Origin of Hindu Second Part Arya Never Was Aryan

By Dibyendu Chakraborty

It has been observed in the previous book titled ‘Origin of Hindu √ The Name’ that the dictum of going, moving forward became the central tenet of a huge number of human beings who essentially were the residents of India. Those people were termed as Hindu.   Even when the root of that concept is logically proven, then also a question crops up and remains unanswered. Why did the act of going, moving forward become so important that a large number of people needed to accept it as the guiding principle of their lives? No tangible evidence has been found of any coercive actions on the part of the propagators of that way of life, not even in the folklores or in the legends. The adherence in all probability was voluntary and self-imposed.   For that happening, two broad categories of influences may be credited to: physical and/or cerebral.   The physical environment of the land in reference was set by the actions and interactions of the geological forces.   Cerebral input must have come from some knowledge base. Structured and recorded knowledge base that is unique to India is found in the Vedas and its annotations.   The period, during which the geological timeline shows that that land was becoming ready for human inhabitation, was the time around which the trace of the oldest literature of that land may be found. A little later, the world came to know about the existence of a human settlement in that land, which was more splendorous than anything known to the Greeks, who were the most advanced ones in the known world up to that time.   This book finds the relationship between the geological formation of the Ganga Plain and the propagation of a new way of life that would be known as ‘Hindu’ religion in later time.   It has been established that the word ‘Arya’ is a Sanskrit word that means ‘the son of the Rishi’ and no large human movement that may be termed as invasion, migration etc. needed to be introduced to explain what have happened in that land duri

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Apr 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9783748762744

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Preface

It has been observed in the previous book titled ‘Origin of Hindu √ The Name’ that the dictum of going, moving forward became the central tenet of a huge number of human beings who essentially were the residents of India. Those people were termed as the Hindu. Even when the root of this concept is logically proven, then also a question arises and remains unanswered. Why did the act of going, moving forward become so important that a large number of people needed to accept it as the guiding principle of their lives? Nobody put a sword on their necks to adopt that way of life and nobody hanged a lollipop in front of their hungry cavum oris for that purpose. No tangible evidence has been found of any such occurrences, not even in the folklore or in the legends. That adherence, in all probability, was voluntary and self-imposed.

For that happening, two broad categories of influences might be credited to, physical and/or cerebral.

The physical environment of the land in reference was shaped by the actions and interactions of the geological forces.

Concerned cerebral input must have originated from some knowledge base. Structured and recorded knowledge base that is unique to India has been found in the Vedas and its annotations.

Chapter One – Introduction

Mainstream academicians let us know that the traceable history of the Ganga Plain can throw light up to a period of 2500 years BP. Before that period many references may be found, the presence of which is undeniable, but the time range of their coming into existence may not be conclusively finalized with the presently available tools and techniques. The most important ones of such type of references are the Vedas, the Ramayan and the Mahabharat.

When the description of the historical accounts of around 2500 years BP is looked into, then it comes to knowledge that the standard of the human settlements in that place mesmerized even the visitors from the most matured and advanced Greek empire of that time. That chapter of the recorded history must have had its antecedents. A very advanced human society cannot appear from the thin air overnight. But till date a verifiable sketch of the events before that period of that land could not be drawn.

Traceable history of some of the other parts of the Indian subcontinent can throw light much farther back in time, in the form of the Indus Civilisation, for which archaeological evidences are present.

Various caves in India, like Bhimbetka in the Central Indian Highland in Madhya Pradesh and Billa Surgam in the Andhra Pradesh, stand witness to the presence of human beings at such a period, which seems to be unbelievably old.

Leaving all such pan-India happenings aside, when the spotlight of history is directed to the Ganga Plain, then 2500 years BP is the period around which traceable historical accounts may be found. Naturally, an indeterminate phase of the historical timeline of that area is present where the searchlight based on the scientific findings could be focused.

