History of Vedic Punjab and Indian Civilization: A Review with Thanks to Bent Lorentzen: Why Punjab is the Defender of Natural World and Indian Civilization
I
have done intensive research from my childhood about history of India
and world. It is for my research works on Indian Civilizations, and
found that Aryan Invasion seems a false
theory to mislead people when European have greater political and thus
ruling powers. Based on all works and description that are preserved
from
Vedic Literature to latest that we know as Shri
Guru Granth Sahib,
the
Holy Book of Sikhs (
http://www.searchgurbani.com/guru_granth_sahib/int... )
as authority over mythology and history. It talks and discusses
everything based on the Quantum Physics and presence of Arts that we
know as Classical
Indian Arts and present in the other parts of the
world.
These
Classical Arts always has been gained by all sages,
saints and spirituals without teachers. This very thing is known as if
gift from the Spirit. The knowledge has ego as its root of action and
that needs accepting something or some authority as teacher, the Guru.
For example even Lord Rama and Krishna, who were masters of 14 and 16
Classical Arts requested the master of each art as their gurus.
We
are left with least of these classical arts alive with their major and
minor classes and categories in the Modern Indian Civilization and World
in general.
These Gurus, the teachers who help to receive the
gifts from the spirit to preserve the natural world. This natural world
is thus considered the Visible Form of God. Thus, all of it helps
preserve all the Arts that go into Genes and also creates an
Environment keeping Natural World as we know it naturally due to harmony and coexistence while also being in commune.
Many people in the modern age, particularly in the
west consider the Teacher-taught as if a theory that Indians follow to
keep the Civilization alive. We have this very teacher-taught relation
for all faculties of human knowledge and wisdom. It spreads into animal
kingdom and green world, and thus to the natural world. The
Natural
World is thus considered a teacher in its own open school.
The
incomparable respect is given to the mother as she simply does not just
conceives a sperm that has been preserved and developed by nature in
male but also in the womb in which the same nature nurtures the same
sperm within the egg. This comes out as a human body and other forms
among the mammals. As the 4 kinds of life include sweat (perspiration),
placenta, vegetation (With thanks from the source:
http://www.sikhnet.com/news/water-and-origin-life )
It
thus also includes the scientific discussions from creation of the
universes to invasions of the Mughals embrace that from the Vedas to
Holy Bible, Holy Quran and some other modern scriptures has not been put
to question with deep intuitive and divine research works that we call
as finding the truth without external aids. That means after reading and
understanding everything that meets the criteria of Six Schools of
Philosophy that has been main thing in world civilization.
I have
studied his grammar of Shri Guru Granth Sahib that is in the
Gurumukhi
Script, in which
Bhai Sahib Singh has proved that the Gurmukhi Script as
the
Punjabi language is the modern form of the Sanskrit. His grammar
book also inspired me to write my own grammar book that I finished in
1996 but has never have been able to put it into publication for some
reasons. His Grammar of Gurmukhi and thus the Gurbani by itself is
written as in the Gurmukhi Script Punjabi. (With thanks from the source:
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Professor_Sahib... )
The
Punjab needs to be studied as it was as the greater Punjab embracing
entire India not just a small state as discussed below.
Vedic Punjab
(Image with thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Punjab)
Please also read it as additional point: Most of the Sikh Scriptures that describe how Shri Guru Nanak and other Gurus described Vedic Punjab as the origin of their caste and creed, the clans seem not available online and thus also being removed from religious places. It seems genocide of Indian Civilization by Modern Development that once wanted to replace all of it with the Aryan Theories. That is why we are afraid of modern changes, advanced technology and media in which the origins are put as if world did not exist before say 5000 years.
Now, let us correlate: "The Khatris are a prominent Indian community originally from the Potohar and Majha region of the north-western Indian subcontinent, now largely in Punjab in Pakistan. This region is of considerable historical significance in the development of the Indian culture since the composition of the Vedas and classics like the Mahabharata, Ramayana and Puranas. Genetic tests demonstrate that Aroras, Khatris, and Rajputs are strongly clustered together. Genetically they are closer to Brahmin than to Vaish and Scheduled Castes.[6]
According to the Ramayana,[7] Taksha and Pushkala, the sons of Bharata, the brother of Lord Rama, founded Taxila and Pushkalavati in this region. According to the Bichitra Natak written by Guru Gobind Singh around 1696 AD, Lava and Kusha, the sons of Lord Rama, founded Lahore and Kasur, and the descendants of Lava and Kusha form the Khatri Bedi and Sodhi clans.[8] An empty temple dedicated to Lava still exists in the Lahore Fort.[9]
The region was ruled by Hindu kings until 1013 AD. King Bhimapala,[10] the son of Trilochanapala Khanna, has his capital at Nandana in the Salt Range region, where many temples and archaeological relics from their period are still present. Katas Raj remained a major pilgrimage center until the partition of India. Khatris encountered hardships after the conquest of the region, but stubbornly clung to their heritage. Because of high levels of education and scholarship, they were able to survive even in difficult times.[5]
The Khatris, along with Aroras and Lohanas, engaged in trade in Central Asia.[11][12] The Hindu temples of Kabul and the Hindu Fire Temple of Baku built and maintained by them still exist.[citation needed]
Khatris are now present in all the states of India, although the major concentration remains in Punjab and the Delhi region. Khatris are of Aryan origin.[citation needed]" (With Thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedi_clan)
Thus seems the tactic of New World Order to aside Sikhs, Vedic Punjab as if something foreign to India and thus the Indian Civilization that means a movement of making new market places. It is not at all required but people when understand it know that world is in the nature and thus the natural world is what we need more than New World Order.
