Do u know how our country get its name, and how secular we were and are..? History speaks that in ancient time our civilization “Sindhu” Ghati Sabhyata (Indus Velly Civilization) was very rich and developed due to the fertile land near River Sindhu. it was one of the oldest civilization that had developed language, alphabets and a beautiful nature worshiping way of life.

  • It is said that later when Paras todays Iran have developed its language , writing and other things, and when trade have started, then they were getting difficulties to pronounce the sanskrit word Sindhu due to their farsi way of speaking. Then the peoples of paras and other arabs started stating Sindhu as “HINDU”. In urdu and farsi the word “stan” means ‘land of’. Therefore they started calling the land of hindus as #Hindustan..
  • In the same way when greeks started expanding all over the world, they had named this great Sindhu culture as ‘indus’. Indus is just the english form of Sindhu. Therefore later the ‘Sindhu Ghati Sabhyata’ named as “Indus Valley Civilization”, and the people who follow the culture of sindhu were known as Indians and the land of Indus culture was named by Greeks and other europeans as #India..
  • Similarly the problem that was with persians was also faced by chinese , mongolians, and countries of East China Sea had faced due to their Mandarian way of speaking. Their mandarian way of speaking didn’t allow them to speak the sanskrit word Sindhu so easily. So they started speaking Sindhu as “Yindu”. Similarly the mandarian word “Gero” means ‘land of’. So they have started speaking the land of Yindus as #Yindu_Gero.
  • Even today when the world says this country as Hindustan, India they clearly mean that this country is of the native indians who follow sindhu culture(hinduism) or Dharm.But do you know according to sindhus and native indians what this country called as, and how secular we were.In an ancient Indian text Shri Vishnu Puran it is written that: “Mahasagar ke uttar mein aur himalaya parvat ke dakshin me sthit yah desh #BHARATVARSHA jisse dushyant aur devi sakuntala ke putra “Bharat” ne sarvocha banaya hai, yaha ussi ke vansaz rhte hai”.”The land that is situated to north of ocean and south of the Himalayas is known as Bharatvarsha. It is inhabited by the sons of Bharata. … From north to south, it expands over 1000 Yojanas.In its east are situated Kiratas and in west are situated Yavanas”.

Remember always that we never viewed Bhartvarsha as the country only of hindus, it is u n the world who had always viewed it as land of hindus, even today the arabs and muslims call Bharatvarsha as hindus tan, even today europeans call Bhratvarsha as India, and even today chinese call bhratvarsha as Yindu Gero . Shri Vishnu Puran is most ancient text of Bhartvarsha which is also said as religious hindu text never says it is only of hindus.

Great civilizations die from suicide, no power can kill it.

The Sindhu River is one of the great holy rivers of India, from which the name of India is derived. However, unlike other holy rivers in India such as the Ganga, Yamuna and Sarasvati, the Sindhu is masculine.

The Sindhu is virtually unknown to people in western countries, but for the people of India it has great significance. Indeed, the Sindhu gave birth to the earliest of India’s civilizations known as the Indus Valley Civilization. For those readers who know their history, then the names of ancient cities and archaeological digs at places like Harappa and Mohenjo-daro will be familiar — the land of the ‘Aryan Invasion’ – a topic of much debate, even after more than 200 years of research and scholarly studies.

However in every research, scientist have founded so many things of ancient India. But nothing they can found like weopens or swords or anything. Which gives a role that ‘if’ aryans have came through outside the India also, Indians at that time accepted them peacefully.

No civilization can be vanish by just some rulers.

And now the research of ‘Rakhigadhi’ which was a important city in ancient Harappa and Mohen jodaro, says that their is no difference between genes of any people from afganistan to burma. According to them of aryans had invaded India, their should must be different genes in fossils of ancient indian human body, but all the genes are same. It scientifically proves that aryans were indian only i.e; north indian.

Second proof is half scientific and half on beliefs. Historians made it clear that if aryans were outsiders , then before coming to india they have completed ‘Rigved’.Rigved is said to be the best literature to understand politics, and sociology of aryans life. And in Rigved the rivers of india only india are shown with much respect. As much respect as it could be given by only indians.

But one fact is for sure — human civilization along the banks of the Sindhu River has been present since hoary antiquity. Archaeological evidence shows human habitation along the Sindhu for at least the past 17,000 years. In truth, the name Sindhu is older than civilization itself and is mentioned in the classical histories of ancient India such as the Rig Veda (170 times), the Puranas and in the Iranic Zend Avesta. On modern world maps the Sindhu is marked as the Indus.

Beginning at Lake Manasarovara, at the base of Mount Kailash (the mountain sacred to Shiva) on the eastern side of the Himalayas in what is now western China (old Tibet), the Sindhu/Indus flows westward crossing into India into the Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir. The Sindhu then takes a southerly route, traverses the plains of Pakistan and merges into the Arabian Sea near the port of Karachi – a journey of 3,180 kilometers (1,980 miles).

According to the Mahabharata (Bhisma-parva, ch.6, Verse 48) the spiritual – sometimes considered mythical – origins of the Sindhu River is stated as being due to the austerities of King Bhagiratha in Satya-yuga. Bhagiratha was attempting to free his ancestors from bad karma and their suffering in the lower planetary systems of Patala-loka. After performing his penance Bhagiratha summoned the sacred River Ganges to Earth. The Ganges descended from the heavenly planets and thereafter formed six separate rivers – three flowing to the east (the Hladini, Pavani and Nalini), and three flowing to the west (the Suchakshus, Sita and Sindhu). The seventh branch, the Ganga, then flowed from the Himalayas to Ganga-sagara, entering the Bay of Bengal, and then down to Patala-loka.