Up to the chapter four of this work, the focus has been concentrated on the scientific findings that have been accumulated till date related to the Ganga Plain. In the succeeding two chapters, effort has been put to apply those scientific findings to untangle the mysterious past of that area.

Human beings, by their biological construct, are capable of moving. All over the world, people have been moving from place to place since time immemorial. It is quite obvious for the question to come to mind that why such action was assumed so much of importance in the Vedic Indian context? That is a very natural question, which should appear in the minds of the interested. The childlike simplicity associated with that physical action may sometimes create derision about that way of life itself.  A deep search may be needed to find out the importance of that physical action in the context of ancient India to find out a viable answer to that query. Can a physical investigation be installed today in that regard that may provide unquestionable proof? The answer to that question is ‘no’. Installation of an enquiry of that type is not feasible. Whatever to be investigated has to be done through the process of logical deduction based on the foundation of accepted findings, vetted by the scientific community. That process necessarily has to be a conceptual one.

How many entities may be assigned to the act of human movement? The answer is, basically, two. One is the human being, the wanderer, and the other is the geographical area that needs to be trodden. No historical account is available that shows that any or all the human beings present within the territory of India were of such unique construct that mobility was a problem for them. Very early in the history of the human existence, people created settlements in a major part of that land and that process embraced the nearby island systems also. Experts tell us that some findings suggest that the presence of people on that land may be traced back up to around 40000 years BP. The caves of Billa Surgam at Banganapalli in the Kurnool District of the present-day Indian state of Andhra Pradesh contain evidences of the existence of such people. It is said that those evidences indicate the presence of human beings in that area during the middle or upper Paleolithic era. That is a very old time. The paleolithic era started 2.5 million years ago (25 lakh years). The middle of the Paleolithic era mathematically indicates 1.2 million (12-lakh) years BP. In a subject-specific reference, that period refers to 300000 years BP to 50000 years BP. Those people overcame all the hurdles that appeared in their journey. Thus, their physical ability to move was beyond any question.

The remaining entity that is involved in the process of human movement is the geography of the concerned territory on which people move. To understand the importance of the dictum of moving forward, one needs to make a mental sketch of the condition of that land that was present at the time of the perceived Vedic period, based on the accepted scientific findings. That perspective has been given little attention till date.

Chapter Two – Creation of the Ganga Plain

An outline of the Ganga Basin

A shroud of mysteries is associated with the geography of India that lies in between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas. On the cerebral front, the sudden appearance of an unparalleled intellectual attainment in the form of the Vedas did happen that could not be linked to any traceable human settlement. Neither any antecedent of those creations could be found. On the geological front, after applying all the tools, techniques, knowledge, etc., which is at the disposal of the modern man, the formation of the present structure of that area could not be explained fully. That difficulty of explanation becomes more evident when the geographical developments are tried to be tallied with the geological timeline.  That area is known as the Ganga Plain.

An ancient Indian creation known as Vishnu Puran (time of creation and origin cloaked in mystery, but no doubt is there that it is a very old creation) contains the following:

हिमालयं समारभ्य यावदिंदुसरोवरम् ।

तं देवनिर्मितं देशं हिंदुस्थानं प्रचक्ष्यते ।।

Which in English may be expressed as, The land created by the Gods and stretching from the Himalayas to the ‘Indu Ocean’ is called Hindusthanam.

Professor Indra Bir Singh (I B Singh), Department of Geology, Lucknow University, published a paper titled ‘Geological Evolution of Ganga Plain – An Overview’, in the Journal of ‘The Palaeontological Society of India’, in Volume 41, pages 99-137. From the pages 99 and 101 of that publication, it may be learnt that the Ganga basin, a dented formation on which the Ganga Plain proper is formed, covers an area approximately 250,000 square kilometres that is situated within Longitude 77°E and 88°E and Latitude 24°N and 30°N. The drainage basin of the Ganga Plain covers an area of 10,60,000 square kilometres.

The Ganga Plain is the major constituent of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and constitutes more than half of