Vedic Punjab
The
Rig-Veda, one of the older texts in South Asia, is generally thought to
have been composed in the Greater Punjab. It embodies a literary record
of the socio-cultural development of ancient Punjab (known as Sapta
Sindhu) and affords us a glimpse of the life of its people. Vedic
society was tribal in character. A number of families constituted a
grama, a number of gramas a vis (clan) and a number of clans a Jana
(tribe). The Janas, led by Rajans, were in constant inter-tribal
warfare. From this warfare arose larger groupings of peoples ruled by
great chieftains and kings. As a result, a new political philosophy of
conquest and empire grew, which traced the origin of the state to the
exigencies of war.
An important event of the Rigvedic era was the
"Battle of Ten Kings" which was fought on the banks of the river
Parusni (identified with the present-day river Ravi) between king Sudas
of the Trtsu lineage of the Bharata clan on the one hand and a
confederation of ten tribes on the other.[5] The ten tribes pitted
against Sudas comprised five major the Purus, the Druhyus, the Anus, the
Turvasas and the Yadus—and five minor ones, origin from the
north-western and western frontiers of present-day Punjab—the Pakthas,
the Alinas, the Bhalanas, the Visanins and the Sivas. King Sudas was
supported by the Vedic Rishi Vasishtha, while his former Purohita the
Rishi Viswamitra sided with the confederation of ten tribes.[6]
Out
of such conflicts, struggles, conquests and movements of the Vedic of
the Middle and Later Vedic age emerged the Punjab, a society that laid
special stress on the value of action as depicted by their ideals and
standards in the Hindu Epics, notably the Mahabharata.
Epic Punjab
The
philosophy of heroism of the Epic Age is expounded in the Bhagavatagita
section of the Mahabharata. That work is a synthesis of many doctrines
and creeds, but its oldest core is arguably the enunciation of a martial
and heroic cult. The Bhagavatagita expounds a philosophy of heroism
probably current in the then Punjab. It provides a philosophical
foundation to the profession of arms and invests the Kshatriya or
warrior with respectable position and noble status. It canonizes his
professional integrity and injects an intensity of purpose into it. The
exploits of the civilization can be seen in the accounts of the charges
of the Kauravas against the Pandavas. The epic says that the contingents
of Gandharas, Kambojas, Sauviras, Madras and Trigartas occupied key
positions in the Kaurava arrays throughout the epic war.[7]
Another
important event that involved the Punjabis was the conflict between the
Indo-Aryan Rishi Vishwamitra of the Kurukshetra area and Sage Vasishtha
from the north-western parts of greater Punjab (i.e., the region
extending from Swat/Kabul in the west to Delhi in the east).[8][9] The
story emerges in the Rigveda and more clearly later Vedic texts and is
portrayed in the Bala-Kanda section of the Valmiki Ramayana. The epic
conflict is said to have been sparked over the re-possession of
Kamadhenu, also known as Savala, a divine cow by Vishwamitra from a
Brahmana sage of the Vasishtha lineage. Rsi Vasishtha solicited the
military support of the frontier Punjabi warriors consisting of eastern
Iranians—the Shakas, Kambojas, Pahlavas, etc., aided by Kirata, Harita
and the Mlechcha soldiers from the Himalayas. This composite army from
frontier Punjab ruined one Akshauni army of Vishwamitra, along with all
of his 100 his sons except one.[10] Indologists like Dr H. C.
Raychadhury, Dr B. C. Law, Dr Satya Shrava and others see in these
verses the glimpses of the struggles of the Aryans with the mixed
invading hordes of the barbaric Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas etc.
from the north-west.[11][12][13][14] The time frame for these struggles
is said to be the 2nd century BCE. Raychadhury fixes the date of the
present version of the Valmiki Ramayana around/after 2nd century CE.[15]
Punjab during Buddhist times
The
Buddhist text Anguttara Nikaya[16] mentions Gandhara and Kamboja among
the sixteen great countries (Solas Mahajanapadas) which had evolved
in/and around Jambudvipa prior to Buddha's times. Pali literature
further endorses that only Kamboja and Gandhara of the sixteen ancient
political powers belonged to the Uttarapatha or northern division of
Jambudvipa but no precise boundaries for each have been explicitly
specified. Gandhara and Kamboja are believed to have comprised the upper
Indus regions and included Kashmir, eastern Afghanistan and most of the
western Punjab which now forms part of Pakistan.[17] At times, the
limits of Buddhist Gandhara had extended as far as Multan while those of
Buddhist Kamboja comprised Rajauri/Poonch, Abhisara and Hazara as well
as eastern Afghanistan including valleys of Swat and Kunar and Kapisa
etc. Michael Witzel terms this region as forming parts of the Greater
Punjab. Buddhist texts also mention that this northern region especially
the Kamboja was renowned for its quality horses & horsemen and has
been regularly mentioned as the home of horses.[18] However,
Chulla-Niddesa, another ancient text of the Buddhist canon substitutes
Yona for Gandhara and thus lists the Kamboja and the Yona as the only
Mahajanapadas from Uttarapatha[19] This shows that Kamboja had included
Gandhara at the time the Chulla-Niddesa list was written by Buddhists.
