re: Suprabha] #17646 - 06/20/02 02:12 AM Edit Reply Quote

Very interesting indeed. I thought also that Nusa was equivalent to Dviipa. Although I couldn't find the original word in my Sanskrit dictionaries, yet. There's a theory (of Oppenheimer, I believe) that Atlantis(or better an Atlantic-like island, according to me, because there must have been 10. This sounds much like the kingdom of the 10 Manavas) was most probably Indonesia, the Sunda shelve. The Gates of Hercules are situated in the east and not in Gibraltar-Africa, according to that theory. It was situated in the Sunda Streat, between the two islands of Sumatera and Jawa, if I'm not wrong. The Gates of Hercules must actually have been also in the Dvaraka of HariKrshna. The most interesting is the word Nusa. I believe that there's a connection with the Greek word Nysos in Dio-nyso.s. Dio of course is equivalent to Dyo/Dyau meaning Light/God, and Nyso.s (Greek 'y' has a slight 'u' sound) means Gate. If the word Nyso.s is connected with Nusa, then we could imagine an Island Gateway: through two islands in the Sunda streat. About Suprabha If she's grouped with Mainaka, who was always an Apsara, then Suprabha must've been one also. Then Vidyadharis must have been a section of Apsarasas. She can't be the daughter of Indra, because he was not a Vidyadhara, but an Aditya. Arjuna had through his grandfather Vyasa connection with the Indra section of Vasishthas (another was the Mitravaruna section). That's why he's probably compared with Indra, and farther away with God, named as Indra.