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Re: Definition of Hindu
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Subject: Re: Definition of Hindu
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From: jai@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 02:03:06 GMT
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About the word Hindu:
(Excerpt)
"HINDU" DOES NOT COME FROM "SINDHU"
How many times have you explained that the name of
your religion is a concoction invented by the Persians
who called the people who lived beyond the Sindhu River
"Hindus," mispronouncing the "S?
Recant.
A. Krishna Kumar of Hyderabad, India, explains.
"This [Sindhu/Hindu] view is untenable since Indians at
that time enviably ranked highest in the world in terms
of civilization and wealth would not have been without a
name. They were not the unknown aborigines waiting to
be discovered, identified and Christened by foreigners."
He cites a more solid argument from the book
Self-Government in India by N. B. Pavgee, published in
1912. The author tells of an old Swami and Sanskrit
scholar Mangal Nathji, who found an ancient Puran known
as Brihannaradi in the Sham village, Hoshiarpur, Punjab.
It contained the verse:
HIMALAYAM SAMARABHYA YAVAT BINDUSAROVARAM
HINDUSTHANAMITI QYATAM HI ANTARAKSHARAYOGATAH
Kumar translates it as:
"The country lying between the Himalayan mountain
and Bindu Sarovara (Cape Comorin sea) is known as
Hindusthan by combination of the first letter `hi' of
`Himalaya' and the last compound letter `ndu' of the
word `Bindu.'" SOURCE: Hinduism Today, April 1992.
(End of excerpt)
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*-=Om Shanti=-* Jai Maharaj
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