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Meaning of the word "India"

by vakibs » Fri May 18, 2007 6:13 pm

"Ambitame Sindhutame Devitame Saraswati"



The best of mothers, the best of rivers, the best of goddesses, Oh Saraswati.



This is how the Aryans addressed the mighty river that flowed through the green valleys of Rajasthan and Gujarat. As a result of tectonic plate shift, Saraswati lost its waters. The vedas are filled with hymns expressing the anguish of the Aryans at the loss of this river - their mother.



The bulk of the settlements of the majestic Harappan civilization were along the river bed of Saraswati. After they arrived, the Aryan people were as tremendously inspired by this great civilization as by the great river. Since it nurtured the civilization, the river Saraswati was equated with the very notion of culture.



Though now reduced to a tiny broken stream that dries up in the summer, the mighty Saraswati once flowed as the greatest of all rivers. But Saraswati would forever be preserved in the consciousness of India. She became the goddess of culture and learning. Vaagdevi (the goddess of speech) became another name for this river, because the ancient people knew about the equivalence of ideas and rivers.



The waters of the Saraswati got diverted to flow into the Sindhu and the Ganga, making them mightier than before. Sindhu in Sanskrit means river, and the people who lived by the banks of this mighty river are termed as Sindhu people. This got corrupted as Hindu by the Persians, and further got corrupted as Indians by the Greeks. Thus, Indians actually mean river people - the people who acknowledge the [url="http://the-redpill.blogspot.com/2007/04/r-i-v-e-r-s-p-e-e-c-h-c-o-n-g-r-u-e-n-c.html"]equivalence of rivers and ideas[/url].



The other name for these people is Bhaarateeyas, meaning the people who live in the Bharata country (bharata means dazzlingly beautiful in Sanskrit). The knowledge goddess Saraswati earned another name Bhaarati (the one who is bharata - the one who is truly beautiful). Thus, the second name for the Indians - Bhaarateeyas means " the children of Saraswati ". Due to the equivalence of rivers and ideas, the two terms Indians and Bharateeyas become equivalent. Another equivalent term would be Saaraswats. The only other people who share a similar nomenclature were the Athenians who were named after Athena (the goddess of knowledge in Greek).



Be proud of your name, my brothers and sisters.
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by rama krishna » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:35 pm

INDIA= INTELLIGENT-NATIONALISTS-DESIRING-IMPROVEMENT-AUTHORIZINGLY
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