Pāṇinian and Kautiliyan Punjab
Pāṇini
was a famous ancient Sanskrit grammarian born in Shalātura, identified
with modern Lahur near Attock in the Northwest Frontier Province of
Pakistan. One may infer from his work, the Ashtadhyayi, that the people
of Greater Punjab lived prominently by the profession of arms. That text
terms numerous clans as being "Ayudhajivin Samghas" or "Republics
(oligarchies) that live by force of arms". Those living in the plains
were called Vahika Samghas,[20] while those in the mountainous regions
(including the north-east of present-day Afghanistan) were termed as
Parvatiya Samghas (mountaineer republics).[21] According to an older
opinion the Vahika Sanghas included prominently the Vrikas (possibly
modern Virk Jatts), Damanis, confederation of six states known as
Trigarta-shashthas, Yaudheyas (modern Joiya or Johiya Rajputs and some
Kamboj), Parsus, Kekayas, Usinaras, Sibis[22] (possibly modern Sibia
Jatts?), Kshudrakas, Malavas, Bhartas, and the Madraka clans,[23] while
the other class, styled as Parvatiya Ayudhajivins, comprised among
others partially the Trigartas, Darvas, the Gandharan clan of
Hastayanas,[24] Niharas, Hamsamaragas, and the Kambojan clans of
Ashvayanas[25] & Ashvakayanas,[26] Dharteyas (of the Dyrta town of
the Ashvakayans), Apritas, Madhuwantas (all known as Rohitgiris), as
well as the Daradas of the Chitral, Gilgit, etc. In addition, Pāṇini
also refers to the Kshatriya monarchies of the Kuru, Gandhara and
Kamboja.[27] These Kshatriyas or warrior communities followed different
forms of republican or oligarchic constitutions, as is attested to by
Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi.
The Arthashastra of Kautiliya, whose oldest
layer may go back to the 4th century BCE also talks of several martial
republics and specifically refers to the [Kshatriya Srenis
(warrior-bands) of the Kambojas, Surastras and some other frontier
tribes as belonging to varta-Shastr-opajivin class (i.e., living by the
profession of arms and varta), while the Madraka, Malla, the Kuru, etc.,
clans are called Raja-shabd-opajivins class (i.e., using the title of
Raja).[28][29][30][31][32] Dr Arthur Coke Burnell observes: "In the
West, there were the Kambojas and the Katas (Kathas) with a high
reputation for courage and skill in war, the Saubhuties, the Yaudheyas,
and the two federated peoples, the Sibis, the Malavas and the
Kshudrakas, the most numerous and warlike of the Indian nations of the
days".[33][34] Thus, it is seen that the heroicraditions cultivated in
Vedic and Epic Age continued to the times of Pāṇini and Kautaliya. In
fact, the entire region of Greater Punjab is known to have reeked with
the martial people. History strongly witnesses that these Ayudhajivin
clans had offered stiff resistance to the Achaemenid rulers in the 6th
century, and later to the Macedonian invaders in the 4th century BC.
According
to History of Punjab: "There is no doubt that the Kambojas, Daradas,
Kaikayas, Madras, Pauravas, Yaudheyas, Malavas, Saindhavas and Kurus had
jointly contributed to the heroic tradition and composite culture of
ancient Punjab".[35][36]
Please read more about it including the following:
Invasions:
Persian domination
Alexander's invasion
Maurya Empire
Indo-Greek kingdom
The Shahi Kingdoms and the Muslim invasions
The Delhi Sultanate and Mughal empire (Main article: Mughal Empire)
The rule of the Sikhs
The British in Punjab
The Punjab of Republic of India and Pakistan
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History of Vedic Punjab and Indian Civilization: A Review with Thanks
to Bent Lorentzen: Why Punjab is the Defender of Natural World and
Indian Civilization has been inspired by a wonderful wallpost by Bent Lorentzen having the
most beuatiful words showing reverence for natural world as: "...the
mother's side of the family into deep history, it additionally means
that all life, the land and habitat systems that support life, is
considered the deepest mother, again deeply reinforcing an indellible
love, respect, connectivity and desire to preserve their habitat's
ecosystem... and this is also reflected in the way many tribes and clans
encourage their young to study the sciences that have to do with
ecology." (
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