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Re: A Request to Vishal [Re: venky] #12897 - 03/03/02 01:39 PM Edit Reply Quote

Dear Venkat, I don't think there's any proof of the Kassites to have come from Central Asia. But entering the Iranian mountains, they could have come from either way: east or west. There's not one evidence of people migrating in that second millennium towards the subcontinent. Not archeologically, not ethnically (DNA research). And certainly not textually, neither from the Avesta nor from the Vedic sources. The Sarasvati as moving from mountain to sea is mentioned in the VII th Mandala of the RigVeda. This was only the case before 3500 BC, according to geologists. The Sarasvati changed course (some say 4 times in total) towards the Indus. The oldest legends of India have nothing to do even with northwestern India, but with eastern UP: Manu established Ayodhya, Ikshvaku became the first Solar King. Pururavas Aila became the second ruler of the Lunar Dynasty of Pratishthana-Prayaga. This dynasty ruled moved also towards Kashi (king Kshrattravridhha Ayusha) and Kannauj (Amavasu Paururavasa). A son of Ikshvaku became the king of Videha-Mithilla in NW-Bihar. Far later than king Sagara of Ayodhya, when the Bharatas ruled and moved from Pratishthana to Panchala, they were present in western UttarPradesh and later in Haryana. King Sudas fought battles on the Yamuna but also on the Parushni in the Panjab. His descendants, especially Sahadeva (Hushdiv in the Avesta) and Somaka (Haumaka) fought with the proto-Iranian in southern Afghanistan. The Kuru-Bharatas were expelled from Hastinapura, but Samvarana came back from the Sindhu area to Kurukshetra. With the Kurus we enter in the Brahmana Age, and the Samhita is a fact. In the end of the Kuru Dynasty we enter the Mahabharata War. The Arya are rather moving from the east towards the west. Their most holy places are in the north (Himalayas-Meru), east (Ayodhya and Jahnavi-Ganga, Yamuna and Sarayu) and later in the west (Sarasvati during the Bharatas) and again in the east (after the drought of the Sarasvati). The period of the Indus Valley is the Sutra period of post-Vedic times. The Baudhayana Sutra mentions for the first time the word Aratta for the Panjab. That name is found in Sumer in the 2nd millennium for the Panjab. The word Miluhha sounds like a Prakrit one, on par with the word Milakkha (Mleccha). The Sindhu-Sarasvati Period is the period of Prakrita stage. The linguist dr. S. Mishra has done much research on this. From every corner the AIT is shaky to be come completely history soon, but stubbornly supported by some investigators. I don't know why.