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Re: ARTICLE : hindu is not our word !
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To: ghen@netcom.com
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : hindu is not our word !
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From: "Dr. Jai Maharaj" <jai@aloha.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:46:31 -1000 (HST)
In article <ghenE0spK4.8t9@netcom.com>,
of Wed, 13 Nov 1996 06:19:16 UTC,
shrinath@ifu.ifu.net (Hari Om) wrote:
> . . . Hindu came from ...misspoken SINDHU river
> civilization as INDUS ...and then . . .
Here are excerpts from Hinduism Today according to
which it is evident that "Hindu" *is* our word:
"'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."'"
End of excerpts from Hinduism Today
Jai Maharaj jai@aloha.com jai@eskimo.com jai@mantra.com
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