FromDr. N.R.Joshi (USA)
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Question of Dr. Dipak Bhattacharya on Kuru and Kamboja.
There is no inscription of his saying Indians were his cousins. However there are inscriptions in Iranian mountains of Cyrus the Great (Kurosh or Kuruh) calling himself Kshatriya. Moreover there are so many books on the ancient Persian Empire, anybody can find information . I read many books so I also read about his activity of expanding empire. It is Darius the Great expanded empire up to lower Sindhu. This satrapy was called Hindus. Next satrapy was Harahati (Sarasvati) and eighteen more satrapies. Persian wars with Greece were going on for two hundred years from 539 BC t0 326 BC. In Xerex's pan Asian army marching towards Greece, the contingent of chariots belonged to Indians. Army was marching for two months. Xerexes was standing in the chariot of white horses.People were sitting on trees by the side of roads to watch march of Persian army . This looked like mini-Mahabharat of known history. Darius III sent message to Indians from Gandhar to come to his help against Alexander's march towards east. Unfortunately Indians did not go. As a result of neglecting our ancient brothers, Alexander reached Porus kingdom. People fighting with Alexander in eastern Afghanistan were Shakas, Bactrians (Vaahlikas of Mahabharat), Panchalas and Kambojas. It is your choice to make Mahabharat Maha over Asia or mini in the villages of Uttar Prades and Haryana. Thanks. N.R.Joshi.
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<However there are inscriptions in Iranian mountains of Cyrus the Great (Kurosh or Kuruh) calling himself Kshatriya> |
Thanks for the mail. The Old Persian Inscriptions are quite famous and Indian students specializing in Veda or Linguistics,(also Epigraphy) have to study them, at least in some Universities. So I was curious about an ancient Iranian emperor speaking of cousinship with Indians. Only three inscriptions of Cyrus the Great (Kūruš 559-529 BCE) have been found, namely, Kent’s Cma,CMb and CMc. The word he uses for ‘king’ is xšāyaθiya which is found in all the three inscriptions. Any word relating to Sanskrit kṣatriya /kṣatra occurs in Darius’ two inscriptions (DB and DBe of Kent) as XšaƟrita. Its connotation is not known. But this is the name of a Median rebel. It is quite possible that the person was not a Persian but belonged to the Western most region of the Vedic speaking people. Cf. the name Parodasmahe Dāštāγnoiš (Yt.13.125) Skt. Parodasmasya Dāttāgneḥ- ‘of Parodasma, the son of Dattāgni’ said of a believer whose own name was Parodasma. Since the word agni is absent in the Avesta and Old Persian this ‘son of Dattāgni’ must have been either a Vedic Indian turned Zoroastrian or some Central Asian Aryan i.e not an Iranian proper. In spite of linguistic proximity there was great animosity between the Vedic and the Iranian people. This has been and can still be proved with new evidences. |
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