If not mythical, then the story of King Bhagiratha and the Sindhu is certainly mystical and no doubt took place a long time ago when the world was quite different.

Indeed, the etymology of the name of ‘India’ takes us on a journey back in time and is also closely associated with famous personalities in western history such as King Darius of Persia, Alexander the Great, Megasthenes and others.

In bygone days, the people living east of the Sindhu commonly referred to themselves as Aryans – a term originating from the Sanskrit word arya, a self-designation meaning “honorable, respectable and noble”. But for the Arabs, west of the Sindhu, they were the al-Hindus, and for the Persians they were the Hindus.

It only came to pass, after centuries of use, that the word Hindu came to designate a people with particular religious beliefs. In the beginning ‘Hindu’ was simply a general designation for anyone living east of, or along the banks of the Sindhu. It also came to pass that the word Hindu became Sanskritized and the land of the Hindus became known as Hindustan, meaning ‘land of the Hindus’ — a name that is still in use today in India.

Thousand of years ago the people living between the Sindhu and the Himalayas called their land Bharata-varsa, the land ruled by Maharaja Bharat (in Treta-yuga), a character of great repute who is mentioned repeatedly throughout the Puranas. Prior to the reign of Maharaja Bharata, the land of Bharata-varsa and for that matter the entire planet Earth was referred to by the Aryans as Ajanabha (thus indicating a One World Culture once upon a time).

West of the Sindhu was the empire of Persia – an empire so vast that it stretched from the Sindhu to the Mediterranean Sea. Though originally part of Bharata-varsa, Persia’s ancestors had lost their connection to Aryan culture in Bharata-varsa, and well before the time of the Mahabharata War in 3138 BCE they had become known amongst the Aryans as Yavanas. Yavana is derived from the Pali word Yona, also used to identify the Greeks. These Yavanas were also sometimes referred to as Mlechhas.

In Bharata-varsa lived two half-brothers, Vasistha Muni and Jarutha (circa 6000 BCE). The brothers quarreled over theistic issues and afterwards Jarutha traveled west of the Sindhu to present day Iran in search of converts, eventually converting a king named Vistaspa. Jarutha had a philosophy of his own liking, quite different from that found in the traditional Aryan (Vedic) literature, but in the kingdom of Vistaspa, Jarutha found acceptance. Thus began the religion of the Zoroastrians and its founder, Jarutha, became known as Zarathustra or Zoroaster.

Incidentally, for the people of China during the early period, the land between the Himalayas and the Sindhu was called ‘Yin Du’ and for the people of Japan, pre-modern India was known as ‘Tenjiku’ meaning ‘the Heavenly Center of the World’.

In his book “Indica”, while recounting the exploits of Alexander the Great, the Greek writer Megasthenes calls the mighty Sindhu the ‘Indus’ (the name still retained today). Thus Indus is a Hellenic derivative of the Persian and Arab word Hindu, from the Sanskrit Sindhu.

Greeks also called the land east of the Indus ‘Indike’ or ‘Indica’. And from the Greek we finally arrive at the English spelling ‘India’ first used by King Alfred (circa 9th Century) in his translation of the writings of Paulus Orosius, a Christian apologist (circa 375) who wrote in defense of the Pagan idea that the Roman Empire had declined due to its acceptance of Christianity.

Thus a modern nation attained her name “India” – beginning with the Sanskrit ‘Sindhu’, to the Persian ‘Hindu’, to the Hellenic ‘Indu’ and ‘Indica’, to the English, the name of India and a nationality of people was born.

In contemporary times the sentiment of many Indians is to change the Europeanized names of their cities back to their original names. Bombay has changed to Mumbai, Madras to Chennai, Bangalore to Bengaluru, Mangalore to Mangaluru and so on. One wonders then if India will eventually return to her original Sanskrit name of Bharata-varsa?

In ladakh when you do the darshan of the Sindhu River and to complete my having visited all the main holy rivers of India, namely the Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Sarasvati, Narmada, Kaveri and Sindhu. It was a rewarding experience in all respects, and as for the landscape in and around the Sindhu Valley, it was absolutely stunning – snow capped peaks, glaciers, rivers, an inland salt-water sea (Pangong Lake) and rugged mountain people of Tibetan Buddhist descent.

Mother of cultured Human Civilization- Sindhu.

Travelers such as myself have been coming to Ladakh for a very long time. Legend has it that Jesus of Nazareth traveled to India/Ladakh in his youth to study the teachings of the great Buddha. In the 19th Century, Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian aristocrat traveling in Ladakh, reportedly happened upon a remote mountain valley and visited the monastery of Hemis, belonging to the Drukpa lineage of Buddhism. There, Notovich claims to have discovered an ancient manuscript/gospel that described Jesus (Issa) as having come to Ladakh and studied with Buddhist monks. Notovitch claimed that at the monastery of Hemis he discovered the ‘Gospel of the Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men’. His story was published in French in 1894 and was later translated into German, English, Spanish and Italian — a popular book for the public, but one that created quite a stir in scholarly communities.

As far-fetched as Notovich’s story may sound to many of us, it is plausible that Jesus may have come to India at one time or another. The Third Century Christian prophet Mani (founder of Manichaeism) is well documented as having come to India and studied Buddhism – something that he later introduced into Gnostic Christianity and which flourished between the Third and Seventh Centuries. At its height Manichaeism was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire. So if Mani did it, why not Jesus?

Christian Gnostic Gospels also account the story of Jesus sending his disciple Thomas to India to preach the word of God, so it may not be absurd at all to entertain the idea that Jesus may have come to India and even to Ladakh.

We were so entangled in the ‘ganga- jamna- tehzeeb’ that we lost our real civilization- The ‘Indus Civilization’ ‘Sindhu Sabhyata’.

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